Mustache cat (Orthosiphon aristatus Bl. Miq.) Or remujung from the Labiatea tribe is a bush plant. The height can reach 1.5 m.
The trunk is square, short or bare. The leaves are oblong, the edges are jagged.
The flowers are bunches that come out at the end of a pale purple or white branch. The sari bed is longer than the flower tube.
Cat's mustache is anti-inflammatory and improves urine.
The content of ostosifonin and potassium salts (especially on the leaves), is a major component that helps the dissolution of uric acid, phosphate, and oxalate in the human body, especially in the bladder, bile, and kidneys so as to prevent the occurrence of kidney stone deposits.
The content of saponins and tannins on the leaves can also treat vaginal discharge.
Usefulness and use
Painful urination:
How I: Bring a dash of dried cat whiskers and drink like a tea, may be given palm sugar.
Method II: 1 spoon leaf mustache kudisdilumatkan, 7 sticks meniran, boil with two cups water until water half live. Drink boiled water is 3x a day.
Kidney stones:
Way I: 25 g leaf cat whiskers, 25 g leaf ngokilo, 25 g leaves meniran with its roots, 25 g leaf shrunken, washed. Boil with 4 cups water to boiling. Drink boiled water it in a day.
Way II: 3 handful of cat whiskers leaves, 5 pieces of shrewd leaf shard washed, boiled with 2 glasses of water. Drinking water 2x a day, morning and afternoon, for 10 days. After 10 days, replace with corn stew water, 1x a day. Avoid eating mutton, durian, and spicy foods.
Rheumatism: a small spoonful of cat's whiskers leaves, 1 tablespoon minced leaves crushed, boiled with a glass of water until the water stays 3/4. Strain. Then drunk.
whiskers mustache washed clean. Boil it with a glass of water. After boiling, let one night, just drunk.
Kidney inflammation: 40 pieces of flowers and the leaves of a cat's whiskers, 3 old wuluh belimbing washed, mashed. Brewed with 2 glasses of water. Drink 3x a day. Do it for a week.
Cold wind: 1 spoon of cat whiskers washed and boiled with a glass of water until the water was half. Drunk at once.
Fever: 100 g root cat mustache washed, boiled with 3 glasses of water. After boiling, strain, and take the water. Drink this boiled water 1 cup a day.