carrot as a herbal remedy (image credit to aprimitivediet.com.au)

Carrot (Daucus carota), is a type of vegetables that taste sweet and are loaded with vitamin A. Besides carrots also store carbohydrates in large quantities and used to overcome various illnesses, including fever in children.

For the purposes of treatment, choose a light-colored carrots and a little brighter. This indicates that the carrot is still young and fresh. Here are a few carrots for the healing properties:

Overcoming menstrual pain

Take as many as 250 grams carrots. Wash them clean, then sliced. Add a little water and blend. Drink this mixture twice a day.

Constipation

Take two young carrots. Wash them clean and then shredded. Add two tablespoons of fresh water and a little salt, then squeezed. Drink carrot juice twice a day.

Skin smoothing

Take 2 to 3 carrots peeled clean. Wash them clean and then shredded. Use this herb for facial masks. Wait until dry, then rinse with water.

Hypertension

Take 500 grams of carrots, wash clean, then cut into pieces. Add a little fresh water and blend. Strain this mixture and drink immediately. Try to drink water routine three times a day.

Overcoming fever in children

Take 200 grams carrots, then wash clean. Grated and squeezed to earn its extract. Boil that juice water and drink after warm.

Heal burns

Mashed carrots until soft, then apply on burns. Do it as often as possible until the skin is not hot.

Cough cure

Take a carrot and then washed and shredded. Add one tablespoon of hot water and then squeezed to get juice. Add the palm sugar to taste. Mix well. Drink twice a day.

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hibiscus flower buds (hibiscus-rosa-sinensis)

Hibiscus (Kembang sepatu) that has a latin name Hibiscus rosa-sinensis hibiscus linn. Its flower containing hibiscetin, while the stem and leaves contain calcium oxalate, peroxides, fat, and protein, which is nutritious to treat bronchitis, gonorrhea, irregular menstruation, fever, fever in children, mouth sores, cough, mumps, and headaches.

Herbal remedy for bronchitis with Hibiscus

Also Hibiscus is used to cure bronchitis. The herbal ingredient as follows:
Washing two hibiscus flower buds, and being crushed until smooth.
Give 3 / 4 cups of drinking water and cooked a little salt.
Mix the ingredients until evenly distributed, press and filtered. Drink it twice a day.

The other way is, take 2-3 hibiscus flower buds, boiled with 2 glass of drinking water for 15 minutes, then filtered. The water that has been filtered, drink it twice a day.

Hibiscus/Kembang sepatu (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis hibiscus linn)

Hibiscus herbal remedy for gonorrhea

Using Hibiscus to cure gonorrhea disease, the herbal ingredient as follows:
Washing 6 hibiscus flower bud,
Boiled with three cups of water to the water remaining 3 / 4 cup.
After that, filtered and let it (condensed) for one night. Drink with honey three times a day, each 1 / 2 cup s.

Herbal remedy for irregular menstruation

For irregular menstruation problem, try to wash 3 hibiscus flower bud, and crushed until smooth. Add a glass of drinking water and a little vinegar. Next press it and filtered. Drink 2-3 times a day as much as 1 / 2 cup.

In addition to the family medicine, hibiscus can also be used as ornamental plants to decorate a our beautiful house.

Kencur / greater galingale herb

Kencur/ greater galingale herb have the property as a sputum shedding (expectorant), or clear the throat, the mucus that clog the nose, to the body, helps remove gas from the stomach, and to clear the voice.

Kencur also often used for medicinal bruise, sprain, stiff, stiff and swollen.

Further development of the show, kencur also can be used to cure asthma, rheumatism, cold, and cough. various laboratory reveal tests, kencur rhizome contain of starch (4.14%), minerals (13.73%), and volatile oil (atsiri) (0.02%) sineol form, kanil, metil acid and Penta dekaan, sinamik acid, ethyl aster, borneol , kamfene, paraeumarin, anisic acid, alkaloid, and Gom.

Here are some recipes using kencur as a herbal treatment for various purposes:

Herbal remedies for Asthma

Take three rhizomes of kencur/ greater galingale herb that are still fresh, about 30 grams. Once washed clean, then shredded and pressed. Kencur water is then mixed with two-tablespoon of honey and a locally grown chicken egg. Shake ingredients are then let it briefly, and drink it.

Herbal remedies for fatigue

Take one rhizome of kencur which is still fresh and quite large. Roughly sliced. Take one spoon of rice flour that has been soaked in water about 1 hour, and one-piece palm sugar or coconut sugar, and one finger joint tamarind. All materials and then be added with a glass (250 cc) of hot water, blender it, and then being filtered. Drink the ingredient. For maximum results, do three times a day.

Herbal remedies for rheumatism

One ounce of kencur / greater galingale herb, 1 / 2 ounce kedawung seeds, and 1 / 2 ounce of ginger (diced), and 1 ounce of rice powder. All material boiled with two glasses of water to stay a glass. Once appointed, wait until hot, then filtered. Add lemon and one-teaspoon of honey. Drink this concoction twice a day, each half a glass.

