Efficacy and Benefits of Herbal Cempaka Putih

Efficacy and Benefits of Herbal Cempaka Putih - Cempaka Putih (Michelia alba DC) is one herb that is widely used in traditional medicine. In China, this plant is well known by the name of Bai Lan Hua, these plants included into familia Magnoliaceae.

Chemical properties and pharmacological effects: it tastes bitter, spicy, slightly warm efficacious as urine (diuretic), as a cough remedy, reduce fever (antipyretics).
Chemical content, the bark contains 0.15% alkaloids, the leaves and flowers contain essential oils. Portions were used; flowers, leaves, and bark.
Usability - flowers; dizziness (vertigo), sinusitis; cough (tussis), cough with a lot of slam / phlegm, whooping cough (pertussis), inflammation of the airways (bronchitis); chest feels full, flatulence (meteorismus), nausea, body odor and underarm, whitish. Leaves: for heat stroke, urinary saluranm disorders.
Dose of use:

External use: flowers boiled water used for bathing.
Usage in: 15-30 grams of dried leaves or flowers, boiled and water to drink.

External use:

Body odor and underarm - Cempaka putih flowers and betel leaves take each taste boiled with water as needed and water is used for bathing.

Internal Use:

Headache: 5-7 cempaka white flowers boiled with 500 cc of water to the remaining 200 cc, then the water is drunk while warm.
Sinusitis: 30 grams of flowers cempaka putih, 30 grams of mint / mint (Mentha sp), 15 grams of ginger (Zingiber officinale rose), and 2 stalks of garlic (allium sativum Linn) boiled with 800 cc of water until the remaining half (400 cc ), and water to drink twice a day, every time 200 cc.
Whooping cough (pertussis) in children: 5-7 cempaka putih flowers, 10 grams of ginger (Zingiber officinale rose) and 10 grams of orange peel mandarin / tangerine (Citrus nobilis Lour) dried, boiled with water until the remaining 600 cc to 300 cc, add 30 cc of honey, stir and drink for two meals a day, every time 150 cc.