Cempaka Putih

(Michelia alba DC.)

Synonym: --
Family: Magnoliaceae.

Description:
Plant a tree, height up to 30 meters. Woody stem; single leaf, oval, green color. Flowers white, fragrant smell. Never bear fruit. Vegetatively propagated. Used Part The flowers, leaves, and roots.

Local Name:
NAME OF AREA: Jeumpa gadeng (Aceh); Cempaka putieh (Minangkabau); Campaka Bodas (Sunda); Pecari white, white Cempaka (Java); Campaka Pote (Madura); Cempaka mawure (North Sulawesi); Flowers spelling kebo, Patene (Edge view); Flower spelling mapute (Bugis); Capaka bobudo (Ternate); Capaka bobulo (Tidore). FOREIGN NAME: NAME Simplisia Micheliae albae Flos; Flowers Cempaka Putih.


Curable Disease: Characteristic sweet, spicy, and warm. KHASIAT Expectorants and diuretic.

Utilization:
USEFULNESS
-Flowers:
-Bronchitis.
-Cough.
-Fever.
-Keputihan.
-Inflammation
-prostate.

Leaves:
-Bronchitis.
Urinary-tract infection.
-Urine slightly.

Roots: Urinary-tract infection.

Composition: Mikelarbina and liriodenina alkaloids.