Description:
Posture: herb, grass, creeping, 30-180 cm tall. Trunk: rhizome, creeping under the soil, forming a single inflorescence stems erect, solid, in his book rarely hairy. Leaves: single, base close to each other, strands, ribbon-shaped, sharp pointed tip, straight, coarse, hairy rarely, size 12-80 cm. x 35-18 cm. Flowers: composition compound compound grains, rather furl, 6-28 cm long, each branch has 2 grain, 2.5 to 5 cm branch, flower stalks 1-3 mm, gluma 1; tip of ciliated, 3-6 veins, Lemma 1 (chaff); broad ovate, short cilia from 1.5 to 2.5 mm. Lemma 2 (husk), elongated, tapering from 0.5 to 2.5 mm. Palea (husks); 0.75 to 2 mm. Stamens: anthers 2.5 to 3.5 mm, yellowish white or purple. Stigma: the stigma of feather-shaped. Fruit: type rice. Seed: shape elliptic, 1 mm long. Flowering time: January to December. Regional distribution, Habitat and Cultivation: In Java grew at a height of up to 2700 m asl, in areas of open or half closed, the marsh; in soil with good aeration, in areas which open out, on the banks of the river; extensive secondary forests; area burned; as a weed in fields, gardens and plantations. This plant can influence the cultivation of other crops, because it needs a relatively high sodium. Multiplication: multiply by itself. Every time the roots are harvested from plants that have been mature. Pale-colored rhizome good, taste sweet and cool. Reed to menuyebabkan decrease soil pH. The amount of decrease in pH and barriers to the process of nitrification showed a positive correlation with the growth of reeds.
Curable Disease:
Rhizome: skin softener; facilitating urine, blood cleansers, appetite enhancer, stop the bleeding. in addition it can be used also in treatment efforts venereal diseases (gonorrhea, blood urine, lion king), kidney disease, injury, fever, high blood pressure and nerve disease. All parts of plants used as animal feed, paper materials, and for the treatment of ringworm. BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PHARMACOLOGY infusa and reed rhizome effect as a diuretic, on the basis of increasing concentrations of electrolytes (Na, K, Cl) male white rat urine. Giving infusa reed roots with a dose of 40, 50, 60, 70 g / kg antipyretic effect on the guinea pig. Infusa reed flowers at a concentration of 10% with a dose of 12 ml / kg antipyretic effect of paracetamol suspensions are relatively equal to 10% in pigeons. Clinical test: Dekokta reed roots with dose 250-300 g, 2 times morning and evening to cure 27 cases from 30 patients with acute nephritis. In chronic nephritis, herbaceous weeds can reduce edema and lower blood pressure. Dekokta herbs 250 g in the singular or combined with roots and leaves of Nelumbo nucifera and Agrimonia pilosa leaves to treat epistaxis (nosebleeds), haemoptysis (coughing up blood), hematuri (urinating blood), menorrhagia, and upper gastrointestinal bleeding. In addition it was reported also that Dekokta reed roots can be effective for the treatment of acute viral hepatitis in 28 cases; usually used together with Plantago asiatica, Glechoma longituba and Artemisia capillaris buds. Toxicity: In the use according to the rules, practically not toxic. Securities not dfinginkan: Dizziness, nausea, increased bowel movements curiosity, sometimes occurs in clinical use. Pharmaceutical Technology: Cellulose leaf weeds on the water absorption has a relatively well in the manufacture of tablets by direct compression.
PART USED:
Only the roots (rhizomes) used for the treatment of
EXAMPLE OF USAGE IN THE COMMUNITY:
As a laxative urine:
49 dried rhizome, cut into pieces and then added with 2 cups of water and boiled until the volume of water to 1 cup, filtered, then taken 2 times a day.
Fever due to bloody urination:
1 tablespoon full of reed rhizome, boil with a few pieces of pliers kwe (half-ripe fruit flesh beligu made candied dried) in two glasses of water to live up to half. This drink 2 glasses of water a day. Urine will be normal and the body temperature down.
"Zwartwaterkoorts" (BLD):
Drinking boiled water as tea alang grass roots.
