ACID

Tamarindus indica L.
(Suan Jiao)




This crop height 15-25 m, much branched, woody hard. Widely planted as cover crops along the highway or planted in the village-the village as a fruit crop. Originally, she had not known for certain, this plant is suspected of originating from tropical Africa and then spread to India and is now widely available in other tropical regions. Acids contained in lower mainland in an area that clearly kemaraunya dry season.

The leaves are compound pinnate leaves an even, long 5-13 cm, there are 10 -15 pairs of seats facing the child leaves, elliptical shape, its color is green, the color of the underside of the younger, both leaf surfaces smooth and slippery, the tip and base rounded, the edge average, the length of 1 to 2.5 cm, width 0.5 to 1 cm, with very short leaf stalk children almost sat.

Wreath-shaped bunches whose length is 2-6 cm, consists of 60-30 flowers are almost sitting, deep yellow, red, out of the armpit leaves or branch edges.

Fruit fruit pods, stemmed, elliptical, compressed, 3.5 -20 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, part of the pointy end there, between the seed is often narrower, outer walls brittle, light brown color. Seeds 1-12, brown, shiny, flesh of the fruit taste sour.

Acid fruit throughout the year, propagated through seeds and vegetatively.


CHEMICAL NATURE AND EFFECT PHARMACOLOGICAL
• Fruit: sweet, sour, cool, laxatives, appetite increase, Conditioning, heat reduction, abortivum.
• Bark: astringent, tonic
• Leaves: heat reduction, pain relief, antiseptic.


CHEMICAL CONTENT
• Fruit: dula invert, tartaric acid, citric acid, 1-malic acid, pipecolic acid, serine, beta-alanine, praline, phenylalanine, leucine.
• Leaves: sitexin, isovitexin, orientin, isoorientin, 1-malic acid.
• Bark: Tannin.


PART USED
Seedless fruit, leaves, bark, seeds


USEFULNESS
• Leaves: fever, rheumatism, jaundice, worms, ulceration, ulcers, eczema, wounds, ulcers, insomnia.
• Flesh fruit: constipation, alcohol poisoning, vomiting, fever, dysentery, weight loss, thrush, abortivum, less appetite, deworming, sore breasts.
• Bark: colic, sprue.


USAGE
• To drink: fruit without seeds 15-30 GRM simmering.
• Use outside: simmering, water for washing or powdered.


HOW TO USE
1. Breast Inflammation Kawak acid seedless sufficiently kneaded with water 3 tablespoons salt, used to plaster the affected breast, and then bandaged. Replace 2-3 times a day.
2. Ulcers.
• Fill beans finely ground to taste sour, lightly salted water. Plaster used for boils, and then bandaged. Replace two meals a day.
• Leaves acids and turmeric to taste finely ground, used to merurap ulcers.
3. Ulcers, wounds:
• ½ handheld young tamarind leaves, bitter leaves ¼ handheld, handheld ¼ chinese new leaf, bsebesar belinjo seeds, tamarind seeds for alum, washed and finely crushed, squeezed with 2 teaspoon eucalyptus oil and 4 tablespoons of coconut oil, heated briefly, to plaster ulcers. Replace two meals a day, each and every time would be used, heated briefly.
• Seeds of ground to powdered acid. Sown on the ulcers, then dressing.
• Leaves are dried and powdered. Sprinkle the wound or ulcer, and then bandaged.
4. Ekzema: third mobile young leaves, tamarind, turmeric finger first, third handheld ketepeng leaf china, three fingers terebak roots, washed and finely ditimbuk and squeezed with two tablespoons of oil jangkang. And plaster used to rub the affected skin and then bandaged ekzema. Replace two meals a day.
5. Sprue:
• 3 finger seedless tamarind, sour Trengguli two fingers, three fingers palm sugar, cleaned and cut into pieces as needed and then boiled with 3 clean water glass until remaining 2 ¼ cups. After chilling filtered and drunk. Three times a day, ¾ cup.
• Rinse with water-acid mouthwash.
• bark powder mixed with water, is used to gargle-gargle.
6. Tersa menstrual pain. Two fingers an old tamarind, turmeric rhizome ¾ finger, two fingers Trengguli acid, 8 kedaung fruit seeds, third Blumea leaf handheld, three palm sugar finger cleaned and cut into pieces as needed and then boiled with 3 clean water glass until remaining 2 ¼ cups. After chilling filtered and drunk, three times a day, ¾ cup.
7. Fever. Leaves taste dijuice or ground water and juice drink.
8. Rheumatism / swollen devastated. Leaves and turmeric to taste finely milled, brewed with a bit of hot water and then used to plaster the affected part. Seedless tamarind fruit are crushed up like porridge, heat briefly and then used to plaster the joints are sore.
9. Lose weight. Ripe fruit acid skin removed, flesh eaten.
10. Abortivum. Sam kawak added water, then drink.
11. Itching, biduran.
• Acid kawak for chicken eggs, the roots of ginger, palm sugar and 2 cups water, simmering until remaining 1 glass. After chilling filtered and drunk.
• 3 pieces of old sour, salt to taste ½ teaspoon water whiting, dogodok with 3 clean water glass until remaining 2 cups. After chilling filtered, then taken two times a day, a glass.
12. Prevent hair loss. Old fruit acid mixed with a little water, is used to massage your scalp (massage). Later hair washed with shampoo.
13. Swollen joints, sprains, scalded, scabies .. Adequate fresh leaf is washed and then crushed until soft like porridge. Turapkan to a hospital.
14. Eliminate rust teeth. Tamarind seeds roasted, then pounded until smooth. Rub the rusty teeth with a toothbrush cloth.
15. Insomnia. Leaf dikringkan acid, and then used to fill the head. Sleeping with pillows acid leaves.
16. Colic, indigestion. 1-2 grams of powdered bark brewed and then drunk.










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