What is tempuyung and its use for health?
Tempuyung or better known in our area. Tempuyung is a wild plant (weed) that we usually see in plantations, ditches and other places. Tempuyung is a medicinal plant with many benefits.
Tempuyung plants whose bodies are in humid areas
Habitat Tempuyung grows wild in open places exposed to sunlight or slightly sheltered and on slightly moist soil, such as the edge of ditches, roadsides, between rocks, cliffs, plantations and sloping walls.
Tempuyung plants belonging to the compositae plant family usually grow in sheltered places. The leaves are smooth green with a hint of purple, wavy edges, and irregularly toothed.
Tempuyung plants can grow to about 100-150 cm. The stems of tempuyung are hairy and soft and have flowers similar to sunflowers but tempuyung are smaller than sunflowers.
What are the Benefits of Tempuyung Leaves and Flowers?
The content contained in Tempuyung
The content of tempuyung leaves consists of organic compounds such as flavonoids (kaempferol, luteolin-7-0 glucoside, and apigenin-7-0-glucoside), taraksasterol, inositol, coumarin (skepoletin), and phenolic acids (cinnamic, coumaric, and vanillic).
Benefits of Consuming Tempuyung Leaves
• Lowering high blood pressure.
• Treating gout.
• Overcoming kidney stones.
• Reducing high fever.
Tempuyung Leaf Processing
Take the tempuyung leaves to taste then dry and brewed with one glass of water to drink like making tea. This steeped water is drunk as medicine. In a day we can drink it three times, until the kidney stones disappear and high blood pressure decreases.
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