Medical plant daun duduk have botanical name (Desmodium triquetrum [L.] D.C.).description:
Leaves seat can be found from the lowlands to 1,500 m above sea level. grows wild in the open with adequate sunlight or a little shade, and not so dry. Chronic shrub, growing upright or climbing, high 0.5 to 3 m, with a wooden leg. Round rods, segmented, rough surface, branching simpodial, diameter 2 cm, brown. Leaves single, alternate, leafy fulcrum, winged petiole width. Leaf blade lanceolate, tapered tip, base flat, flat edge, pertulangan pinnate, length 10-20 cm, width 1.5 to 2 cm, a young brown, after the old green. Compound interest, panicle, exit from the tip of the stem, crown-shaped butterfly purple color is white, smooth-haired, base berlekatan. Pods, length 2.5 to 3.5 cm, width 4-6 mm, hairy, containing 4-8 seeds, young green, after the old chocolate. Small seeds, kidney shape, the color is light brown
PART USED:
All parts except the root (herb) may be used.
Use in fresh or dried.
INDICATIONS treat diseases of the medical plant:
This herb is efficacious for:
- Prevents fainting from the heat (heat stroke), fever, colds,
- Inflammation of the tonsils (tonsillitis), mumps (parotitis), melt pus
(piorea),
- Acute inflammation of the kidney (acute nephritis), swollen (edema),
- Inflammation of the intestine (enteritis), dysentery,
- Hookworm infection (hookwonn), tapeworm infection in the liver,
- Vaginal discharge due to trichomonas (trichomonal vaginitis),
- Vomiting in pregnancy, malnutrition in children,
- Jaundice (jaundice hepatitis),
- Poisoned fruit of pineapple,
- Tuberculosis of bones and lymph glands, multiple abscesses,
- Scleroderma,
- Hemorrhoids,
- Rheumatism.
