(Averhoa carambola )
Synonyms:
Familia: Oxalidaceae
Description:Small tree, reaching 10 m high with a trunk that is not so big and has a diameter of only about 30 cm. Planted as a fruit tree, sometimes growing wild and are found from the lowlands to 500 m dpi. Trees that originated from tropical America where it wants to grow is not shaded and moist enough. Carambola wuiuh rod has bumpy rough, branching slightly, leaning over her. Haired young branches smooth like velvet, the color brown. Leaves odd-pinnate compound leaf form with 21-45 pairs of leaflets. Child leaves short stemmed, rounded shape teiur until ellipse, sharp tip, base rounded, flat edge, 2-10 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, color is green, lower surface light green. Inflorescence a panicle, berkelornpok, out of the trunk or large branches, small bungs star-shaped reddish purple color. The fruit is fruit Buni, oval faceted round shape, length 4 to 6.5 Ern, yellowish green color, when ripe juicy, sour taste. Seeds ovoid shape, flattened. Taste sour fruit, used as a refresher syrup, flavoring dishes, clean the stain on the cloth, polish the items made of brass, cleaning dirty hands or as an ingredient of traditional medicine. Propagation by seeds and grafts.
Local Name:Belimbing manis (Indonesia), Belimbing manih (Minangkabau); Belimbing legi (Jawa), Belimbing amis (Sunda), ; Bhalimbing manes (Madura), Balirang (Bugis);
Curable Disease:Diabetes mellitus, cholesterol, hypertension;
Utilization:
PART USED: Leaves, flowers, fruit.
USE:Interest:- Cough.- Sprue (stomatitis)
Leaves:- Stomach pain. Mumps (parotitis).- Rheumatism.
Fruit:- Whooping cough.- Bleeding gums, canker sores.- Sick of cavities.- Acne. Panu.- High blood pressure.- Paralysis.- Improve digestive function.- Inflammation of the rectum.
USAGE:To drink: See recipe.Pamakaian out: Leaf sufficiently after washed out milled smooth to like porridge, poultice used sebagal (local usage) in the mumps, Rheumatism, acne, tinea versicolor.
HOW TO USE:
1. Pagel pains:1 handful of leaves of young starfruit wuiuh, 10 clove seeds,15 seed pepper, finely milled and then add vinegar to taste.Smear the sore place.
2. Mumps:10 leatherback wuiuh young twigs and leaves following 4 items onionred after washed and finely ground. Apply to the placethe sick.
3. Cough in children.Handful of flowers wuiuh starfruit, a few grains of anise, sugarto taste and 1 cup water, steamed for several hours. Aftercold filtered with a piece of cloth, divided for 2 times drinks,morning and evening with an empty stomach.
4. Cough:25 flowers starfruit, a finger rhizome Intersection bells, one fingercinnamon bark, 1 finger rhizome kencur, red onion 2 eggs, 1 / 4handheld gotu kola, 1 / 4 handful sage leaves, 1 / 4 handheld leafrue, 1 / 4 handheld spoon leaves, washed and cut into piecesnecessary, boiled with 5 cups water until remaining 2 1 / 4the glass. After chilling filtered, taken with honey as needed.3 times a day 3 / 4 cup.
5. Whooping Cough:a. 10 star fruit. wuluh washed and finely-smooth,kneaded with 2 tablespoons of salt water, then filtered. Drinking,do 2 times a day.b. Star fruit wuiuh made sweets, eat 3 x daily 6-8 pieces.
6. Rheumatism:a. 100 g young leaves starfruit, 10 clove seeds and 15 seedswashed and finely ground pepper, add vinegar to tasteuntil it becomes dough like mush. Spread batter slurry wasthe sick place.
b. 5 pieces of starfruit, 8 sheets leaf magnolia (Michelia champacaL.), 15 seeds of cloves, 15 grains of black pepper, washed and crushedsmooth, with 2 tablespoons squeezed lime juice and1 tablespoon of eucalyptus oil. Used to scruband massaging sore body parts. Do it 2-3 times a day.
7. Sprue:a. Segenggarn starfruit flowers, palm sugar to taste and1 cup boiling water until thick. After chilling filtered,used to clean and lubricate the mouth sores.
b. 2 / 3 hand-held interest wuiuh starfruit, washed and boiled with3 clean water glass until remaining 2 1 / 4 cup. After the coldfiltered and drunk, a day 3 times 3 / 4 cup.
c. 3 wuitjh star fruit, red onion 3 eggs, 1 nutmegYoung, 10 leaves sprue, 3 / 4 teaspoon fennel, 3 / 4 fingerpulosari, washed and finely ground, kneaded with 3 tablespoonseating coconut oil, squeezed and then filtered. Used forgreasing the wounds caused by canker sores, 6-7 times a day.
8. Acne:a. Fruits starfruit sufficiently washed and finely ground,squeezed with salt water as necessary, to rub the facewith acne. Do 3 times a day,
b. 6 pieces starfruit and 1 / 2 teaspoon of powdered sulfur,finely ground and then squeezed with 2 tablespoons lime juice.This herb is used to scrub and lubricate the face of theacne. Do it 2-3 times a day.
9. Panu:10 pieces of starfruit cleaned then is milled smooth, add the limeseeds of the betel acid, kneaded until smooth. This herb is usedfor scrubbing skin afflicted by phlegm. Apply 2 times a day.
10. High blood.a. 3 bua
Composition:CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS pharmacological: Sour taste, cool. Eliminating pain (analgesic), multiply the expenditure of bile, anti-inflammatory, laxative urine, astringent. CHEMICAL CONTENT: Trunk: Saponins, tannins, glucoside, calcium oxalate, suifur, formic acid, peroxidase. Leaves: Tannins, suifur, formic acid, peroxide, calcium oxalate, potassium citrate.
Source : http://jamu-herbal.blogspot.com/2008/12/belimbing-manis.html
