Portulaca quadrifida L

Portulaca quadrifida L.

classification

Division: Spermatophyta

Sub Division: Angiospermae

Class: Dicotyledoneae

Nation: Caryophyllales

Tribe: Portufacaceae

Marga: Portulaca

Type: Portulaca L. quadrifida

The characteristics

Habitus: bush, creeper, annuals, ± 20 cm long.

Bars: round, jointed, bald, purple.

Leaves: Single, oval, opposite, 3-10 cm long, 1.5 to 3.5 cm wide, flat edge, the tip and rounded base, pinnate pertulangan, purplish green.

Flowers: Single, round, in the armpit leaves, petals berlekatan, green, yellow-green stamens, pistil branched, anthers round, green, crown funnel shape, bare, rounded tip, barbed, 3-6 cm long, yellow.

Fruit: Thin, yellow-green.

Beans: kidney shape, brown.

Roots: riding, pale yellow.

Chemical Ingredients

Pinworms herb containing saponins and tannins.

property

Leaf pinworms efficacious as upset stomach, for peluruh urine, hemorrhoids and hair loss.

Used for stomach medicine + 7 grams of fresh leaves pinworms, washed, boiled with 2 cups water for 25 minutes, after the cold filtered. The results of the filter is taken twice as much in the morning and afternoon.