Well tonight I want to share with you about a plants that have a lot of benefits for us, namely senduduk plants..

The Senduduk Flowers

This plant is commonly known by many people by the name of the Melastoma plant, this plant is a wild plant that has purple crowned flowers.

Senduduk plants have many names, especially in Indonesia itself which has many tribes on each island. Different tribes have different names, because in our country (Indonesia) there are many tribes so the name will also be different, like the Sundanese call it "Harendong", in Java the name "kluruk or senggani", and in Sumatra it is known as "senduduk "and there are still many names from this plant in various regions (Indonesia).

We often encounter Senduduk plants in the mountains and villages, these plants are also often called "village typical" plants.

throughout the villages on the island of Sumatra, Java island, to the island of Kalimantan, this plant is a wild plant like a shrub where this plant has beautiful flowers when it blooms with a purple crown. The shape is ovoid, the fruit and seeds are like fleshy capsules, about 6.5 – 11.5 mm long and 5 – 10.5 mm wide. When ripe, the fruit cracks.

The stature of this plant has a small tree, up to 5 meters high. The bark is brown. Young stems are rectangular and covered with scales. The base of the leaf is rounded to pointy and tapered at the tip.

The number of flower parts is usually 5, but they are also found in multiples of 6, 7 or 8. The calyx tube is bell-shaped and covered with flattened or slightly spread scales.

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Rich in Benefits

It is known that all people in Indonesia have long used this plant as vegetable ingredients and ingredients for traditional medicines. For example, in the western part of Java, in some of its traditional markets, there are still those who sell senduduk flowers, especially stamens, which are used as vegetable ingredients.

As for the treatment of this plant has properties as a wound medicine, both external and internal wounds. This typical village plant has efficacy as a wound medicine. The trick, the leaves are chewed, pounded, and rubbed on the wound as a paste, or finely chopped and squeezed. The juice is rubbed on the wound to stop the bleeding.

Not only that, the boiled water of the leaves can be used to treat smallpox scars by washing the wound. Senduduk is also useful as a remedy for dysentery and stomach ache. The young leaves are cleaned and then consumed raw.

Apart from that, it can also heal and strengthen the uterus for women who have just given birth by drinking the boiled water of the roots to stop bleeding in the uterus. And there are many other benefits of this Senduduk plant, among others:

• Can be used as a toothache medicine,
• Can overcome diarrhea,
• Can treat broken bones,
• Can treat digestive tract disorders,
• Can overcome diarrhea and canker sores.

Apart from being used as food and medicine, this plant can also be used as a coloring agent.

okay, all my friends, that's all from me, I hope you can add to your knowledge about senduduk plants, especially for plant lovers and for guests who have read my posts. I want to say goodbye and see you in the next useful post. Goodbye. See you soon 👋👋👋