Piper bettle leaves

Piper bettle plants belong to the family Piperaceae. Its leaves have certain aroma due to their essential oil content. They have certain hard smell. The essential oil contains much phenolic component, especially which are called chavicol and chavibetol. These components have "strong" antiseptic effect, and the essential oil is also a vasoconstrictor. That is why the leaves in traditional medicine are used to help nose bleeding. To use the leaves to stop nose bleeding, just roll the leaf or leaf part, and insert one side of the rolled leaf in the nose ( do not insert too deeply, otherwise it will dammage the nose). After a while the bleeding will stop( if this does not help, you need to go to the doctor ).

Alpinia galanga

Alpinia galanga is one of the member of ginger family (Zingiberaceae). Like the other members of the ginger family do, they have specific aroma, due to the essential oil content of their rhizome (big roots). Due to this specific aroma, Alpinia galanga roots are much used as an ingredient of certain dishes, and also used as a component of herbal medicine. Its roots are much used as an ingredient of herbal medicine used to combat cough. It relienes cough, because it has an antiseptic and local anaesthetic activity in the throat. The usual way to use as a cough medicine is. the rhizome are sliced into small pieces. then they are boiled in water for 15 minutes, then drink the infuse when it is cool or zip a bit and swallow when you feel pain in your throat.

Citrus hystrix

The plant Citrus hystrix belongs to the family Rutaceae. As the other members of Citrus do, it has also essential oil in its fruit rinds and its leaves. The leaves differ from the leaves of the other Citrus specieses, because they consists of two leaflets, and they also have a specific aroma. The leaves and the fruit rind, are used as spice components in Javanese and other parts of the world dishes, because they have a nice aroma. In Javanese natural medicine, they are used as an anti dandruff, especially its essential oil

The temu ireng plant

Part used roots

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Temu ireng

Temu ireng

Temu ireng ( Curcuma aeruginosa Roxb. ) is a member of Ginger family. It plays an important role in household traditional medicine. Part used is its rhizome. Used as an anthelminthic and appetite enhancer in children. When I was a child, when my appetite was not good, my mother made a remedy for me in this way. Caeruginosa rhizome (root) was stumped and made into a poultice, then mixed with a little bit brown sugar, a little bit of crunched anise seeds, then wrapped in a banana leaf, then put it in a rice cooker and cooked during 15 minutes, then took it out from the cooker. When the thing was cold enough, press and squeese it and pour its water into a cup, through a clean cloth. Then, my mother let me drink the liquid. It was bitter, but my mother forced me. Then, she thought my appetite became better again.