A joke among the community that the color purple is identical to "Widow". Is that true? What we want to talk about this time is not the term widow but a purple flower with a myriad of benefits. Maybe we are all familiar with this climbing plant because it can be found anywhere. The plant is called "Telang" or "Bunga Telang". The Latin name for the telang flower is Clitoria Ternatea, a plant that grows climbing originating from tropical areas in Asia of course. It is said that according to its origin, this flower comes from Ternate, Maluku Indonesia. Another name for this flower is Butterfly pea flower. In the Ternate community itself, it is called "Telang" because the shape of this plant is similar to the shape of female genitals (Google Source)
The characteristics of this plant have striking blue petals mixed with purple and white, the shape is slightly funnel-like and if the flowers have withered and fallen, they are replaced by the emergence of seeds in the form of nuts. So the process of spreading butterfly pea flowers with seeds. If the seeds are old, which come from the nuts, they will fall and grow again where the seeds fall or elsewhere. Then, the small oval-shaped leaves are green in color according to the size of the flowers when they bloom. This plant has a life cycle of 30-40 days from planting to covering the soil and within 110-150 days the seeds will appear.
The benefits of this flower are numerous, based on the data I obtained from various sources there are at least 11 benefits ranging from being rich in antioxidants, can reduce weight, overcome hair loss, prevent cancer, facilitate urination, detoxify, facilitate menstruation, cure skin diseases, cure boils, and can also be used as eye medicine. The way to process this flower can be made into herbal tea, it can also be brewed into water so that the extract of the purple butterfly pea flower is obtained. While the Acehnese people generally process butterfly pea flowers is still limited to making drinks.
Based on the results of the research, the vitamin content in telang flowers is vitamin C, vitamin B1 (Thiamine), and Vitamin B2 (Ribiflavin), in addition to containing vitamins, telang flowers also contain anthocyanins and other flavonoids, kaemferol and apigenin, as well as minerals. (source https://regene.ai/id/articles)
