Brotowali

(Tinospora crispa (L.) Miers.hen jin t)

Synonym:
Tinospora rumphii, Boerl. T. tuberculata Beumee. Cocculus crispus, DC. Menispermum verrucosum. M.crispum, Linn. M.tuberculatum, Lamk.

Family:
Menispermaceae

Description:
Wild plants in the forests, fields or planted by the rail yard. Ordinary grown as medicinal plants. Love the hot places, including shrubs, climbing, tall stems to 2.5 m. Trunk of your little finger, berbintil-nodule bitter meeting. Single leaves, stemmed, heart-shaped like an egg or a little budar pointy toes, length from 7 to 12 cm, width of 5 to 10 cm. Flowers small, light green, quasi-shaped bunches. Propagated by cuttings.

Local Name:
Antawali, Tinospora cordifolia, putrawali, leaf gadel (Java); Andawali (Sunda), Antawali (Bali); Shen jin teng (China).;


Curable Disease:
Rheumatism, fever, appetite, Diabetes;

Utilization:
PART OF THE APPLICABLE: Batang.

PURPOSE:
1. Rheumatic arthritis, rheumatik hip (sciatica), bruise.
2. Fever, stimulates appetite, yellow fever.
3. Diabetes.

USAGE: 10 - 15 grams, boiled, drinking.

EXTERNAL USE: Water boiled stems used for washing brotowali scab, scabies, wounds.

HOW TO USE:
1. Rheumatik:
1 finger stick brotowali washed and cut into pieces as needed, boiled
with 3 cups of water up to 1 1 / 2 cup. After cold
filtered, added honey to taste, drink. Day 3 x 1 / 2 cup.

2. Yellow fever (icteric):
1 finger stick brotowali washed and cut into pieces, boiled with 3
glass of water to be 1 1 / 2 cup. Drink with honey
sufficiently. Day 2 x 3 / 4 cup.

3. Fever:
2 finger sticks brotowali boiled with 2 cups water, until it becomes 1
glass. After a cold, drunk with honey to taste. 2x day
1 / 2 cup.

4. Diabetes:
1 / 3 handful sambiloto leaves, 1 / 3 handful of cat whiskers leaves, 3 / 4
finger ± 6 cm stem brotowali washed and cut into pieces, boiled
with 3 cups of water up to 2 cups. Taken after a meal,
day 2 X 1 glass.

5. Mange (scabies):
3 finger sticks brotowali, sulfur for pecan, washed and
finely ground, squeezed by coconut oil as needed. Used
to grease the affected skin scabies. Day 2 x.

6. Luka:
Brotowali leaves finely ground, placed on the wound, replaced 2 x
per day. To wash wounds, use the cooking water brotowali rod.

Composition:
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: Bitter, cold. Alleviate pain (analgesic), fever (antipyretic), launched a meridian. CHEMICAL KANDUNGAN: alkaloids, soft resin, starch, glycosides pikroretosid, pikroretin bitter substances, harsa, berberin and palmatin. Roots contain alkaloids berberin and kolumbin.