This Satintail (Alang-alang) has spesial property for your health

I don't really know about the term of Alang-alang or Ilalang (in bahasa - red) in english, but after I search in https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alang-alang the terms of Alang-alang was bladygrass, cogongrass, speargrass silver - spike or commonly called satintail , referring to the white -haired of flower smooth panicles. Yeah, these plant is a kind of sharp -leaved grass , which often become a weed in farmland. The Dutch named snijgras, because the sharp leaves injured.

Alang - alang / satintail have a long flowering period and occur every month from January to December . Reed plant widely cultivated in Java and grown at altitudes up to 2700 m above sea level. Can also be grown in areas open or half closed , the depleted areas is opened , the area burned , as weeds in fields , on the banks of rivers , marshes , on soils with good aeration , extensive secondary forests , parks and plantations. Reed plants can affect the cultivation of other crops , because of the relatively high sodium requirement

COMPOSITION / SUBSTANCE CONTENT ALANG-ALANG / SATINTAIL

Alang - Alang plant contains mannitol , glucose , sucrose , malic acid , citric acid , coixol , arundoin , cylindrene , cylindol A , graminone B , imperanene , stigmasterol , campesterol , beta - sitosterol , fernenol , arborinone , arborinol , isoarborinol , simiarenol , anemonin and tannins

BENEFITS OF ALANG-ALANG/SATINTAIL

Based on the research, it was found that the roots and leaves of the weeds are 5 kinds of flavonoid derivatives ie derivatives 3 ', 4', 7- trihidroksi flavones, 2 ', 3'- dihydroxy kalkon and 6-hydroxy flavanols.

A flavonoid derivatives which can be classified as flavones, flavonols substituted at 3-0H, flavanones or isoflavones contained in the extract fraction were dissolved in ethyl acetate roots of the weeds. While the fraction of water-soluble extract of grass roots groups flavonoids obtained without free OH groups, flavones, flavonols substituted at 3-0H, flavanones, or isoflavones. While the roots of the weeds are metabolites which consists of arundoin, silindrin, simiarenol, fernenol, isoarborinol, kampesterol, stigmasterol, ß-sitosterol, skopolin, p-hidroksibenzaladehida, catechol, scopoletin, chlorogenic acid, acetic acid, oxalic acid, acid isoklorogenat , p-kumarat acid, neoklorogenat acid, D-malic acid, citric acid, potassium (0.75% of dry weight), a large amount of calcium and 5-hydroxytryptamine.

DRUG VIRTUE AND THE WORKINGS OF MEDICINAL ALANG-ALANG PLANTS

Flower infuse reeds at a concentration of 10% at a dose of 12 ml / kg antipyretic effect is relatively the same as paracetamol suspension 10% in pigeons. Infusa effect reed rhizome as diuretics, on the basis of an increase in the concentration of electrolytes (Na, K, Cl) white male mouse urine. Giving infuse roots of the weeds with a dose of 40, 50, 60, 70 g / kg antipyretic effect in guinea pigs.

Based on clinical trials found that Dekokta roots of the weeds at a dose of 250-300 g, 2 times morning and afternoon can cure 27 cases of 30 patients with acute nephritis. At chronic nephritis, herbaceous weeds can reduce edema and lowers blood pressure. Dekokta herbaceous 250 g in a single form or in combination with rhizomes and leaves of Nelumbo nucifera and leaf Agrimonia pilosa can cure epistaxis (nosebleeds), hematuria (blood urine), menorrhagia, hemoptysis (coughing up blood), and upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Also found that the roots of the weeds dekokta can treat acute viral hepatitis in 28 cases that are usually used together with Glechoma longituba, Plantago asiatica and shoots Artemisia capillaris. In the pharmaceutical world found that the cellulose contained in the leaves of reeds have a water absorption of relatively well in the tablet manufacture direct print.

Taste sweet grass roots , is cool , enter the meridian of the lungs, stomach and bladder. Satintail has tonic properties , fever reliever (anti- pyretic) , laxative urine (diuretics) , cooling blood to stop bleeding (hemostatic) , and relieve thirst . The young shoots efficacious for laxative urine (diuretics). Some of the benefits of reed as medicinal plants, among others, can treat : Swelling due to acute kidney inflammation , swelling due to hit, Treating infections in the digestive tract, bleeding in women, difficult urination or urinary continuously, fever that accompanied thirst , nerve Vein weakness, inflammation of the lungs , vaginal discharge in women, digestive disorders , heart disease, cough , flu , diarrhea , asthma, Gonorrhoea (gonorrhea), high blood pressure, bleeding due to the heat of the blood, such as nosebleeds, coughing up blood, vomiting blood, etc.

HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AND GATHERING ALANG-ALANG

To treat fever due bloody urination :

• Take 1 tablespoon full of alang-alang rhizome
• After that boil in two cups of water until half, first add a few pieces of tang kwe is half-cooked flesh beligu made ​​from dried candied 
• Potion ready to be served .
• Drink 2 cups in one day. 

For treatment as a laxative urine :

• Take 49 pieces of dry rhizome .
• After it is cut, Then add 2 cups of water .
• Then simmer until the volume of water to 1 cup .
• After it was filtered . Ready to be served and drink 2 times a day

As acute kidney disease drug :

• Take the roots of the weeds are fresh of approximately 60-120 grams, 
• Cut the grass roots into a small size, then wash and clean, 
• Boiled roots with as much as 3 cups of clean water, and let it stew boil wait until the remaining water to 1 cup, lifting Finally
• Let cool and strain the cooking water had to separate the dregs .
• Dosage: Take 2 times a day on a regular basis.