Jarong (Achyranthes aspera Linn.)
Synonym: Centrostachys aspera, Standl. Cyathula geniculata, Lour. Desmochaeta repens, Llanos.
Family: Amaranthaceae
Description:
Terna 1 or 2 annual, erect, reaching 1 m high Stems quadrangular, green or slightly pink, branching many, a single leaf, sitting face to face, stemmed, green color, oval shape to ellipse elongated breech. Leaf length from 1.5 to 10 cm, both surfaces hairy leaves. Leaf tip blunt or fade, narrowed leaf base, the edge of the flat or slightly wavy, bone pinnate leaves. Flowers grow at the end of the stem / fork-shaped between bunches (such as rice stalks), green flowers, rounded grains of hard and sharp.
Local Name:
Jarongan, jarong lalaki, leaf sangketan, nyarang (Java).; Sui in sui, sangko nose (Sulawesi),; Rai rai, dodinga (Maluku).; Dao cao kou (China).; Devil horse whip.
Chemical nature and pharmacological effects:
Taste slightly bitter, cool. Smooth blood (blood stimulant), peluruh menstruation, strengthen the liver and kidneys, strengthens muscles, tendons and bones, anti-inflammatory, anti-toxin, peluruh urine, normalizing menstruation, hemostatik, easier childbirth.
Chemical Ingredients: Akirantin, glokosa, galactose, reilosa, ramnosa, alkaloids. Seed: Hentriakontan, sapogenin. Roots: Betain, ecdysterone, triterpenoid saponins.
Curable Disease:
Fever, heat, malaria, Enteritis, tonsils (Tonsilis), Inflammation of the lungs; Mumps, rheumatism, kidney infections, menstrual pain,; Vomiting blood, blood urine, easy childbirth, urine Stone;
Utilization:
Part used: root, whole plant.
Uses:
1. Fever, anas, malaria, enteritis.
2. Inflammation of the tonsils (tonsillitis), inflammation of the lungs (pneumonia), mumps.
3. Rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatic arthritis).
4. Urinary tract stones, kidney infection swollen.
5. Painful menstruation (dysmenorrhea), makes labor (induction of labor).
6. Vomiting blood, blood urine (haematuria).
Usage: 9 -15 grams of dried or 30 to 60 grams of fresh, boiled, drinking.
External use: pulverized; paste to place the sick or boiled water for washing. Used for drug injury, snake bite / insect, abscess (carbuncle).
How to use:
1. Mumps:
Boiled roots taste jarong, drinking, its roots are crushed and put into place that hurt.
2. Bladder stones:
Whole plants from 18 to 30 grams (fresh) or 12 to 24 grams (dried), boiled, drinking before a meal, a day one time.
3. Large abscess in the armpit (Carbuncle):
60 grams of fresh plants (in total) plus water and wine in moderation, team, drinking. Pulverized pulp, paste into a sick place.
Caution: Pregnant women are prohibited from using these herbs.
Note: the name of this plant is similar to a horse whip (Stachytarpheta jamaicensis), confusion is also made. Clearly different relatives. Other names are Achyranthes aspera devil horse whip horsewhip or Satan, in the area known as the Sunda jarong lalaki. Another name is Stachytarpheta jamaicensis light-blue snakeweed, in the Sunda region is jarong.
