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Red Onion for Health

Not complete it if seasoned vegetables without spices. It makes the taste more delicious vegetables and increase appetite. One of the ingredients required in Indonesian cuisine is the onion and garlic. And many Indonesian dishes are equipped with a sprinkling of fried onions.

In addition to adding a savory, red onions also have efficacy in healthcare. My grandmother often use red onion as a healer child fever. Its use is very simple: to grate the onion until soft and then smeared on the forehead and the child's head. As laid compress fever.

Aside from being a drug fever, red onions can also be useful for:

1. Cure constipation

Fibers contained in the onion helps remove toxins and hard food particles trapped in the intestine. If you suffer from constipation, do not hesitate to eat raw onion.

2. The problem of bleeding

Red onion is one panacea to cure hemorrhoids or piles. In fact, it can be also used to treat bleeding in the nose. Quite easy really. Sliced onion and slowly inhale the smell.

3. Controlling diabetes

Eating raw onion can increase insulin production. So, if you suffer from diabetes, eat salad onions on a regular basis.

4. Protect the heart

Consumption of raw onion on a regular basis can protect the heart from the dangers of coronary disease. These foods also control high blood pressure and open the blocked artery.

5. Controlling cholesterol levels

This herbal food can control cholesterol by reducing bad cholesterol (LDL). Red onions also contain methylallyl sulfide and sulfur amino acids that can lower bad cholesterol and increase good cholesterol (HDL).

6. Prevent Cancer

Shallots have a lot of sulfur compounds. Sulfur can protect the body from cancer of the stomach, breast, lung, colon, and prostate. Eating raw garlic also helps cure urinary tract disorders.

Do not like to eat raw onions? Relax, there are many ways to outsmart. One of them by mixing raw onion slices in a salad or make hamburger toppings.

Efficacy Noni for Health

Beneath noni ugly and smelly, it turns Noni has many benefits for health. Noni plant is an annual plant (perennial) which shaped shrubs, with a height of between 3-8 m. Stems of plants hard and woody grow up and have a lot of branching. Branches grow horizontally with the direction of exit crop canopy. Leaves including single leaf, consisting of one leaves each of the petiolus. Leaf-shapedoval, with a length of 10-40 cm and a width between 15-17 cm, depending on the level of fertility of crops.

The most important part of the plant in everyday life leaves and fruit. Noni leaves have a flavor somewhat unpleasant or slightly bitter, but it has vitamins A high similar to the leaves of beans, cinnamon leaf, cassava leaves, carrots, and papaya leaves. results of research shows that the important substances contained in the fruit noni consisting of terpenoids, dyes, anti-bacterial, acid glucuronide, gum arabic, galactose, arabinose, rhamnos, nutrition, scopoletin, anti-cancer agent (damnacanthal) and xeronine and proxeronine.

The young leaves of Morinda citrifolia efficacious as anti-cancer, emetic drugs bile, kidney disease, hypertension, injuries, colds (as a poultice on the stomach), dysentery, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, high cholesterol and increase stamina. And young Noni fruit can be make a fruit salad.

Noni plant can grow well in low-lying areas with an altitude of 0-500 m above sea level, the air temperature is between 22 ° C -30 ° C, but still can grow up to a temperature of 32 ° C. Humidity air between 50-70%, rainfall between 2000-3000 mm / year, and enough sunlight. Noni tolerant shade or shady circumstances, making it suitable planted in yard. Noni requires a pH between 5.5-6.5 with structure fertile, many containing humus, have aeration and good drainage. The type of soil that is suitable for growth.

Spinach Healthy Drink

Spinach is healthy vegetables. Spinach leaves can be used to clean the blood after birth, strengthens hair roots, treat low blood pressure, anemia and kidney failure. But we often get bored eating spinach as soupy vegetables or salad. Thus, we can mensiasatinya to make ice cream spinach. It will be more tasty drinks, fresh and fun.

Intrigued with Ice Cream Spinach? Try it in the recipe below how to make ice cream spinach:

Ingredients:
150 grams of spinach leaves - Boil then coarsely chopped
25 g cornstarch
150 cc of sweetened condensed milk
150 cc boiled water
100 gr sugar
10 g vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt

How to Make Ice Cream Spinach:

1. Mixed well the cornstarch, milk, water, sugar, vanilla, and salt in pan. Boil until boiling, stir the milk should not be broken.

2. Enter the spinach and continue to stir. Remove and let cool.

3. Put it in the freezer for 10 minutes, then beat with a mixer until smooth.

4. Insert back into the freezer, then shake again. Repeat this step at least 3 times or until soft ice cream.

5. Ready presented.

The Efficacious of the Mangosteen Fruit and Rind of the Mangosteen

 

Rind contains 50 xanthone compounds. Xanthone is an antioxidant Bioflavonoids, antialergi, antitumor, antibacterial, antihistamine and a bitter taste. In nature, there are about 200 types of xanthone where 50 of whom reside on the mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) The compound was spread on the skin of fruits and seeds, bark, leaves and a small portion of meat on his men. The mangosteen rind was also very rich in antioxidants can treat various diseases even though chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, hepatitis, kidney, and others. Antioxidants are compounds that can prevent the occurrence of oxidation reaction against free radicals. Furthermore, an antioxidant reacts with free radicals that can reduce the ability to cause free radical damage. Let's look at some of the benefits of the mangosteen fruit for skin health.

