Turmeric Plants
Turmeric (Curcuma domestica) is one of spices and medicinal plants. Almost every Indonesian and Indian and Asian nations generally have to consume this drug crops, either as a complement of cooking spices, herbs, or to maintain the health and beauty. Medicinal plants of turmeric is a spice commonly used in cooking in countries in Asia. Turmeric is often used in dishes like curries, and also used to give a yellow color to the dish.
Turmeric is already flowering
Turmeric cultivation of medicinal plants
Turmeric plant garden
Turmeric
cultivation is easy. Rhizomes
of plants that will be made should have sufficient seed is about 10
months old and weighs 20-30 g. Seeds should be planted that
have long shoots 2-3 cm. Prior to planting, soil
first processed in a way to fork and hoe in a place that will be
planted. Ground
processing should be performed at the beginning of the rainy season. Manure can be given as much
as 0.5 kg / planting hole and the optimal spacing is 50 cm x 50 cm and
depth of planting should be 7.5 cm - 10 cm, with the buds facing
upwards.
Each
planting hole should be at the contents with a single seed and the seed
is inserted, the planting hole re-covered with soil. To get the growth and rhizome production op-optimal, preferably
at the fertilizer plant with artificial fertilizers are SP36 and KCl at the beginning of each planting as much as 200 kg
/ ha and urea as much as 200 kg / ha are given as much three times, at
one / 3 doses at age 1 month, 2 months and 3
months after planting. Besides the efforts of plant maintenance are
also important, which can be done by way of weeding out weeds once every
two months and smoothed guludan.
Harvest
It is also very effective to
cure the flu / fever in pregnant mothers (not necessarily done every
day, usually 1-2 days already to get rid of), so avoid the use of
chemical drugs can be dangerous to the fetus at birth. When
consumed by pregnant women, infants born to be trusted net of fats that
are often attached to / covering the entire body of a baby.
The use of
turmeric instant, should not be done for treatment (especially for
pregnant mothers), because there are other contents that may be harmful
to the womb.
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Turmeric is usually harvested at the age of around 90-10 months.
How to harvest that is easy enough to use a fork
to dig rhizomes. Keep no broken rhizome left behind when excavated so
that the weight gained higher. After the fork, the soil around the
rhizomes are cleaned and rim-stage is collected in sacks. Usually the yields can reach 20-30 tons / ha of fresh rhizome.
APPLICATIONS
Tuber roots more than one year old used as a
remedy (corm roots are cooling, cleansing, particularly affecting the
abdomen in the stomach, stimulating, releasing excessive gas in the
intestines, stop bleeding and prevent blood clotting) other than that is
also used as an ingredient in cooking . Turmeric is also a medicinal plant used as anti-itch and
anti-spasm and reduce swelling oral mucous membrane. Turmeric
juice is consumed in the form of so-called filtrate, as well as
extracts drunk or used as a salve for mengubati swollen. Turmeric is also efficacious to treat nasal congestion, how to
burn the turmeric and inhale
Turmeric can be
used to cure some issues relating to irregularities in the kidneys,
especially for several cases which are marked with an unpleasant body
odor, and eyes that are not resistant to light, the use of turmeric is
very effective, that is by drinking a glass of juice, turmeric ( the
waste is disposed of), for two consecutive weeks.
Tuber / rhizome turmeric
How to use are simple:
1.
Grab handfuls of turmeric, then peel and rinse.
2. Grate or juice in a blender (regular water added to taste)
3. Let boil for a while (usually marked with the
expansion)
4. Add a little salt (tip of a spoon)
5. Strain /
Squeeze
6. Pour the lime juice (1-3 seeds, according to taste)
7. Add sugar or honey
8. Drinking (better in warm)
Should not drink after 5pm.
