IndonesiaAndong plants are shrubs that are included from the tribe of onion-bawangan plants. This herbaceous plant habitat is located in the lowlands up to 1,900 altitude of sea surface. This andong plant has a length of 2-4 meters upright. This andong plant is rarely branching. The shape of stems andong round hard plant with the former leaf-shaped leaves. This single-leaved plant is leaf-colored brown leaf. The location of the leaf andong plants spread on the stems are gathered at the end of the stem with a crammed position and spiral arranged to form a rosette stem. Long leaf andong tree-length leaves with length of 20-60 cm and width of 5-13 cm. The tip of the leaf base of the pointed andong plant, flat edges, pinnate leaf repeating and gilt-shaped leaf shape. Flowers andong plants shaped panicle shoots, flowers out of the armpit of leaves with a size of 30 cm. The flowers are green and purple green. The fruit of the andong plant has the name of buni. The fruit of this andong plant is shaped like a ball with a shiny red color and blackish seeds. The cultivation of this andong plant is multiplied by way of cuttings or separation of shoots.
Andong Plant Content
Andong plants contain saponins, tannins, flavonoids, polyphenols, steroids, polysaccharides, calcium oxalate, and iron.
Properties and Benefits of Andong Plants
Soybean flavor is sweet, fresh and cool. Andong plant efficacious as blood conditioning, stop bleeding (hemostatis), and break the blood in the bruised frozen.
Part of Andong Plants Used
Leaves and Rods
Andong Plant Health Benefits
Andong plants are used to treat pulmonary TB disease with a bloody cough.
Andong plant is useful as a remedy out of blood spots during pregnancy (possible miscarriage)
Andong plant as a cure for menstruation.
Andong plant efficacious to treat bloody urine (hematuria).
Andong plant to treat hemorrhoid disease.
Andong plant is useful for treating bloody wound disease
Andong plant is used as a medicine for diarrhea.
Andong plants to treat dysentery (dysentery and nausea).
Andong plant is useful to treat stomach pain and