Knob flowers planted in the garden and planted as an ornamental plant or growing wild in fields that get enough sunlight. Plants originating from tropical America can be found at an altitude of 1-1300 m above sea level.
Annual herb, growing upright, height 60 cm or more, your entire body hair. Reddish-green stalks, enlarged at the branching segments.Leaves single, short-stemmed, the location of face crossed. Leaf blade ovate shape breech until elongated, tapered tip, the edge of the flat, green, white-haired rough on the upper surface and soft hairy on lower surface. Single flower, out of the end of the shaft, the shape is round like a ball, crimson purple, white or pink. The fruit is the fruit of a triangular box, encased by a thin layer of white, seed boxes.
Knob petals can be eaten as a vegetable. This plant can be propagated by seed.
Nature and Benefits
It was sweet, neutral in character. Flowers knob efficacious as cough medicine, medicine shortness of breath, phlegm and drug peluruh eye inflammation.
Chemical Ingredients
Gomphrenin I, Gomphrenin II, III Gomphrenin, Gomphrenin V, VI and amarathin Gomphrenin. The content of volatile oil, flavonoids or saponins have properties as a laxative sputum.
Used Parts
Parts used are the flowers or whole fresh herbs or herb. Dry
Indication
Flowers efficacious for the treatment of
• Whooping cough (pertusus)
• Pulmonary tuberculosis accompanied by coughing up blood,
• Shortness of breath (bronchial asthma),
• Inflammation of acute and chronic airway,
• Inflammation of the eye,
• Headache,
• Heat and seizures in children due to liver disorders, nightmares in children,
• Dysentery, and
• Not fluent urination
Herbs are used for:
• Increase appetite
How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled fresh flowers 9-10 or 3-9 g of dried flowers and drink boiled water.
For external use, wash the fresh herbs until completely clean, then milled until smooth. Turapkan this mixture into any part of the sick body, such as swelling / bruising due to hit something hard. Also fresh plant can be boiled and the water used to wash sores.
Annual herb, growing upright, height 60 cm or more, your entire body hair. Reddish-green stalks, enlarged at the branching segments.Leaves single, short-stemmed, the location of face crossed. Leaf blade ovate shape breech until elongated, tapered tip, the edge of the flat, green, white-haired rough on the upper surface and soft hairy on lower surface. Single flower, out of the end of the shaft, the shape is round like a ball, crimson purple, white or pink. The fruit is the fruit of a triangular box, encased by a thin layer of white, seed boxes.
Knob petals can be eaten as a vegetable. This plant can be propagated by seed.
Nature and Benefits
It was sweet, neutral in character. Flowers knob efficacious as cough medicine, medicine shortness of breath, phlegm and drug peluruh eye inflammation.
Chemical Ingredients
Gomphrenin I, Gomphrenin II, III Gomphrenin, Gomphrenin V, VI and amarathin Gomphrenin. The content of volatile oil, flavonoids or saponins have properties as a laxative sputum.
Used Parts
Parts used are the flowers or whole fresh herbs or herb. Dry
Indication
Flowers efficacious for the treatment of
• Whooping cough (pertusus)
• Pulmonary tuberculosis accompanied by coughing up blood,
• Shortness of breath (bronchial asthma),
• Inflammation of acute and chronic airway,
• Inflammation of the eye,
• Headache,
• Heat and seizures in children due to liver disorders, nightmares in children,
• Dysentery, and
• Not fluent urination
Herbs are used for:
• Increase appetite
How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled fresh flowers 9-10 or 3-9 g of dried flowers and drink boiled water.
For external use, wash the fresh herbs until completely clean, then milled until smooth. Turapkan this mixture into any part of the sick body, such as swelling / bruising due to hit something hard. Also fresh plant can be boiled and the water used to wash sores.
