Kaempferia Galanga

Family: ZingiberaceaeDescription:Powder (Kaempferia galanga), including interest and Zingiberaceae plant classified as a medicinal plant species that have medicinal, fruit flesh most tender and not fibrous. Powder is a small terna that thrives in the lowlands or the mountains where the land is loose and not too much water. Kencur rhizome has a specific aroma. Kencur fruit flesh is white and brown outer skin. The number of strands of leaf kencur no more than 2-3 sheets with opposite arrangement. The flowers are arranged and a half sitting with flower crown amounted to between 4 to 12 pieces, lip berwara violet flowers with white color is more dominant. Kencur grow and develop in a particular season, ie during the rainy season. Powder can be planted in pots or in the garden is enough sunlight, not too wet and in the open.
 
Local Name:Powder (Indonesia, Java), Cikur (Sunda), Ceuko (Aceh); Kencor (Madura), Cekuh (Bali), Powder, Sukung (Minahasa); Asauli, sauleh, soul, umpa (Ambon), Cekir (Sumba);Curable Disease:Inflammation of the Stomach, Inflammation of the child's ear, Influenza in infants; Cold, Headache, Cough, blood Eliminate dirty; Diarrhea, Streamlining menstruation, sore eyes, sprains, fatigue;Utilization:1. Inflammation of the StomachIngredients: 2 rhizome kencur of your thumb.How to make: kencur skinned and chew thoroughly;How to use: swallow the water, the waste is disposed of, thendrink a glass of water, and repeated until healed.2. Child Ear InflammationIngredients: 2 rhizome kencur of your thumb and the nutmeg seed.Method: The second material is finely ground and given 2tablespoons warm water;How to use: applied / dibobokkan around the nose.3. Influenza in infantsIngredients: 1 rhizome kencur of your thumb and 2 bay leavescubeb (tailed pepper / Cubeb)Method: The second material is finely ground, thenplus a few tablespoons of warm water.How to use: applied / dibobokkan around the nose.4. Catch a coldIngredients: 1 rhizome kencur of your thumb and salt to taste.Method: kencur hulled clean.How to use: kencur eaten with salt to taste,then drink 1 glass of water putih.Dapat done 2 times a day.5. HeadacheIngredients: 2-3 pieces of leaves kencur.Method: kencur leaf until finely ground.How to use: applied (as compress / pilis) on the forehead.6. Cougha. Ingredients: 1 rhizome kencur of your thumb and salt to taste.Method: kencur grated, then add 1 cup of warm water, squeezed and filtered.How to use: drink with added salt to taste.b. Ingredients: 1 rhizome kencur of your thumb.How to make: kencur skinned and chew thoroughly;How to use: the water is swallowed, the waste is disposed. Performed routinely every morning.7. Diarrheaa. Ingredients: 2 rhizome kencur of your thumb and salt to taste.Method: kencur grated, then add 1 cup of warm water, squeezed and filtered.How to use: diolsekan in the abdomen as a powder.b. Ingredients: 2 rhizome kencur of your thumb and salt to taste.Method: kencur grated, then add salt to taste.How to use: as a powder applied to the abdomen.8. Eliminating Blood DirtyIngredients: 4 kencur rhizome of thumb, trengguli 2 bay leaves, 2 cloves dried beans,pulawaras fennel taste.How to make: all ingredients are boiled together with 1 liter of water until boiling and thenfiltered out.How to use: drinked 2 times a day regularly.9. Streamlining the menstrualIngredients: 2 rhizome kencur of thumb, a trengguli leaves, 1 clove old fruit seeds,pulawaras fennel taste.Method: kencur chopped, then mixed with other ingredients and boil togetherwith 3 cups water to boil down to 2 cups, then filtered.How to use: 2 cups taken once daily.10. Aching eyesIngredients: 1 piece of rhizomeMethod: kencur split into 2 parts.How to use: the surface is still wet is used to rub the eyelid.11. SprainIngredients: 1 rhizome kencur and rice soaked in water.Method: The second material is crushed and water.How to use: applied / digosokan on the part of the sprain as a powder.12. Tired eliminate.Ingredients: 1 large rhizome kencur, 2 tablespoons rice fried without oil (couple) and a seedred chili.How to make: all ingredients are boiled together with 2 cups water to boilto 1 cup, and then filtered.How to use: drink as well and repeated until healed. For men cancoupled with 1 piece of ginger and pepper powder to taste.Composition:CHEMISTRY CONTENT: Rhizome Powder contains starch (4.14%), minerals (13.73%), and essential oil (0.02%) of sineol, acid methyl penta kanil and independence, cinnamic acid, ethyl asters, sinamic acid, borneol, kamphene, paraeumarin, anisic acid, alkaloids, and gums.