In the world of herbal and traditional medicine, the leaves of the broken glass plant are increasingly popular thanks to its various health benefits, where this plant is known by another name Ruellia tuberosa and is also known in our language as keji beling or broken glass because this plant is our favorite plant in childhood to pick the fruit so we can see the fruit explode or break in the water. Now this plant is widely used in traditional medicine, its leaves have great potential as a natural ingredient to maintain body health.
Good evening, friends of #amazingnature, wherever you are. I hope you are all healthy and happy so you can go about your daily activities as usual. I hope you all have a pleasant day.
In this simple blog, I will share a plant I mentioned in a previous blog. This plant is known in our language as "pecah beling" or "biji beling."
This plant was one of my favorites as a child. My friends and I used to go into the green world to find this plant and then pick its fruit to play with.
My friends...
When I was a child, there were no gadgets in my area, so we spent our time playing traditional games. We also spent some time outdoors, observing and seeking out fun activities with friends. One of them was watching the wild fruit explode, which I'm sharing here.
So, keep following my simple blog to learn about this wild plant and its few benefits.
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| Originating from Southeast Asia, this plant thrives in tropical areas such as in my country (Indonesia). This plant has dark green leaves with serrated edges and a slightly hairy surface. The stems tend to be soft and grow creeping, making it very easy to recognize among other plants and I personally find it very easy to find this plant growing wild in my plantation. | Originaria del sudeste asiático, esta planta prospera en zonas tropicales como mi país (Indonesia). Tiene hojas de color verde oscuro con bordes aserrados y una superficie ligeramente vellosa. Sus tallos suelen ser blandos y rastreros, lo que facilita su identificación entre otras plantas. Personalmente, me resulta muy fácil encontrarla creciendo de forma silvestre en mi plantación. |
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| The leaves of this plant contain various active compounds that are beneficial for health, including flavonoids, saponins, alkaloids, tannins, and terpenoids, where the combination of these compounds makes the leaves of this plant very valuable in the world of herbal medicine, where some of its health benefits are that it can detoxify the body, lower blood sugar levels, treat kidney stones, reduce the risk of cancer, and act as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic. | Las hojas de esta planta contienen diversos compuestos activos beneficiosos para la salud, como flavonoides, saponinas, alcaloides, taninos y terpenoides. La combinación de estos compuestos hace que las hojas de esta planta sean muy valiosas en el mundo de la medicina herbal, donde algunos de sus beneficios para la salud son la desintoxicación del organismo, la reducción de los niveles de azúcar en sangre, el tratamiento de cálculos renales, la disminución del riesgo de cáncer y su acción antiinflamatoria y analgésica. |
My friend...
This plant has very beautiful flowers. In this picture, you can see the flowers of this plant which have striking colors and beauty that is pleasing to the eye.
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| Because it grows very densely and the color of its leaves is dark green, it attracts many insects such as grasshoppers to land in the plant area. You can also see the flowers of this plant that have not fully bloomed in some of the pictures above. | Debido a su crecimiento denso y al color verde oscuro de sus hojas, atrae a muchos insectos, como saltamontes, que se posan en la planta. En algunas de las imágenes anteriores también se pueden apreciar las flores de esta planta que aún no han florecido por completo. |
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| Next, I decided to pick some of the old fruits of the plant, which I chose were already brown in color to show you all how happy I was as a child when I saw the fruit of this plant explode when it came into contact with water. | A continuación, decidí recoger algunos de los frutos viejos de la planta, que elegí que ya estaban marrones para mostrarles a todos lo feliz que me sentía de niño cuando veía cómo el fruto de esta planta explotaba al entrar en contacto con el agua. |
My friend...
When I was little, my friends and I made this plant our game with the popping sound it made when the fruit was put in water.
At that time we didn't know gadgets, but at that time, we spent our days very happily.
The fruit of this plant is in the form of long pods which turn dry brown when ripe. When this dry fruit is exposed to water or when it is damp it will explode and release its seeds, creating a sound (tek-tek) or (melektik). This simple thing is what attracts our attention and makes us travel to the open nature to look for the fruit of these plants.
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| This is what the fruit of this plant looks like, where you can see the small seeds contained in the fruit which is shaped like a long pod. | Así es como luce el fruto de esta planta, donde se pueden ver las pequeñas semillas que contiene, y que tiene forma de vaina alargada. |
And right now, I feel like I'm reminiscing about my childhood, when my friends and I would go to local plantations to pick the fruit of this plant, just to see that simple thing that made us so happy. What wonderful times it was! 😅😅
Well, my friends, those are some pictures and a short article on my blog this time about a plant that has quite a lot of benefits in the world of herbal health. Besides, this plant was also famous and popular in my childhood, where we played with it because of the popping sound it made when the fruit was placed in water.
I hope you all enjoy and are entertained by this simple blog. Please leave your comments, support, and input, which will mean a lot to me so I can create a better blog in the future.
That's all for now.
Greetings everyone.
See you in my next blog.
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| Photography | Pletekan (Ruellia tuberosa) |
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