Biduri

(Calotropis gigantea [Willd.] Dryand.ex WTAit.)

Synonym:
C. gigantea R.Br., Asclepias gigantea Willd.

Family:
asclepiadaceae.

Description:
Biduri common in long dry season areas, such as dry grasslands, mountain slopes are low, and sandy beaches. Shrubs erect, height 0,5-3 m. Stems round, thick, thick-haired young twigs white. Leaves single, short-stemmed, where the deal. Leaf blade oval or round, long, blunt tip, base heart-shaped, flat edge, pertulangan pinnate, 8-30 cm long, 4-15 cm wide, light green. The leaf surface of young leaves of the white-haired meeting (slowly dissolved), while the lower surface remains thick white hair. Compound interest in a child's umbrella, at the end or the armpit leaves. Meeting haired flower, the crown wheel of the ship-shaped flowers, lilac, sometimes white. Fruit bamboo fruit, an oval or round length, the base of the fruit in the form of connection, 9-10 cm long, green. Seeds small, oval, flat, brown, short hair and thick, like silk tassel long hair. If one of the injured plant parts, will issue a white resin, thin, bitter taste and chocolate, over time tastes sweet, the smell was stinging, and toxic. Biduri bark contains fiber materials that can be used to make nets. Biduri can be propagated by seed. http://ariyawanioryne.blogspot.com/

Local Name:
NAME OF AREA: Sumatra: Rubik, Biduri, lembega, rembega, rumbigo. Java: babakoan, badori, Biduri, thistle, saduri, sidoguri, bidhuri, burigha. Bali: Manori, maduri. Nusa Tenggara: muduri, rembiga, kore, krokoh, kolonsusu, kapauk modo, modo kampauk. Sulawesi: rambega. Foreign names: Giant milk weed, fading plant (I), the ships (Tag.), oscherstrauch. Name Simplisia: Calotropidis Cortex Radicis (Biduri root bark).


Curable Disease:
NATURE AND KHASIAT: Skin roots kolagoga Biduri efficacious, peluruh sweat (diaforetik), stimulants vomiting (emetik), stimulate the digestive enzymes of work (alternate), and peluruh urine (diuretic). Biduri bark emetik efficacious, efficacious tonic rates, and increase appetite (stomakik). Rubifasien nutritious leaves and eliminate itching. Sap poisonous and can cause vomiting. However, as a potent laxative.

Utilization:

PART USED
Plant part used is the root bark, leaves, sap, and flowers.

INDICATION
Root is used for skin treatment: fever, stomach feels full, sore and weak legs, poisonous snake bites, chronic ulcers, and other skin diseases.
Leaves used for treatment: scabies, wounds, ulcers, sores, itching in chicken pox (varicella), measles (measles), fever, and cough.
Flowers are used for treatment: inflammation, stomach (gastritis), cough, shortness of breath, influenza, secondary syphilis, gonorrhea (gonorrhea), and leprosy (leprosy).
Sap is used for treatment: ulcers, eczema, enlarged lymph nodes, sores on syphilis, wounds in the legs, toothache, and remove the thorn that pierce the skin.

HOW TO USE
For drugs taken, boiled leather 0,1-0,65 g roots, and drink. For external use, fresh leaves layukan enough, then add whiting and milled until smooth. Furthermore, lumurkan herbs to the affected body part scurvy. For abdominal pain, layukan fresh leaves on the fire, and rub the oil on the surface, is used to close the abdomen. For earache, pounded young leaves until soft, then squeeze. Water dripped in the ear feelings of pain. To wound or ulcer, minced dried leaves until smooth, then sprinkle the powder on the wound or ulcer.

EXAMPLES OF USE
Gastritis
Wash 1 / 3 handful Biduri flowers, then boiled in three cups of water until the remaining approximately 2 1 / 4 cup. Once cool, strain and add honey to taste. Furthermore, slap potion to drink. For the treatment, drink this potion as much as 3 / 4 cup, three times a day.

Leprosy, secondary syphilis, gonorrhea
Boil 0.1 g of dried flowers in three cups of water until the remains into a glass. After the cold filter and filter drinking water.

Bitten by a poisonous snake
Wash the roots of 1 finger clean, then chew and swallow the water, while the pulp is used to close the wound.

Sore and weak legs
Wash the roots clean enough, then finely mashed. Add the rice flour (as much) and stir until blended. Rub mixture on the leg pain.

Ulcer
Put fruit on the sap of a stubborn ulcers.


Syphilis and wounds on the feet
Wash the wounds in syphilis and legs, and rub the sap on the wound Biduri it.

Delicate thorn
Squirt sap Biduri on body parts pierced with thorns. Directly, the sap will issue a thorn in the skin itself.

Enlarged lymph nodes.
Apply a swollen gland with Biduri sap.

Toothache
Apply sap Biduri the toothache. The way this basting should be done carefully, not about healthy teeth.

Cough and shortness of breath
Burn dry leaves, and breathe the smoke.

Sprue
Wash leaves thoroughly enough, mash until smooth, then squeezed. Apply water on the feelings of sprue.

Measles
Wash 1 / 4 handful Biduri leaves, 1 / 4 genggan young tamarind leaves, and rhizome of turmeric 1 / 2 finger; then mashed until smooth. Add one cup of cooking water and one tablespoon of honey, and stir until smooth. Furthermore, herbs and filtered drinking water filter. Treatment was conducted two times a day.

Earache
Wash young leaves thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Next, squeeze and filter, then water is dripped on the ear pain. Perform this treatment 3-4 times a day.

Stomachache
Wash the leaves thoroughly, then layukan on the fire. Apply the oil, then place the leaves around the abdomen.


Scabies
Wash a handful of fresh leaves thoroughly, then rinse with boiled water. Layukan leaves them on the fire, then mash and add 1 / 4 teaspoon whiting. Comminution done until mixture becomes dough, like a thick porridge. Finally, apply a mixture of hands and feet are mangy.

Itching
Biduri leaves Wash thoroughly, then apply coconut oil on the surface and layukan on the fire. Material used for itchy skin membalur.

Notes
Sap External

Composition:
Roots contain saponin, sapogenin, kalotropin, kalotoksin, uskarin, kalaktin, gigantin, and harsa. Leaves contain saponin, flavonoida, polyphenols, tannins, and calcium oxalate. Trunk contains tannins, saponins and calcium oxalate. Cardiac toxic sap that resembles digitalis.