Herbal remedies for cold

To treat a cold, a thumbs of kencur / greater galingale herb rhizome, peeled finely, and eaten with salt as much as needed. Then drink one glass of warm freshwater water. This can be done two times a day.

Herbal remedies for smoothen the menstruation

Prepare two thumb of kencur rhyzome, one sheet of trengguli leaf, one sheet of old clove fruit seeds, and adas pulawaras as much as needed. Kencur / greater galingale herb is chopped, then mixed with other materials. Boil in three glasses of water and boil until only two glasses. Filter and drink twice a day, each a glass.

Herbal remedies for diarrhea

Two thumbs of kencur rhizome being shredded, add salt as much as needed. press and filter it, then apply to the stomach as a powder.

Herbal remedies for water bug

Take a kencur rhizome (large enough), then be split. rub in between the legs that is exposed by a water bug..

Herbal remedies for headache

Take 3 – 5 sheets of kencur leaf, pound it until smooth, and then apply (as a compress) to the forehead.

In fact many kencur / greater galingale herb property has not been revealed. A research conducted by the University of Airlangga, Surabaya, state the benefits of kencur as a natural sun screen. P-ethyl compound and metoksisinamat of kencur shows the activity as a sun screen, although less eligible because most are dissolved in the water and cause irritation. Read more any posts in the “Herbal Skin Care | Kencur / greater galingale herb as a Natural Sunscreen”.

Nutmeg came from the plant family of Myristicaceae. Wooden tree with high reach 15 meters. have a thick pulp in whitish color, taste bitter and contain a lot of sap.

Based on the results of research conducted by the National Science and Technology Authority, in his book “Guidebook on the proper use of medicinal plants, nutmeg contains of chemical compound useful for health.

Skin of nutmeg meat contain of volatile oil, samak substances. In addition to the both compounds, the mace also contain starch substances. While the nutmeg seed oil has volatile oil, saponin, miristisin, elemisi, lipase enzyme, pectin, limonene, and oleanolat acid, which is high.

Almost all the nutmeg trees can be used as drugs to cure diseases, such as: flatulence (intestinal or stomach gas), insomnia, as a stomachic (smooth digestion and improve appetite to eat), carminative (expedite disposal gas proselytizer stomach), antiemetic (the feeling of nausea, queasy) , and relieve menstrual pain and rheumatism.

A fresh nutmeg be intoxicating if eaten too much because it contains miristicin. In the nutmeg seed there is a red membrane. This membrane is called fuli. Fuli oil can be taken as “oil of mace.” Most of the fuli oil used to various spices, sauce and food preserves. Few used for rube facient drugs and skin warmer, in the form of ointment and embrocation.

following some herbal medicine compound made from nutmeg plants:

Herbal remedies to ease menstrual pain

Prepare a half teaspoon of grated nutmeg, 1 clove fruit, half a finger of turmeric, 7coriander of grains. Boil all ingredients together with a glass of water to the remaining half-glass. While drinking herb is warm. Drink twice a day.

Prepare one-teaspoon nutmeg seed is fine, 2 cm turmeric, coriander six grains, two grains clubs, and a glass of water. Mixed all ingredients and boiled with water until a small fire to stay half. Filter and drink while warm.

Herbal remedies as vomiting medicine

• Take one-teaspoon of nutmeg seed powder
• salt as much as needed

Nutmeg seeds powder is boiled in warm water and added salt as much as needed. Drink this concoction together with its sediment.

Herbal remedies to cure insomnia

• Mixed one teaspoon nutmeg seed
• A glass of fresh milk
• One spoon honey
• Sugar as much as needed

Boil milk until boiling. Mix the seeds and nutmeg fine, honey and rock sugar. Mix, filter and drink while warm.

Herbal remedies for difficult sleep problem

One-teaspoon nutmeg seed powder mixed with a few drops of water. Be smeared in this herb brow.

Herbal remedies to cure an ulcer and flatulence (intestinal or stomach gas)

Prepare 100 ml of warm water, mixed with 1 teaspoon of nutmeg and two fine powder, and two-teaspoons of stone banana. Drink together with its sediment while warm. The treatment should be repeated until healed.

Take 25 grams of black Ginger rhizome (curcumae aeruginosae rhizoma)
20 grams greater galingale / kencur rhizome (Kaempferia galangal).
20 grams of turmeric
2 segment of tamarind

Boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc, and filtered. drink while warm.

Black Ginger (curcumae aeruginosae rhizoma)

Clean up the blood after the birth

Wash clean two thumb of black ginger rhizome, remove the skin. pound until smooth, add half a cup of hot water, and poke until evenly distributed. after cold, filtered with a clean cloth and water simultaneously. do for three hours after meals.

Take 25 grams of black ginger rhizome. boiled with water until the remaining 400 cc 200 cc, and filtered. add the honey if necessary. drink while warm.

As expectorant

washing 25 grams of fresh black ginger rhizome and sliced thinly. Boiled with two glasses of water to boil for 20 minutes. After cold, filtered, and divided the two lots to drink in the morning and afternoon. can also add the ginger in the ingredients.

Please try this herb, and prove the benefit of black ginger as a Menstruation Painful Abating Agent.