sunflower properties

Sunflower is widely planted as an ornamental plant and also can be for health. Parts of plants that are often used for treatment are roots, leaves, flowers and seeds. Sunflower nutritious to treat urinary tract infections, inflammation of the airways (bronchitis), whooping cough (pertussis ), leucorrhoe. The flowers themselves are useful for the treatment of high blood pressure, relief of headache, dizziness, toothache, menstrual pain (dysmenorrhoe), gastric pain, breast inflammation (mastitis), rheumatic ( arthritis), difficult delivery.

Seeds can be used to increase appetite, lethargy, bloody ministers, measles, and headache. While the leaves are used to treat malaria.
Some ways of utilizing sunflower as a traditional medicine:

1. Treating Headaches
   Take 30 grams of sunflower, then boil with a chicken egg (do not solved). Boil in 3 cups water until remaining 1/2 cup. Then boiled water is drunk after eating twice a day.

2. Treating rheumatism
   To treat rheumatism, boil 1 stalk of sunflower head until it becomes kanji. Then attach the kanji to the affected part such as using an ointment.

3. Treating dysentery
   30 grams of sunflower seeds, then steamed for about 1 hour. Once cool, add enough sugar to the stone, then drink.

4. Launch defecation and small
   If you have difficulty defecating or difficult to urinate, boil 15-30 grams of fresh roots, then drink the water. Insya Alloh everything will be smooth again.

5. Urinary tract infections
   Boil 30 grams of fresh roots of sunflower. When it will boil, immediately lifted and drink while still warm.