Cat Tails

(Acalypha hispida Burm. F.)

Synonym:
A. densiflora Bl.
Family:
Euphorbiaceae

Description:
Cats are native plants of the West Indies. Generally, planted as an ornamental plant in the yard or in the parks. Shrubs, growing up, height 1-3 m. Stems rounded, branching simpodial, surface rough, greenish brown. Leaves single, long stemmed, where the turns. Leaf blade shape oval or oblong, pointed tip, base obtuse, serrated edge, pertulangan pinnate, 12-20 cm long, 6-16 cm wide, light green. Unisexual flowers in a tree. Female flowers gathered in the form of grain composition of the leaves out of the armpit, the long round dangling down, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, 20-50 cm long, red. The fruit is round, small, hairy, green. The seed is round, small, dirty white. Cats can be propagated by seeds.

Local Name:
NAME OF Indonesia: tail cat, cats, monkeys. Java: dog leash (Sunda), wunga mines, lancuran (Java), part monkey (Bali). Maluku: lofoti (Ternate). NAME OF FOREIGN Gou wei hong (C), kattestaart (B), chenille plant, monkey's tail, cat's tail (I). NAME Simplisia Acalyphae hispidae Flos (flower cats), Acalyphae hispidae Folium (leaf cats).

Curable Disease:
Flowers sweet cats, chocolate, its cool. This flower efficacious to stop the bleeding (hemostatis) and peluruh urine (diuretic). Roots and leaves hemostatis efficacious.

Utilization:
PART USED
The part used is the flowers and leaves.

INDICATION
Flowers are used for the treatment of:
dysentery, gastroenteritis,
bleeding, such as dysentery, vomiting blood, nosebleeds,
worms,
burns,
ulcers (ulcers) on legs.

Leaves used for treatment:
white patches on the skin due to loss of pigment (vitiligo),
dysentery, coughing up blood (haemoptysis), wound bleeding, and
sprue.

HOW TO USE
To drug intake, 10-30 g of boiled flowers, and water rebusannya drunk.
For external use, milled leaves or flowers to taste until smooth, then attach to the sick.

EXAMPLE OF USE IN THE COMMUNITY

Vitiligo
Wash a handful of fresh leaves and kencur size 1 / 2 thumbs up clean, then milled until smooth. Balurkan on the stained section of white body, and dressing. Perform this treatment every day.

Bleeding wounds
To close the wound, washing a handful of fresh leaves thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Stick to the wound, then wrapped with gauze.
Wash fresh flowers and betel sufficiently clean, then chew. During chewed, can add a little ginger, kencur, and that still leaves muda.Telan Pulai chewing water and waste pulp. Do this several times a day.
30 g minced fresh flowers and 30 g palm sugar until smooth. Furthermore, eating the mixture. Do it 3 times a day until healed.

Composition:
Leaves contain acalyphin, flavonoida, saponins, and tannins. Flowers contain saponins and tannins.