Soothing cumin

Cumin (cuminum cyminum) in everyday life are often used for cooking. In addition, white cumin seeds are also used as a complement to traditional herb medicine. Cumin seeds have a fragrant aroma and exciting, refreshing.

Cumin can grow well in cool temperate areas, such as in northern India near the foot of the Himalayas. In Indonesia, although it can grow, but generally not good. Cumin has a wooden stick and leaves arranged in a circle and overlap. Cumin leaves have leaf midrib like little twigs. Cumin leaf shape sheet intangible, but more like the threads of rigid and short. Dominant color is green plants and flowers are small dark yellow stalk is supported by the rather long.

Leaves for high blood

Who would have thought, bay leaves are usually only for flavoring food, it contains properties to cure many diseases. Mendangung husband leaves asiri it can shed cholesterol and some other diseases, such as diabetes, ulcers, diarrhea and high blood pressure. Great is not it?

Greetings or Syzygium Polyantahum cholesterol than efficacious as a laxative, it may also be indicated cure, diabetes, high blood pressure, stomach ulcers and diarrhea. Efficacy was not separated from their chemical content. In some studies, found a number of substances such as essential oils, tannins, flavonoids, sitral, and euganol.

Fart leaves the interpreter recovered

Perhaps not many people know these kinds of medicinal plants. Or, if know, not many people take advantage of his usefulness. In fact, this is a great plant, as its name implies, is able to cure many chronic diseases, herpes, sore ears, sore stomach, until the jaundice.

This stemmed climbing plants, woody base, 3-5 m long. Growing wild in the open field, in the bush or river bank, sometimes propagated on the fence as a medicinal plant and can be found from 1-2. 1 00 m dpi. Single leaf, stemmed 1-5 cm in length, lies opposite, round shape to oval or oblong eggs. Leaves heart-shaped base, pointed tip, flat edge, 3 to 12.5 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, upper surface hairy or bald, bone pinnate leaves, when crushed smells of farts. The flowers are arranged in a panicle of compound interest, out of the armpit leaf or tip branching. White petals, the inner tube dark purple. Fruit round, yellow, shiny, 4-6 mm long. The leaves are eaten as Ialab or disayur. Propagation by stem cuttings or seed.

Calincing, for high blood

Creeping or erect plant height of 5-35 cm, grows wild in damp places, open or shaded on the side of the road or grass. In Java, there are plants from the beach to the mountains with an altitude of 3,000 meters above sea level.

Have soft stems and branches. Compound leaves that child menjari three heart-shaped leaves with light green color. Flowers out of the armpit leaves, yellow umbrella-shaped pieces. A box of fruit oval, erect, the edges like a beak, brown when ripe red that broke when touched.

Quite a banana

First, the apple fruit is often claimed as a drug. An apple a day will keep the doctor away for thirty days. But, later emerging competitors apples. Banana, believed to be more nutritious than apples. Because the fruit also contains potassium and sodium in the levels of good fit for the health of the organs.

Many agencies are recommending this as a complementary banana menu. Finally, the Food and Drug Administration - POM its United States - called the banana is a source of potassium and low sodium which helped reduce the risk of high blood pressure and stroke. Bananas are claimed to contain 350 mg of potassium and low sodium 140 mg per fruit size. Bananas are also low in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol.
"Matching the right to the heart healthy diet and high blood pressure," a report by FDA recently.

Sodium is an essential source of nutrition. Sodium is found almost exclusively in the extracellular tissue in the body and is involved in the psychological reactions of the body. A person to reduce salt (sodium chloride) - among others through perspiration - to combat high blood pressure.

The high sodium does have an impact on high blood pressure. In addition, also impact on heart health and stroke. The recommended sodium per day - according to your standard - is 500 mg per day up to a maximum of 2,400 mg.

Potassium is found in almost all parts of the body, in the form of a balanced electrolyte. Potassium plays an important role in the activity of the heart muscle and is found in almost all metabolic processes. Experiments on animals show an indication of the risk of fatal stroke associated with low potassium this. The higher levels of potassium, the risk of heart attack and stroke are lower.

Ministry of Health United States recommends 3.5 grams of potassium per day to reduce the risk of this stroke. He advocated the bananas consumed at least one per day, especially for seniors of all races.
Well, really cheap for a healthy.

Beads and white flowers

So far, only a betel leaf decoction is known to treat vaginal discharge and reduce mucus in the vagina. In fact, many other herbs that have similar properties. One is a flower beads, a potent and eliminate odor vaginal discharge in female sex organs.

This plant is a large plant, annual, to 2 m high, the soil has a thick rhizome like parsnip. Large leaves and large, clear nyirip green (there is a colored tengguli). Large flowers with bright colors (red, yellow) are arranged in series form bunches. Kendaga pieces of fruit, seeds many, round. Almost invariably grown as an ornamental plant, but grows wild in the forests and mountains to an altitude of 1,000 above sea level. The other type, Canna edulis to Gawl. (Ganyong) has a smaller flower petals, green leaves with a ping over tengguli tengguli. Planted as an ornamental plant, the rhizome can be eaten, in Australia as a producer of wheat, known as "aArowroot of Queensland".

Becareful with the salt

Be careful with the salt

Vegetables like less salt! The term is apparently now starting to be less popular, at least in modern society is very concerned with his health. Now, salt is no longer a friend of food. In fact, the use of salt has been limited to a minimum. What causes the salt so despised?

The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) recently revealed that consuming too much salt can lead to high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke.

According to the study, people generally consume 9 grams of salt per day. SACN recommends salt intake should be no more than 6 grams per day. Meanwhile, for children one to six years in salt intake should be limited to 2 grams per day. Meanwhile, children aged seven to 14 years are encouraged to consume a maximum of 5 grams of salt.