Peperomia Pellucida Recipes, Pepper Elder Health Benefits
These plants often the most neglected people, some Peperomia pellucida recipes will help you take advantage of wild plants in the environment. Typically these plants grow around moist areas around the house, it could located alongside waterways. Not many people realize that pepper elder has its own advantages in the treatment of disease.
This plant also called shining bush plant, in latin is Peperomia pellucida. Small plants annuals and shallow rooted that grows wild on the banks of waterways and parks. The leaves are shape like betel leaves, is smaller and thicker, juicy and soft texture. Leaf size ranges from 15 to 45 cm. The stem succulent (aqueous), shallow roots, the brightly colored and fleshy.
Peperomia Pellucida Recipes And Benefits
Nowadays, most people prefer the herbal form of finished products rather than make their own concoctions. Advantage prescription herbal pepper elders will certainly help economic value, reduce the use of chemical drugs. Besides making us more creative empower plant around our homes. This plant should cultivated, some Pepper Elder health benefits are:
- Preventing the flu and cough
- Treatment of diarrhea.
- Lowering high blood pressure or hypertension.
- To treat rheumatism and gout
- To treat skin conditions such as acne, boils and blisters.
Europeans today have marketed Peperomia pellucida seeds as herbal medicine. While in Bolivia, Altenos India, they use this plant to stop bleeding. The roots used to treat fever and the other part used as a paste to treat wounds.
Northeast region of Brazil, peperomia pellucida recipe has used for lowering cholesterol. People in Guyana and Amazon have mengggunakan this plant as a cough suppressant drugs, emollients, and diuretics, also used to treat proteinuria. While in the Philippines, peperomia pellucida tea to reduce uric acid levels, treating kidney disease, and skin disorders such as acne and boils.
Peperomia Pellucida Recipes
This study ever written Maria de Fatima Arrigoni published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology. Peperomia pellucida extract useful as anti-inflammatory edema caused by carrageenin and arachidonic acid. Also serves as an analgesic in the abdomen.
The following ways can try at home, peperomia pellucida recipes of tea or a decoction made by Indonesian. There is also a way to make pepper elder into juice and as a vegetable. The following tea recipe:
Take a handful of leaves and stems of peperomia pellucida, and boil with 2 cups of water for 15 to 20 minutes. You can drink it a glass 3 times a day.
Peperomia pellucida herbal teas can treat gout, arthritis, acne, diarrhea, hypertension, colds and coughs, and sore. This herb is also believed to cure headaches and kidney disorders. Most peperomia pellucida recipes from various countries generally were tea or decoction, and pasta. Pasta usually used as face mask to treat acne and sensitive skin. These plants are not poisonous and harmless, so it is safe to consumed as vegetables.
Reference
- Analgesic activity of Peperomia pellucida aerial parts in mice. Fitoterapia, April 2004. doi:10.1016/S0367-326X(00)00249-5.
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