Flowers Tasbih

(Canna indica Linn.)

Synonym:
Canna orientalis, Roscoe. Canna patens, Roscoe.

Family:
Cannaceae

Description:
Terna large, annual, to 2 m. high, the soil has a thick rhizome like sweet potatoes. Leaves large and broad, green clear nyirip (some colored tengguli). Large flowers with bright colors (red, yellow) are arranged in the form of a series of bunches. Fruit of kendaga fruit, seeds many, unanimously. Almost always grown as an ornamental plant, but grows wild in the forests and mountainous areas to a height of 1000 above sea level. Other types, Canna edulis Go Gawl. (Canna discolor) has a smaller flower petals, green leaves with a ping tengguli more tengguli. Grown as ornamental plants, edible rimpangnya, in Australia as a producer of flour which is known as "arrowroot of Queensland".

Local Name:
Gany forest (Malays), Nyong wana, Canna discolor pads (Java); Ganyol Leuweung (Sunda), Puspanyidra; Mel gene jiao ren (China);

Curable Disease:
Fever, hypertension, dysentery, Keputihan, Sick yellow; Coughing blood, bloody wounds, Inflammation of purulent skin, acne; menstruating much;

Utilization:
PART THAT USE: The root and rhizome (fresh or dried), flowers (dried).

PURPOSE: - Penurun hot (antipyretic), high blood pressure, chronic dysentery, metrorrhagia (menstrual many), white (leucorrhoe), jaundice (icteric acute hepatitis), coughing up blood (hemoptysis). - Use external: bleeding wound, purulent inflammation of the skin, acne (acne vulgaris).

USAGE: The root / rhizome: 15 - 30 gr. dry or 30 to 60 gr. wet.

Flower: 10 - 15 gr. EXTERNAL USE: The root / rhizome of fresh crushed, and put the sick place.

HOW TO USE:
1. Acute icteric hepatitis: Drink boiled roots of beads: 60 - 120 gr (maximum dose 250 gr.) Daily, divided 2 times drinks, for 20 days, maximum 47 days.
2. Stop the bleeding: 10 - 15 gr. flower beads, boiled, drinking.
3. Whitish: 15 - 30 gr. root beads sticky chicken: in the team.

Composition:
NATURE AND EFFECTS KIMAWI FARMAKOLOGI: Taste a bit sweet, cool, fever, lower blood pressure, sedatives (tranqui-lizer). CHEMICAL KANDUNGAN: Rhizome 6 substances contain phenols, terpenes 2 and 4 coumarin, starch, glucose, alkaloids and sap entry.