About Lengkuas
Lengkuas, (Alpinia galanga) is a type of tuber plants that can live in the highlands and lowlands. Generally people use it as a mixture of cooking spices and traditional medicine. The utilization of lengkuas for cooking by rhizoming is then dipped into the mixture of cooking, whereas for traditional medicine which is widely used is red lengkuas (alpinia purpurata) K Schum.
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Lengkuas is a vertical terna height of 2 m or more. The young trunk comes out as a bud from the base of the old stem. The entire stem is covered with a leaf midrib. Its stem is a quasi-shaped type. Single leaf, short stem, elongated lance-shaped leaves, pointed ends, blunt stems, and flat edges. The size of the leaves is: 25-50 cm × 7-15 cm. The leaves are 15-30 cm long, grooved, and green. Flowering is a clump in bunches that are long-stemmed, erect, and gathered at the end of the stalk. The number of flowers on the bottom more than on the stalk, and elongated pyramid shape. The petals are bell-shaped, greenish-green.
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The flower crowns are still buds at the white end of the color, and the bottom is green. The fruit includes bunions, round, hard, and green when young, and brown, when it is old. Umbinya smells nice, there is white, there is also a red. According to its size, there are also small ones. Therefore, there are three cultivars that are distinguished by the color and size of the rhizome. The rhizome is creeping, fleshy, shiny, distinctively flavored, rough-grained, and spicy if old. To get a young rhizome that has not much fiber, the harvest is done when the plant is 2.5-4 months.
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10 Benefits of Lengkuas for Health :
- Overcome digestive problems
- Maintain brains health
- As an antioxidant
- As an antibacterial
- As an anti-inflammatory
- Improve the function and sperm count
- Prevent cancer
- Prevent premature aging
- Treating burns
- Treating fever