Styrax benzoin

Scientific Names

Styrax benzoin

Region name

Medan: Frankincense

Java: Frankincense

Napier: Kamanyang

botany

Synonym: Laurus benzoin Houtt, Benzoin officinalis Hayne, benzoicus Lithocarpus Bl, Styrax tonkinensis (Pierre) ex Hartwich

classification

Division: Spermatophyta

Sub Division: Angiospermae

Class: Dicotyledoneae

Nation: Ebenales

Tribe: Styracaceae

Marga: Styrax

Type: Styrax benzoin Dryand.

The characteristics

Habitus: high tree ± 18 m.

Trunk: Upright, rounded, woody, smooth, branching simpodial, light brown.

Leaves: Single, oval, alternate, scattered, 4-8 cm long, 2-5 cm wide, flat edge, pointed tip, base tapering, pertulangan pinnate, green, round stems, 0.5 to 1.5 cm long, green pale.

Interest: Compound, oval, in the armpit and the rod tip leaves, stems round, green, petals form a bowl, furry, green, white stamens, pistil cylindrical, white, crown bertaju five, bell-shaped, white.

Fruit: Oval, young green after dark chocolate.

Seeds: Round, ± 1.2 cm in diameter, brown.

Roots: riding, light brown.

Chemical Ingredients

Leaves, bark and roots of incense contains saponins, flavonoids and polyphenols.

property

Skin incense sticks efficacious as a sedative.

Used for sedation + 3 grams of skin incense sticks, washed and finely ground, brewed with 1 cup hot boiled water, after the cold filtered. Filtered drinking water as well.