Melia azedarach

Many people mistakenly between Mindi with neem, because physically the two plants are almost the same. Mindi small (Melia azedarach) is often planted on the side of the road as a shade tree. Trees that grow quickly and come from China can be found from the lowlands to the mountains with an altitude of 1,100 m asl.

Mindi morphological features:

• Trunk

This many-branched stem bark has a dark brown, with up to 4 m high, grooved to form lines and scaly. stem cylindrical, upright, not buttress; bark (papagan) gray brown, the trees are still Young has a smooth skin and have lenticels; wood pale white sapwood; reddish brown wooden porch.

• Leaf

Double compound leaves, odd pinnate, alternate grows 20-80 cm in length. Leaflets oval to oblong shape, jagged edge, pointed tip, base rounded or obtuse, upper surface dark green leaves, green bottom young, 3-7 cm long, 1.5 to 3 cm wide. Amounted to 5 petals, about 1 cm in length, pale purple color, and smell nice. The leaves are dried in the book could resist insects or ticks.

• Flowers

Compound interest in long panicles 10-20 cm, leaves out of the armpit.

• Fruit

The fruit of stone fruit, round, diameter about 1.5 cm. When ripe its color yellowish brown, and seedy one. Propagation by seed.

• Seed

Seeds are highly toxic and is commonly used to poison fish or insects.

NATURE and efficacy

Root bark and bark of small Mindi (ku lian pi) taste bitter, cold in nature, slightly poisonous (toxic). Ku lian pi into the liver meridian, stomach, and spleen. Efficacious clean hot and humid, peluruh urine (diuretic), laxative (laxative), stimulant vomiting, and intestinal worms peluruh (antelmintik). Mindi small fruit (chuan lian zi) taste bitter, its cool, slightly toxic. Chuan lian zi into the heart meridian, small intestine, and bladder, and efficacious laxative intestinal worms (anthelmintic), activate the vital energy to relieve pain, and as foreign drugs efficacious antifungal. Nutritious leaves peluruh urine (diuretic) and peluruh worms. Nutritious crops throughout the insect killer.

RESULTS AND EFFECTS pharmacological

Toosendanin is an active component on a small Mindi efficacious antelmintik and work longer than santonin. In vitro experiments, Cortex Meliae infusion with concentrations 25-50% causing paralysis worm pinworm derived from mice. Giving toosendanin 8 mg / kg in mice intravenously (IV) or intramuscular (IM) or injections of 0.4 mg / kg directly to the respiratory center in the medulla, causing respiratory failure. This indicates toosendanin can cause respiratory depression.

PART USED

Parts of plants used as medicine are the bark, root bark, fruit, and leaves. Use materials that have been dried or fresh. Bark after washed, and then dry in the sun until dry. Perform Cutting prior to storage.

Mindi drug efficacy:

1. SKIN DISEASE

Prepare bark or root bark is dried as much as 15-30 g or 30-60 g if using fresh. Boil or make the powder / pill. If using the fruit, boiled fruit small Mindi as much as 50-10 g, and then drink the water. For external use only, boiled bark or root bark, use water to wash or rinse burrow ringworm pubic itching and discharge infections caused by trichomonas (trikomonal vaginitis).

Bark or root bark can also be baked / roasted, then ground up refined into a powder. To use, add vinegar or oil the powder to taste, then rub on skin disorders, such as rubella (German measles), erysipelas (an acute infection of the skin caused by streptococcus), Kapala in the skin due to ringworm fungus (tinea capitis), itching from scabies, eczema, and ulceration. Mindi leaves little can also be boiled, use water to ringworm and wash the leaves to compress sores, boils, eczema, and inflammation of the skin due to worm infestation.

2. Headache

Fresh leaves when crushed and placed on the temples can relieve headaches. Flowers as an external medicine for headaches.