Spinach (Amaranthus spp.) Is a plant commonly grown for its leaves eaten as greens. These plants come from tropical America but is now spread throughout the world. This plant is known as the vegetables are important sources of iron.
Spinach originated from tropical America. Until now, this plant has spread in tropical and subtropical regions around the world. In Indonesia, spinach can be grown all year round and is found at an altitude of 5-2000 m above sea level, to grow in hot and cold, but grew more fertile. lowland on open land where the air is rather hot. Herba year, upright or slightly inclined, from 0.4 to 1 m high, and branching. Stem weak and watery. Stemmed leaves, oval-shaped, weakness, 5-8 cm long, tip blunt, base tapering, and it's green, red, or green vaginal discharge. Interest in the skein of meetings, sitting at the bottom of the armpit, the top gathered into a bouquet of flowers at the end of the shaft and arm branching. Flower-shaped grains. Spinach sold in the market and commonly consumed as a vegetable known as spinach or spinach sekul scraped. There are three varieties of spinach that is included in Amaranthus tricolor, namely ordinary green spinach, red spinach (Blitum rubrum), which stems and leaves are red, white and spinach (Blitum album), a whitish green. For information, spinach leaves and red stems containing a red liquid. In addition to A. tricolor, there are other kinds of spinach, as spinach snapper (A. hybridus), spinach thorns (A.spinosus), and spinach kotok / spinach soil (A. blitum). Types of spinach are often cultivated is A. tricolor and A. hybridus whereas other species grow wild spinach. Harvest spinach unplug the longest for 25 days. After that, the quality will decrease because the leaves become stiff. Spinach can disayur nodes, made gado-gado, pecal, or boiled for salad. Sometimes, young spinach leaves and used the width well as peanut brittle materials. Spinach plants can be propagated by seed.
Composition:Spinach contains proteins, fats, carbohydrates, potassium, iron, amarantin, routine, purines, and vitamins (A, B and C).
In general, spinach plants increases bile production and digestion. The roots of red spinach efficacious as a cure dysentery. Spinach including fibrous vegetables that can be used to expedite the process of defecation. Fibrous food is highly recommended to be consumed by patients with colon cancer, people with diabetes (diabetes mellitus), high blood cholesterol, and lose weight. Infusion of red spinach leaves 30% of oral can raise levels of serum iron, hemoglobin, and hematocrit rabbits made anemic for real. This increase is not different when compared with the group fed rabbits sulfas ferosus. For comparison, use distilled water.
PART USED:Plant part used is the leaves and roots.
Indications:Spinach leaves is used for treatment:clean the blood after birth,strengthen the hair roots,low blood pressure,less blood (anemia), andkidney failure.
The root is used for treatment: dysentery
HOW TO USEFor drugs taken, provide 25-30 g of fresh leaves, then boiled and eaten as a salad. Apart from boiled spinach can also be blended to drink.For external use only, minced fresh spinach leaves until smooth, then put on the wounds caused by bites of venomous animals.
EXAMPLE OF USAGE IN PUBLIC:Increasing the kidneys, cleanse blood after birth Spinach can be consumed in the form of vegetable nodes.
AnemiaWash three handfuls of spinach leaves red, then mash until smooth. Add one tablespoon of lemon juice, then strain. Next, add one tablespoon of honey and a chicken egg yolk and stir until smooth, then this herb is drunk and treating> 7atan done once a day for a week. Furthermore, treatment can be done twice weekly until healed.
DysenteryWash the roots of 10 stems of red spinach thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Add the tip of a teaspoon of fine salt, stirring rate, then strain. For treatment, drinking water filter as well.
Strengthens the hair rootsWash the leaves and stems of one bunch fresh spinach thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Add the tip of a teaspoon of fine salt, stirring rate. Next, squeeze and strain, and drink as well. Do it 2-3 times a week.
NotePatients with blood uric acid levels are high enough and Rheumatic Gout spinach are prohibited from taking too much because these vegetables contain a fairly high purine. In the body, will be metabolized purines into uric acid.
For treatment, red amaranth are considered more nutritious than spinach green.
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