Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd

Scientific Names

Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd

Region Name

Sumatran: red tree, croton Bengal

New York: Denok

Sundanese: Kastuba, ki geulis

Java: Godong poison, Wit poison, poisoning

Bali: Poison, kedapa

English: poinsettia

china: hong Yi ping

Botany

Synonym: poinsettia pulcherrima R. Grah

Classification

Division: Spermatophyta

Sub Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Dicotyledonae

Nation: Malpighiales

Tribe: Euphorbiaceae

Marga: Euphorbia

Type of Euphorbia pulcherrima Willd. Klotzsch et

The characteristics

Habitus: Shrubs, erect, 1.5 to 4 m. high +

Stem: woody, branched, resinous, white as milk.

Leaves: Single, lying scattered, ovoid (ovatus) to oval, with 2-4 indentations, 7-15 cm long, 0.5 to 6 cm lebar2, tapered tip and base, pertulangan pinnate, the lower part smooth-haired, long stalks + 5-20 cm, red when young after the old green.

Interest: Compound, flat or branched panicle shape menggarpu in a typical arrangement called cyathium, at the end of the branches, oblong shape, red, height + 1 cm, green with red Taju and a large glands on the sides yellow orange, bell-shaped petals, yellow crown reddish, orange-red stalk juice, red sari Kapala, pistil with three going to bear fruit in red.

Fruit: Box, a length of 1.5 cm was young green after dark chocolate.

Seeds: Round, brown color.

Chemical Ingredients

Kastuba leaves contain alkaloids, saponins, fatty, amylodextrin. Rods contain saponin, sulfur, fats, amylodextrin, formic acid, and starch.

Property

All parts of plants, leaves, flowers, sap, roots kastuba efficacious as a cure dysentery, lung, skin infections, broken bones, swelling due to hit, wound out, launch period and launch a breast,

For drugs taken using 10-15 g of material on the cob, for the use of external wounds such as skin inflammation, erysipelas, wound bleeding, swelling (bruise), the leaves taste kastuba then milled into powder, apply on the sick and dressing, ganti2- 3 times a day. To accelerate the Asi, washing kastuba fresh flowers as much as 10 g, and then boiled with 2 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup, strain and drink 2 times a day, each half a glass. Kastuba plants are toxic drugs, the sap is very irritating, if the skin often causes small blisters (vesicles). If used as a medicine to drink, causing vomiting and diarrhea, do not exceed recommended dosage.