The efficacious

Ø To disease dysentery: mangosteen rind washed and cut into pieces and boiled in four cups of water. After boiling the water, and the remaining half of the stew, lift up and chill. After cold, filtered water stew. If anyone can add honey. Drinking water this concoction 2 times a day and see its development.

Ø  To cure diarrhea: Perform the same steps, but the remaining cooking water less.
For the healing of canker sores: step how to make potions are also the same. Only, the water used to rinse the potion enough.
Anti-microbial: Mangosteen rind has antimicrobial power against certain types of microbes and fungi.

Ø  Anti Cancer: Research on the efficacy of mangosteen peel for herbal treatment continues. The last thing rather encouraging is that the mangosteen rind is expected to be the solution to override the deadly serious diseases such as cancer.

Jakarta City Of Fruits

Many of the names in the Jakarta area using the name of the plants and fruits are unique. Some of them are pieces that are rarely found in the market. Here's the name of the area in Jakarta which uses the name of the fruit.

1.Kepa

Kepa (Syzygium polycephalum) or kupa or Kupa is a name of a fruit tree Syzygium tribal members. Kepa in some areas also called gohok, kepa (Betawi), kupa beunyeur (Sunda), Kupa, dompyong (Java). Kupa grows wild mainly in secondary forests, between altitudes of 200-1800 m above sea level. Additionally Gowok also planted in gardens planted in the yard and land agroforestry else. Kepa mostly grown for the fruit, are often sold in the market to be eaten fresh, as a salad ingredient, reddish wood, used as building materials or furnishings.

2.Kedoya

Kedoya is a tree has scientific name (Dysoxylum gaudichaudianum). Kedoya the name of a plant of the types of duku-dukuan (Meliaceae) which In English better known as ivory mahagony. Originally from Australia, kedoya tree itself is now difficult to find in the West Jakarta. That said, in the region grow a lot of trees kedoya. However, due to the widening of the area of housing and population growth, compound pinnate leaves of trees which is cleared it up.

3.Kebun Jeruk

Kebun Jeruk it means  Citrus garden. Citrus (Citrus sp.) Is the annual fruit crops that originated in Asia. China is believed as the first place to grow oranges. Since hundreds of years ago, sdh oranges grown in Indonesia, either naturally or cultivated. Citrus crop in Indonesia is a relic of the Dutch people who bring sweet oranges and tangerines from America and Italy.

4.Kemanggisan

Kemanggisan derived from the word “manggis” or "mangosteen" a kind of fruit tree called latin (Garcinia mangostana). Mangosteen is a fruit of a tree crop that comes from the tropical forests that shade in southeast asia region, namely Malaysia or Indonesia blantara forest. Of southeast asia, the plant is spread to Central America and other tropical regions such as srilanka, Malagasy, Caribbean, Hawaii and northern Australia. In Indonesia mangosteen is called by various names such as local manggu (West Java), manggus (Lampung), manggusto (North Sulawesi).

5. Bintaro

Bintaro is the name of the plant that is now often used as a reforestation tree. Bintaro which has the scientific name (Cerbera manghas) is often referred to as sea mango, blind rhino, babuto, and wood octopus. The leaves and fruit contains ingredients that affect the heart, a glycoside which is called cerberin, which is highly toxic.

Well, usually bintaro fruit is used for rat repellent. Besides dangerous, it turns bintaro fruit has benefits for fuel. The inside of the fruit bintaro strands (like oil) and seed. Bintaro fruit seeds contain 35-50% oil content. Oil seeds bintaro certainly can not be consumed. But it can be used as an alternative fuel. Bintaro oil can be used to substitute for kerosene.

How to Treat Oil Bintaro
1. Use fruit bintaro old (red), usually that has fallen from the tree stem.
2. Peel and take the seeds (do not forget to wear gloves, because it is dangerous)
3. Dry the seeds in the sun bintaro
4. Mix dry beans bintaro
5. Perform pressing to get out the oil, then strain and set aside a few nights
6. Bintaro oils ready for use

6.Menteng

Menteng which in Latin is called Baccaurea racemosa are producing fruit. Fruit menteng or kepundung resembles duku with sour taste (sour), sweet. This plant is closely related to Lempaung or Kalampesu. Menteng was famous because President Barack Obama attended here as a child. Even established a memorial statue in front of the school he used to be.

7.Gandaria

Gandaria is the name of the tree and the fruit which has a Latin name (scientific) Bouea macrophylla. Gandaria also the identity of the flora of the province of West Java. used ranging from fruits, leaves, stems up. Fruit Gandaria who are young are often consumed as a salad or sauce mixture Gandaria.

8.Kemang

Fruit similar kemang mango, yellow when it is ripe brown. Kemang named scientific Mangifera kemanga. Fruits issued scents like turpentine. Fruit flesh is yellow, it contains a lot of liquid with a sweet and sour taste. The ripe fruit can be eaten fresh, while the nearly ripe fruit is usually eaten for a mixed salad.

The leaves are still young can be used for salad. Kemang spread naturally in Sumatra, Borneo and the Malay Peninsula; and widely cultivated in western Java, especially near Bogor. This plant is mainly spread in the lowlands below 400 m, rarely up to 800 m above sea level. Resistant to this type of flooding, and are often found near the riverbank.

In some parts of South Sumatra there is a myth that if a pile of durian mention combined with 1 piece of Kemang in one night the whole durian fruit will break open mature, the myth also be directly mokad when his head was crushed fruit.