Chicken's comb flower, at first glance it looks like a rooster's comb. This plant is often grown as an ornamental plant with a unique appearance.
The chicken's comb flower, which has the Latin name Celosia Cristata, is also believed to be widely used for traditional medicine.
This flower is very easy to cultivate and can grow on any land. The term is not a crybaby, until now the population has circulated throughout the archipelago, and a lot of terms are attached to this chicken comb flower plant depending on each region.
This plant can grow as high as 60-90 cm, thick trunk, strong and branched. The leaves are single, stemmed and alternate.
The leaves are oval to elongated between 5-12 cm with a width of about 3 to 7 cm.
The flowers are compound in the form of grains, thick fleshy which is wide at the top like a rooster's comb. The shape is folded or branched purple, red or yellow.
Quoted from the book "Aneka Manfaat Bunga untuk Kesehatan (The Various Benefits of Flowers for Health)" written by Dini Nuris Nuraini published by Gava Media 2014, the following is an explanation of the content and benefits of chicken's comb:
Chemical Content Although the shape is a little strange, chicken's comb flower contains fatty oils, kaempferitrin, amaranthin, pinitol. While in the leaves there are saponins, flavonoids and phenols.
How about the taste of the flowers? The flowers turn out to be sweet and cool in nature. This plant is efficacious as an anti-inflammatory, stopping bleeding (hemostasis) and strengthening eyesight.
Recipe for Making Potions For the concoction to be drunk, use 10-15 grams of boiled dried flowers or dried flowers that are finely ground into powder or made into pills.
As for external use, boil fresh flowers. After cold, then use the water to wash bleeding wounds, bleeding hemorrhoids and itching (pruritus).
In addition, you can also use fresh flowers that are finely ground, then placed on a sore spot, such as hemorrhoids, insect bites or wounds.
How to mix it for various treatments
Stop bleeding Jewer kotok flowers are widely used in the community to stop bleeding such as coughing up blood, vomiting blood, nosebleeds and bleeding hemorrhoids.
The trick is to boil the fresh flowers of the chicken's comb, add urang-aring and the roots of the reeds. All these ingredients measure about 15 grams with three glasses of water until the remaining one cup. Once cool, then drink all at once in the morning before eating. Boil the dregs once again and drink in the afternoon.
Treating Dysentery To treat dysentery, prepare a chicken's comb flower about 15 grams, add 15 grams of sambiloto and 10 grams of patikan kebo. All these ingredients are in dry form.
After that, add three cups of water and boil until the water remains one cup. Once cool, strain and drink at once before eating. Boil the dregs once again to drink in the afternoon.
Treating Urinary Tract Infections Chicken's comb flower turns out to be widely used by people in Indonesia for the treatment of urinary tract infections.
The main ingredients prepared are 15 grams of chicken's comb flower, 15 grams of spoon leaves are added, 30 grams of cat whiskers leaves and 20 grams of bitter leaf. All these ingredients are in dry form.
High blood pressure For the treatment of high blood pressure or hypertension, the main ingredient needed is 15 grams of dried chicken comb flowers. Add 10 red angco then boiled with 400 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc. Once cool, the ingredients are filtered and then drunk.
Gonorrhea Gonorrhea can actually be treated with this one plant. That's because of the content of saponins, flavonoids and polyphenols that can overcome gonorrhea.
The way to mix it is to boil 2 clusters of chicken's comb flowers with 3 cups of water until it boils and the remaining cup. Then, chill. The decoction is drunk with sugar 3 times a day.
Treat Diarrhea For the treatment of diarrhea, the ingredients needed are 15 grams of dry chicken comb and 30 grams of guava leaves. All ingredients are then boiled with 500 cc of water until the remaining half. Once cool, the ingredients are filtered and then drunk.
That's an introduction to the chicken's comb flower, the content, benefits and how to mix ingredients for a variety of treatments, hopefully it's useful!
Article Source: https://klikhijau.com/read/manfaat-bunga-jengger-ayam-dan-cara-meraciknya-untuk-ragam-pengobatan/
This is really lovely and Beautiful. Keep up the good work moving.
thanks for the welcome friend
That's quite a common plant for people to buy for Chinese New Year.
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