Tamarind (Tamarindus indica, Linn.)
Description:
Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is a tropical cultivars and fruiting plants including peas. Loud enough trunk can grow to be large and shady leaves. Loud enough trunk can grow to be large and shady leaves. Tamarind leaves long-stemmed, about 17 cm and finned even. The flowers are yellow and reddish brown fruit pods with a distinctive sour taste. Inside the pods are in addition to skin that wraps the flesh of the fruit, seeds are also numbered 2-5 are shaped flat with somewhat blackish brown color.
Local Name:
Tamarind (UK), Tamarinier (France); acid Java (Indonesia), Celangi, talisman tamarind (Sunda); Asem (Java);
Curable Disease:
Asthma, Cough, Fever, hot pain, Rheumatic, abdominal pain, morbili; Allergy / biduren, Sprue, new wounds, sores ulcers, eczema, ulcers; Swelling stung by a centipede / bees, snakes can bite, hair loss;
Utilization:
1. Asthma
Ingredients: 2 pieces tamarind bark, fennel taste pulawaras
Method: The second material is boiled with 1 liter of water
to boiling, then filtered.
Mrnggunakan way: drink 2 times a day
2. Hacking cough
Ingredients: 3 pods of tamarind fruit, ½ handful sage leaves
Method: The second material is boiled with 4 cups water
to boil down to 1 cup and filtered
How to use: drinked 2 times a day, morning and afternoon
3. Fever
Ingredients: 1 handful of tamarind leaves, fennel pulawaras to taste;
Method: The second material is boiled with ½ liter of water
to boiling, then filtered
How to use: drinked 2 times a day, morning and afternoon
4. Fever
Ingredients: 2 pieces tamarind pods that have been cooked, the salt
to taste
Method: The second ingredient is brewed with 1 cup water
heat, then filtered
How to use: drinked ordinary
Note: for pregnant women should not drink this recipe
5. Rheumatic
Ingredients: 1 handful of tamarind leaves, tamarind seed 2-3 (klungsu =
java)
Method: The second material is finely ground
How to use: used to compress the affected part
6. Stomach ache
a. Ingredients: 3 pods of tamarind fruit is ripe, whiting
and eucalyptus oil to taste
How to make: all ingredients are thoroughly mixed
How to use: used as a liniment, especially
in the abdomen
b. Ingredients: 3 pods of tamarind fruit, a piece of palm sugar
Method: The second ingredient is brewed with 1 cup water
heat, then filtered
How to use: drinked ordinary
c. Ingredients: 2 pieces tamarind pods, turmeric rhizome of a mother
finger, a piece of palm sugar
Method: Turmeric shredded, then mixed with the material
other ingredients and brewed with 1 cup hot water, then
filtered
How to use: drinked ordinary
7. Morbili
Ingredients: 1-2 pieces of tamarind fruit that has been cooked, 2 rhizome
turmeric for thumb
Method: grated turmeric, then the two materials
thoroughly mixed
How to use: used as a powder / liniment for
patients morbili
8. Allergy / biduren (Java)
Ingredients: 2-3 golong tamarind fruit that was old, salt
to taste, ¼ tablespoon whiting.
How to make: all ingredients are boiled in 3 cups water
to boil down to 2 cups and filtered
How to use: drinked 2 times a day, morning and afternoon
9. Sprue
Ingredients: 2 pieces tamarind pods, 2 ginger rhizome for mother
finger, a piece of palm sugar
How to make: all the ingredients are boiled until boiling
to 1 cup, and then filtered
How to use: drinked ordinary
10. New injuries
Ingredients: tamarind leaves to taste
Method: tamarind leaves chewed until creamed
How to use: placed on the wound
11. Ulcerative wounds
Materials: some tamarind seeds (klungsu = java)
Method: finely ground tamarind seed
How to use: placed on the wound, then bandage
12. Eczema and Boils
Ingredients: 1 handful of tamarind leaves are still young (sinom =
Java), 2 turmeric rhizome of thumb
How to make: both ingredients until finely ground
How to use: placed on the sick
13. Swollen from a bee sting or a centipede
Ingredients: 3-5 seeds tamarind and eucalyptus oil to taste
Method: finely ground tamarind seed
How to use: the swelling cleaned
first with a cloth moistened with eucalyptus oil,
then sprinkled / plastered with tamarind seeds bubukan
them.
14. Preventing hair loss
Materials: some tamarind seeds
How to use: before shampooing with shampoo, head
dimasase beforehand with water.
Composition:
CHEMISTRY CONTENT: Fruit tamarind pods contain chemical compounds such as apple acid, citric acid, sour grapes, tartaric acid, succinic acid, pectin and invert sugar. Tamarind fruit that ripen on the tree of which contains the value of calories by 239 cal per 100 grams, 2.8 grams of protein per 100 grams, 0.6 grams of fat per 100 grams, 62.5 grams carbohydrate per 100 grams, calcium 74 milligrams per 100 grams, 113 milligrams of phosphorus per 100 gram, 0.6 milligrams of iron per 100 grams, vitamin A 30 SI per 100 grams, vitamin B1 0.34 milligrams per 100 grams, 2 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 grams. Skins and seeds contain phlobatannnin albuminoid and starch-containing seeds.
