Blustru (Luffa Aegyptica Mill)

Blustru (Luffa Aegyptica Mill)

Blustru or commonly called Cassava Sweet (In Sunda called Field Oyom or in Palembang called Hurung Java) is a medicinal plant that has been given for generations. But now rarely used even most people do not know how to form the Blustru Plant.

Luffa aegyptiaca (Luffa aegyptiaca, Level pumpkin-labuan OR Cucurbitaceae), Is Small fruit vegetables (Main NO). Planting usually on page OR A Part Of The Field Crops FOR NOT used other. Luffa aegyptiaca normally Harvest when the fruit Mature and is used as a dry sponge bath time. ALSO CAN young fruit is eaten as gambas (Luffa acutangula), Relatives. Some parties meyebutnya as gambas.

In Indonesia, Luffa aegyptiaca has names like Blustru (Malay), Hurung Java, ketolang, and timput (Palembang). In Java, known as such Lopang, Oyong (Sunda), bestru, blestru, Dan Blustru. In Maluku, known by names such as: dodahala (Halmahera), petola China And petola Panjang.

Blustru has a sweet taste and cool, except at its root that has a bitter taste, is cold, and toxic. Some chemicals contained in blustru, including saponins, lufein, citrulline, or cucurbitaen, fat, protein, xylan, vitamin B and C, fat minyal squalene, a-spinasterol, arginine, lysine, alanine, galactose, and manitosa. Blustru farmakalogis effects, among them cope with difficult defecation, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cough. 

Healed Dapa disease and Method Uses :

Accompanied Cough Shortness
Wash 10-15 g blustru interest and then boiled in 3 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup . Strain , add 1 tablespoon honey , stir well and drink three times a day .

Boils not Kunjung Tableware
Wash off old roots blustru taste. Boil 3 cups of water until the remaining 1 cup . Use boiled water to compress ulcers. Do it regularly until boils mature and rupture by itself .

Irregular menstruation
Rinse 4 blustru finger pulp , grated , then knead . Add salt to taste and ½ cup of boiled water and then wring it out . Filter results grated to drink as well. Do it morning, noon , afternoon of the same dose .

lumbago

Rinse the roots of taste , fueled by the precarious pedestal until charred , then mash until smooth. Take 10 g of powder , mixed with ½ shot glass of wine , and drink as well 1 a day .