CURCUMA PLANTS
Curcuma is the Zingiberaceae family which is the medicinal plants containing volatile oil and curcuminoids. Cucuma stout found in the forests of the tropics. Medicinal plants were planted in the fields of ginger was also stout fields near the settlement of their inhabitants. Is fertile ground to flourish so that it quickly becomes a large rhizome.
Curcuma is a useful medicinal plants to prevent and treat a wide range of diseases. Some properties of medicinal plants curcuma include: preventing liver disorders, prevent disease and hepatitis, increase production of bile, aids digestion (increases the appetite) to overcome inflammation of the gallbladder, stomach ulcers and kidney problems.
Ficture curcuma already flowering.
CULTIVATION CURCUMA
Seeds obtained from seedlings which grow from rhizomes was 9
months old or more, then seed the initial plant first in damp and dark
for 2-3 weeks before planting in the field. Another way to get seeds is to cut the
rhizomes are harvested and new parents already have a shoot (each piece
consists of 2-3 buds), then dried by sun-dried for 4-6 days (not more
than that it could later shoot dead) . This medicinal plant
Curcuma be grown at the beginning of the rainy season to be easy to grow
and produced a large rhizome, plants should also be given shelter.
Land plants
in loose his first with a hoe or other tool, then made bed with a width
of 3-4 meters long and in accordance with the size of the land. Land surrounding the
medicinal plants that have been made scalable so that drainage is not
stagnant and rhizome rot. Planting holes are made by size 20 cm x length
20 cm width x depth of 20 cm with spacing 75 cm x 100 cm, at each
planting hole is inserted 2-3 kg of manure. Planting seeds can
also be done with the flow system along the bed, then spread manure in
the planting along the path, then enter the rhizomes of medicinal plant
seedlings 7.5-10 cm deep with the buds facing upwards
Plant
maintenance is done by dressing the weeds as much as 2-5 times until the
harvest, depending on weed growth. While the fetal development of land carried out
when there are a lot of rhizome growth protruding from the ground.
Harvest time is best for this type of drug crops at the age of 11-12
months as a result more and better quality. Obar advised not to harvest
the crop was at the age of 7-8 months because the results have not been
maximized. Harvesting is done by digging or disassemble the soil
around the rhizome with a fork or hoe.
Picture - making beds
CONTENT AND BENEFITS
The main content of medicinal plants Curcuma
rhizomes are proteins, carbohydrates, and volatile oil consisting of
kamfer, glucoside, turmerol, and curcumin. Curcumin is useful as an
anti-inflammatory and anti hepototoksik (anti poisoning bile). Medicinal
plants for pharmacological effects of Curcuma, hepatoprotective (liver
disease), cholesterol lowering, anti-inflammatory, laxative, diuretic,
and eliminate joint pain. Another benefit that is, increased appetite,
launched a breastfeeding, and cleaning the blood. Besides its use as an
herbal and medicinal, medicinal plant Curcuma is also used as a source
of starch and carbohydrates by taking her, and then processed into puree
food for babies and people who experience digestive problems. On the
other hand, a medicinal plant Curcuma also contain toxic compounds that
can ward off mosquitoes, because these plants yield essential oil
containing linelool, namely geraniol phenol group which has repellan
mosquito Aedes aegypti.
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