What is Senggani Plant and its benefits?
Senggani plants are often referred to in the area (biluku) and we often make the fruit as snacks during the day, with a sweet taste Senggani can be processed into sweet cakes and can be consumed directly too. Senggani plant is one of the wild plants that grows a lot in the forest with regular rainfall.
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The hallmark of Senggani is in the form of shrubs or small trees. The trunk is woody, brown, erect 1.5-2m high with sympodial branches. The leaves are single, stemmed, located opposite each other and have black fruit that has a sweet and sour taste.
Senggani plant is one of the hyperaccumulator plants, also known as senresiden. Senggani plants are often considered by some to be of no use and some people call them weeds that destroy agriculture. But in fact, Senggani has deep and highly nutritious benefits for the health of the body. What is it, let's see the explanation?
Content and Benefits contained in Senggani Plants
Senggani flowers contain kaempferol, anthocyanins, tannins, fatty acids and sterols. In the species Melastoma malabathricum, the reddish-purple flower parts are thought to contain anthocyanins. So that we can use this part as a natural dye. Senggani fruit that is ripe can be used as a sweetener for cakes and various other preparations.
Benefits of consuming Senggani Plants
• Gastrointestinal disorders (dyspepsia),
• bacillary dysentery,
• Diarrhea,
• Hepatitis,
• Vaginal discharge (leukorrhea),
• Ulcer,
• excessive menstruation,
• blood hemorrhoids,
• uterine bleeding.
The benefits of processed herbal Senggani leaves are useful for treating diarrhea, dysentery, tonic, vaginal discharge, smallpox, and useful for women after giving birth.
With a good preparation and concoction of senggani leaves, squeezed water and mixed with honey can cure various diseases such as:
• Gout,
• nausea,
• Dizzy,
• myopic eyes.
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