Lote Upas

(Merremia mammosa (Lour.) Hall.f.)

Synonym:
= Batatta mammosa, Rumph. = Convoivuius mammosa, Hall. = Lpomoea mammosa, Chois.

Family:
Convolvulaceae

Description:
Grow wild in the woods, sometimes planted in the yard near the fence as a medicinal plant or the tuber can be eaten. Grow well in tropical areas of lowland until height of 250 m dpi. These plants may be imported from the Philippine, a creeping plant or convolute 3-6 m long, small trunk when held a little slippery and a bit darker color. Leaves single, long stemmed, heart-shaped, flat edge, pointed tip, 5-12 cm long, 4-15 cm wide, dark green color. Perbungaan umbrella-shaped flowers 1-4 together menggarpu, shaped like a bell white, 7-8 cm long, with 4 petals. Gathered tubers in the ground, like a sweet potato. If the soil dry and not inundated by water and soil, the weight can reach 5 kg or more. Tuber skin color brownish yellow, the color of his skin thick white sap, when dried into brown color. Propagation by stem cuttings or plant tuber.

Local Name:
Blanar, widara messenger (Java), hailale (Ambon).;


Curable Disease:
Fever, cough, hoarse, Diphtheria, Sore throat, pneumonia,; Inflammation appendicitis, typhoid, constipation, vomiting blood, cancer; Diabetes, poisoning, snake bite, leprosy, syphilis (Luns).;

Utilization:
PART OF THE APPLICABLE: Umbi.

PURPOSE:
- Fever, cough, hoarse.
- Diphtheria, Sore throat, pneumonia, appendicitis.
- Typhoid, constipation, bowel blood and mucus.
- Vomiting blood.
- Diabetes (DM), bladder stones, food poisoning,
snakebite.
- Cancer, leprosy, syphilis (Lues).

EXTERNAL USE:
Used to smooth out the mother's milk (ASI), the drug cuts, burns, swelling, skin diseases, snake bites.

USAGE:
To drink: 10-100 g of fresh grated corm or simmering.
External use: Umbi thinly sliced or grated to a pulp, for the sick place dibalurkan like sores, swellings, snakebites and so on.

HOW TO USE:
1. Appendicitis:
1 / 4 finger tubers washed and grated and squeezed with 1 tablespoon
eating sugar water, then squeezed and filtered Ialu drunk. Day
2 times.

2. Vomiting blood, typhoid:
Sufficiently fresh tubers washed and grated, squeezed by
a piece of cloth to collect as many as 1 small glass. Drink.

3. Bowel blood and mucus:
50 g tubers are washed and cut into pieces, add sugar Java
enough, godok with 2 cups water until remaining 1 glass.
After chilling filtered, drinks a little.

4. Diphtheria:
Sufficiently fresh tubers, washed and grated, squeezed by a
fabrics to accumulate 1 small glass. Used to gargle-gargle in
throat for 23 minutes, then swallowed.

5. Hoarse, dry cough:
Fresh tubers for 1 finger hand washed, cut into thin
and chewed. Do it 3-4 times a day.

6. Cough:
100 g of fresh tubers are washed and shredded, add rock sugar syrup
sufficiently, stir until evenly distributed then squeezed and filtered, drinks.

7. Whooping cough:
1 / 2 fingers of fresh tubers are washed and grated, squeezed by 2 tablespoons
eating and cooking water 1 tablespoon honey, juice and strained,
drink. do 2 times a day.

8. Diabetes:
100 g of fresh tuber is washed Ialu grated, squeezed by a
cloth. Drink every morning, 1 / 2 hour before meals.

9. Food poisoning:
Fresh tubers sufficiently washed Ialu grated, squeezed by
a piece of cloth to collect 1 / 2 cup. Drink.

10. Cancer, leprosy (Hanson Morbqs):
3 / 4 finger fresh tubers are washed and shredded, add 4 tablespoons
boiled water and 2 tablespoons of honey. Stir thoroughly, then squeeze
with a piece of cloth, divided for 3 times the finished drink in
day.

11. The wounds in the skin:
Fresh tubers are washed and thinly sliced, placed on the wound.

12. ASI launched expenditures:
Fresh tubers washed and grated, borehkan around
breast.

13. Burns:
Fresh tubers washed and grated, Dab on burns,
if necessary bandaged.

14. Snake bites:
Fresh tubers are washed and shredded until the dough like
bubur.Tempelkan above the bite wound, and bandaged.

15. Syphilis (Lues):
1 finger of fresh tubers washed and grated, add 2 tablespoons
eating and cooking water 1 tablespoon pure honey, juice and
filtered, drinks. Do it 3 times a day.

16. Bladder stones / bladder stones:
Lote 10 g tuber upas, 10 g leaves cat whiskers, 15 g of leaves nasty
glass, washed and cut tubers as needed. Boiled with
1 liter of water, until the remaining 150 cc. After chilling filtered ago
drunk. Day 3 x 50 cc.

Composition:
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: Anti-inflammation, alleviate pain (analgesic), eliminating swelling, purgative (laxative), neutralize poison (an antidote), Conditioning. CHEMICAL KANDUNGAN: Rosin, resin, starch, a bitter substance. Fresh sap contain oxydase.