RANBUTAN

RANBUTAN IN INDONESIA

Why is this fruit called rambutan? Maybe because its main characteristic a lot of hair. If the fitting season, the fruit is easily found on the roadside with a lightweight price. In fact, outside of Java could be worthless. Usually, people know him only as a fruit or sweets made. However, it turns out this plant can also for treatment.
Know Rambutan
Rambutan (Nephelii lappacei) is widely planted as a fruit tree, sometimes found as wild plants, especially outside Java. These tropical plants require a humid climate with annual rainfall of at least 2000 mm. rambutan is a lowland plant to a height of 300-600 asl.
These plants are usually between 15-25 m tall, branching, and green leaves. Fruits are round oval, 3-5 cm long with spines temple (hair) limp until stiff.
Green rind, and a yellow or red when ripe. Thick fruit walls. Seeds elliptical, wrapped in transparent white flesh of edible and contain lots of water. Taste varies from sour to sweet. Woody seed coat thin.
Generally rambutan at the end of the dry season flowering and fruit shape in the wet season, around November to February. Rambutan also has many kinds of them Ropiah, The Tiger, The Mistress, Lebak Bulus and Binjei. Propagation through seeds, patch budding and grafting.
Ingredients and Benefits
This fruit contains carbohydrates, protein, fat, phosphorus, iron, calcium and vitamin C. Fruit skins contain tannins and saponins. Seeds contain fat and polyphenols. The leaves contain tannins and saponins. Bark contains tannins, saponins, flavonida, pectic substance, and iron.
These plant parts that can be used as medicine are the fruit skin is used to overcome dysentery and fever, bark used to treat canker sores, the leaves used to treat diarrhea and black hair, roots used to treat fever, and the seeds used to treat diabetes (diabetes mellitus ).
How to Use and Examples.
For drugs taken, there is no dosage recommendation. For external use, milled leaves served until smooth, then add a little water. Then the feelings of water can be used for hair care. As examples of its use are as follows:
Dysentery
Rambutan fruit skin (10 pieces) are washed, then dippotong pieces as needed. Then add 3 cups of clean drinking water, then boiled until the water remaining half. Once cool, filtered and taken 2 times a day, each three-fourths cup.
Fever
Rambutan skin that has been dried (15 g) was washed. Then added 3 cups water, and boil until boiling for 15 minutes. Once cool, filtered and taken 3 times a day, each third section.
Hair Care
Rambutan leaf sufficiently washed, then crushed into powder. A little water is added, stirring rate until it becomes dough like mush. Then, squeezed and didisaring with a piece of cloth. The collected water is used to moisten the scalp. This is done every day until you see the results.
Diabetes
Rambutan seeds (5 seeds) fried sangran (sangria), and then milled to a powder. Then, one cup of brewed with hot water. After the cold water is taken at once. Do it 1-2 times a day.
Sprue
Rambutan bark (3 knuckles) are washed, then boiled with 2 cups water until remaining one glasses. Then used to rinse while warm.
Not unexpectedly, it turns out this redhead has medicinal properties too. No harm in trying. For those who have extensive perkarangan, why not try to plant it? In addition to easy and cheap, too quickly bear fruit. One more, can be used as a collection of medicinal plants of the family.