Carambola wuluh

(Averrhoa bilimbi L.)
Synonym:
Family: Oxalidaceae

Description:
Small tree, reaching 10 m high with a trunk that is not so big and has a diameter of only about 30 cm. Planted as fruit trees, sometimes grows wild and is found from the lowlands to 500 m dpi. Trees originating from tropical America where it wants to grow is not shaded and quite humid. Carambola wuluh has rough stems berbenjol-bump, branching slightly, leaning over him. Young branches smooth as velvet hair, brown color. Leaves pinnate compound leaves with 21-45 pairs of odd leaf child. Son of short-stemmed leaves, oval shape to the ellipse, the tip pointed, base rounded, the edge of the flat, 2-10 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, green, light green lower surface. Perbungaan of malai, a group, out of the trunk or a large fork, small flower-shaped reddish-purple star. The fruit is fruit buni, faceted oval shape, 4-6,5 Ern long, yellowish-green color, when ripe juicy lot, it was sour. Seeds oval shape, flat. Taste the fruit acids, used as a refreshing syrup, flavoring dishes, clean the stain on the cloth, buff the items made of brass, clean the dirty hands or as a traditional medicine material. Propagation by seed and transplant.

Local Name:
Limeng, selimeng, thlimeng (Aceh), selemeng (Gayo),; Asom, starfruit, balimbingan (Batak), malimbi (Nias),; balimbieng (Minangkabau), star fruit acids (Malays),; Balimbing (Lampung). calincing, balingbing (Sunda),; Balimbing wuluh (Java), bhalingbhing fur (Madura).; Blingbing Buloh (Bali), limbi (Bima), balimbeng (Flores),; Libi (Sawu), sulfur (Sangi).http://ariyawanioryne.blogspot.com/


Curable Disease:
Cough, ulcers (stomatitis), stomach pain, Mumps (Parotitis),; Rheumatism, whooping cough, bleeding gums, canker sores, toothache hole; acne, phlegm, high blood pressure (hypertension), paralysis,; Improve digestive function, inflammation of the rectum .;

Utilization:
PART THAT USE: Leaves, flowers, fruit.

PURPOSE:
Interest:
- Cough.
- Sprue (stomatitis)

Leaves:
- Stomach pain. Mumps (Parotitis).
- Rheumatism.

Fruit:
- Whooping Cough.
- Bleeding gums, canker sores.
- Hospital cavities.
- Acne. Panu.
- High blood pressure.
- Paralysis.
- Improve digestive function.
- Inflammation of the rectum.

USAGE:
To drink: See recipe.
Outside Pamakaian: Leaves taste after finely milled washed up like porridge, poultice used sebagal (local use) on mumps, rheumatism, acne, phlegm.

HOW TO USE:
1. Pagel rheumatic pain:
Starfruit leaves 1 handful young wuluh, 10 clove seeds,
15 seeds pepper, finely milled and add vinegar to taste.
Lumurkan the sick place.

2. Mumps:
Young twigs 10 following wuluh starfruit leaves and 4 cloves garlic
red after washed and finely crushed. Balurkan place
sick.

3. Coughing in children.
Belimbing wuluh handful of flowers, a few grains of fennel, sugar
to taste and 1 cup water, steamed for several hours. After
cold filtered with a piece of cloth, divided for 2 times drinks,
morning and evening when the stomach is empty.

4. Cough:
25 belimbing wuluh flowers, 1 finger rhizome-led meeting, 1 finger
cinnamon bark, rhizome kencur 1 finger, 2 red onions, 1 / 4
handheld Centella asiatica, 1 / 4 handful of sage leaves, 1 / 4 handful of leaves
rue, 1 / 4 teaspoon leaf cell, washed and cut into pieces
necessary, with 5 cups boiling water until remaining 2 1 / 4
glass. After chilling filtered, taken with honey as necessary.
Day 3 times 3 / 4 cup.

5. Whooping cough:
a. 10 wuluh washed fruit and star fruit ground to pulp,
squeezed by water 2 tablespoons salt, then filtered. Drink,
do 2 times a day.

b. Fruit belimbing wuluh made sweets, a day eating 3 x 6-8 fruits.

6. Rheumatism:
a. 100 g young leaves wuluh starfruit, 10 clove seeds and 15 seeds
pepper, washed and then ground smooth, add vinegar to taste
until a dough like mush. Apply this mache
the sick place.
b. Wuluh 5 star fruit fruit, leaves 8 kantil (Michelia champaca
L.), 15 clove seeds, 15 grains of black pepper, washed and crushed
smooth, squeezed by 2 tablespoons lime juice and
1 tablespoon eucalyptus oil. Used to rub
and massaging the sore body parts. Do it 2-3 times a day.

7. Sprue:
a. Wuluh Segenggarn starfruit flower, sugar to taste and Java
1 cup boiling water until thick. After chilling filtered,
used to clean and lubricate the mouth sores.

b. 2 / 3 cell belimbing wuluh flowers, washed and then boiled with
3 clean water glass until remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. After cold
filtered and drunk, 3 times a day 3 / 4 cup.

c. 3 fruit starfruit wuluh, red onion 3 eggs, 1 nutmeg that

pulosari, washed and finely crushed, squeezed by 3 tablespoons
eating coconut oil, pressed and filtered. Used to
dab wounds sprue, 6-7 times a day.

8. Acne:
a. Belimbing wuluh fruit washed and crushed sufficiently smooth,
squeezed with salt water as necessary, to rub away
of acne. Do it 3 times a day.

b. 6 wuluh fruit and star fruit 1 / 2 teaspoon of powdered sulfur,
finely ground and then squeezed with 2 tablespoons lime juice.
This herb is used to rub and face grease
acne. Do it 2-3 times a day.

9. Panu:
10 wuluh washed fruit and star fruit are ground smooth, add lime
betel nut for the acid, kneaded until smooth. This herb is used
to rub the affected skin phlegm. Apply 2 times a day.

10. Hypertension
Ingredients: 3 fruit star fruit acids, ½ bunch basil leaves
How to make: braised together with 2 cups water to boiling
down to ½ cup, then filtered to take water.
How to use: drink at bedtime and repeated 3 days
once.

11. Diabetes mellitus, fever and inflammation of the intestine axis
Ingredients: 3 handheld sour starfruit leaves
How to make: boiled with 1 liter of water until boiling, then
water is filtered to be taken
How to use: drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon.

Composition:
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: sour taste, cool. Alleviate pain (analgesic), enlarge the bile, anti-inflammatory, peluruh urine, astringent. KANDUNGAN CHEMISTRY: Batang: saponin, tannin, glucoside, Calcium oxalate, sulfur, formic acid, peroxidase. Leaves: Tanin, sulfur, formic acid, peroxidase, Calcium oxalate, potassium citrate.http://ariyawanioryne.blogspot.com/