Brotowali (Tinospora crispa [L.] Miers.)

Brotowali is a plant that grows wild in the forests, fields, or we can also grow it. Brotowali very fond of hot areas, these plants including shrubs and climbing. It has a trunk up to 2.5 m high with a large trunk of your little finger, berbintil-nodule meetings and has a bitter taste. This plant is also a single plant leaves, stemmed, with leaves like a heart shape or a little bit like a round egg pointy toes, with leaves 7-12 cm long and 5-10 cm wide. The flowers are small, with a light green color with a form of artificial bunches. This plant can also be reproduced by cuttings.Chemical properties and pharmacological effects:Brotowali terkenali with a bitter taste and cool. Brotowali also useful as a painkiller, fever and launched a meridian.Usefulness:Rheumatic arthritis, rheumatic arthritis and bruised hip.Fever, stimulates appetite, yellow fever.DiabetesHow to use:It takes about 10-15 grams brotowali rod for treatment. For external wounds, boiling water brotowali rod is used to wash wounds such as sores, scabies and others. As for other usage such as:Rheumatik: 1 finger sticks brotowali then wash and cut as necessary, then the stem is boiled with 3 cups water, boil until the remaining 1 ½ cups. Once cool, strain the cooking water and add the honey to taste.Drink ½ cup 3 times a day.Yellow fever: 1 finger sticks brotowali then wash and cut as necessary, then the stem is boiled with 3 cups water, boil until the remaining 1 ½ cups. Once cool, strain the cooking water and add the honey to taste.Drink a day 2 x ¾ cup.Fever: 2 finger sticks brotowali then washed and boiled with 2 cups water, boil until remaining 1 glass. Once cool, strain and add honey to taste, drink a day 2 x ½ cups.Diabetes:? handheld bitter leaf,? handheld leaf kucng mustache, ¾ fingers (± 6 cm) stem brotowali. Wash and cut the stems brotowali.Boil all three ingredients with 3 cups water, boil until the remaining 2 cups. Strain and drink after a meal, a day 2 x 1 cup.Scabies: 3 finger sticks brotowali, sulfur of hazelnut. Wash and mash until smooth, being mixed with coconut oil and rub on the skin is exposed to scabies. 2 times a day.Injuries: Leaves pounded until smooth, put on the wound. 2 times a day. To wash wounds, use the cooking water brotowali rod.