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INDONESIAN DAUN BANGUN BANGUN Coleus aromaticus Latin name= Coleus Amboinicus Lour Sinonym= Plectranthus amboinicus ( L.) Spreng.) Indonesian DAUN BANGUN-BANGUN Indonesian Local= Daun Jinten, Bangu n-bangun, daun hati-hati, Melayu= Sukan , Sunda= Acerang , Java= Daun Kucing, Daun Kambing , Madura= Majha Nereng , Bali= Iwak, Flores= Golong * SMS= + 62858-763-89979 * SMS= + 6281-32622-0589 * SMS= + 6281-901-389-117 * Email= BudimanBagus01@ yahoo.com ~ Klasifikasi Kingdom: Plantae ( Tumbuhan) Subkingdom: Tracheobionta ( Tumbuhan berpembuluh) Super Divisi: Spermatophyta ( Menghasilkan biji) Divisi: Magnoliophyta ( Tumbuhan berbunga) Kelas: Magnoliopsida ( berkeping dua / dikotil) Sub Kelas: Asteridae Ordo: Lamiales Famili: Lamiaceae Genus: Coleus Spesies: Coleus amboinicus Lour Plectranthus amboinicus, once identified as Coleus amboinicus, is a tender fleshy perennial plant in the family Lamiaceae with an oregano-like flavor and odor, native to Southern and Eastern Africa, from South Africa ( KwaZulu-Natal) and Swaziland to Angola and Mozambique and north to Kenya and Tanzania. * * Coleus amboinicus Lour ....USES Uses ~ The leaves are strongly flavoured and make an excellent addition to stuffings for meat and poultry. Finely chopped, they can also be used to flavour meat dishes, especially beef, lamb and game. Such use as a flavouring and its geographic spread is indicated by some of the common names, and documented for Cambodia and South Africa. ~ It is also used as a vegetable, for example in South East Asia. ~ The herb is used as a substitute for oregano in the food trade and food labelled " oregano-flavoured " may well contain this herb. ~ The leaves have also had many traditional medicinal uses, especially for the treatment of coughs, sore throats and nasal congestion, but also for a range of other problems such as infections, rheumatism and flatulence. ~ The plant is cultivated in home-gardens throughout India for use in traditional medicine, being used to treat malarial fever, hepatopathy, renal and vesical calculi, cough, chronic asthma, hiccough, bronchitis, helminthiasis, colic, convulsions, and epilepsy, Shenoy and others refer to further Indian traditional medicinal uses such as for skin ulcerations, scorpion bite, skin allergy, wounds, diarrhoea, with emphasis on the leaves being used as a hepatoprotective, to promote liver health. ~ In Indonesia Plectranthus amboinicus is a traditional food used in soup to stimulate lactation for the month or so following childbirth. ~ In Cambodia 2 uses are recorded= juice from the leaves is sweetened and then given to children as protection from colds; and leaves are applied to the lips. ~ In Bahia, Brasil, people use the plant to treat skin lesions caused by Leishmania braziliensis. Just to the north, in Paraiba of the same country, the plant was extremely commonly known for use in home medication. As noted above, medicinal use also occurs in Southern India, it also documented in other parts of South East Asia and South Africa. Other uses include as an ornamental, and for its essential oils. In Indonesians ~ Bataknese people in Indonesia use the plant as a breast milk stimulant ( a lactagogue) for hundreds of years ~ The plant is used more commonly as medicinal herb due to its strong antioxidant property and therapeutic value. Coleus aromaticus is also useful in natural antibiotic formulation as an active gradient ~ Juice obtained from leaves of Coleus aromaticus is effective to cure constipation and other digestive problems , including indigestion, stomach ache, and congestive heart failure. It can help in treatment of cancer as it has anti tumor and cytotoxic activities ~ Coleus aromaticus leaf extract is also given in bronchitis, asthma, cold, chronic cough and epilepsy ~ In India, leaves are used traditionally for diarrhea . The plant is used in South India primarily as a medicinal plant where it is called as " Karpuravalli " . ~ In the Philippines, Coleus aromaticus is commonly considered as a medicinal plant, useful for relieving headache, colic, flatulence, rheumatism, otalgia ( ear aches) ~ In eastern Cuba it is used as herbal mixture in traditional medicine for treatment of catarrhal infections ~ The leaves of Coleus aromaticus have bronchodilator and antimycobacterium tuberculosis activity . Application of bruised leaves in burns is also reported. ~ The leaf extract shows regulatory influence on calcium oxalate stone formation in experimental rats. ~ In folk medicine, Coleus aromaticus leaves are used to expel kidney stone and hence the herb is known as Paashanbhedi ~ In Rodriques, Coleus aromaticus is used for curing of cholera and in treatment of fever or infections ~ Leaves of Coleus aromaticus are helpful for checking of alleviate inflammations ~ This plant is used for reproductive issue such as child birth and infertility in both genders: male and female . ~ Plant part, other than leaves are also known to be of therapeutic value. ~ Coleus aromaticus roots are used for menorrhagia , for the treatment of diphtheria and tetanus , and for curing infant fever