Bladygrass as a medicinal plant

Bladygrass kind of weed is a plant that is very easy to find in the area or paddy fields. Plants by scientific name is Imperata cylindrical indeed thrive in the area and its development can beat that was intentionally planted crop farmers.

Behind existence as weeds, it also has a role bladygrass good in protecting the soil from erosion. Rapid growth and root development are interlocked between trees form a strong fabric of the rhizome that can hold the soil around it.

The leaves bladygrass also widely used for roofs. Another part of that can be utilized bladygrass the fine fibers of the flower panicles can be used to fill bedding / pillows instead of kapok.

Classification bladygrass

• Division: Magnoliophiyta
• Class: Liliopsida
• Order: Poales
• Family: Poaceae
• Genus: Imperata Species: l.cylindrica

Plant Characteristics bladygrass

• Grass chronic, long buds scaly, slithering grow underground. Shoots shoots that grow out of the ground pointy sharp.
• Short trunk towering up above ground growth and flowering. Between 0.2 to 1.5 m high.
• Each leaf blade lanceolate form a line with the tip of a pointed leaf. The base narrows berbetuk gutters, leaves about 12-80 cm long, rough and jagged edges sharp, long-haired section base, the veins are generally broad and pale in the middle.
• Bouquet of flowers in a panicle, about 6-28 cm long, with a long-haired kid grains (white) as a tool to levitate fruit when ripe grain.

Bladygrass for health benefits.
From some of the research that has been done. bladygrass contain a number of chemical elements that are beneficial to health. These elements are abundant in the roots. Chemical elements some of which are: mannitol, glucose, citric acid, malic acid, arundoin, coixol, fernerol, silindrin, anemonin, simiarenol, achine, saponins, alkali, polyphenols, and taninin.

With the elements mentioned above, bladygrass antipyretic properties that are down the heat, which is shed urinary diuretic, hemostatic that can stop bleeding, can make a cool and relieve thirst.

Below are some of the benefits bladygrass as medicinal plants, among others, can treat:

1. Swelling due to acute kidney inflammation
2. Treat infections of the gastrointestinal tract
3. Bleeding due to blood heat, such as nosebleeds, coughing up blood, vomiting blood etc.
4. Bleeding in women
5. Difficult urination or urine continuously
6. Fever that accompanied thirsty
7. Weakened nerve
8. Inflammation of the lungs
9. Whitish in women
10. Indigestion
11. Coronary heart
12. Cough, flu, diarrhea
13. Asthma
14. Gonorrhoea (gonorrhea)
15. High blood pressure

Similarly, a brief review of the benefits bladygrass as a medicinal plant, smoga this article can add your knowledge about medicinal plants. And especially knowing the benefits that are stored in a less bladygrass known as crop pests.