Cat Tails (Acalypha hispida Burm)

Description:
Cats are native plants of the West Indies. Generally, planted as an ornamental plant in the yard or in the parks. Shrubs, growing up, height 1-3 m. Stems rounded, branching simpodial, surface rough, greenish brown. Leaves single, long stemmed, where the turns. Leaf blade shape oval or oblong, pointed tip, base obtuse, serrated edge, pertulangan pinnate, 12-20 cm long, 6-16 cm wide, light green. Unisexual flowers in a tree. Female flowers gathered in the form of grain composition of the leaves out of the armpit, the long round dangling down, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, 20-50 cm long, red. The fruit is round, small, hairy, green. The seed is round, small, dirty white. Cats can be propagated by seeds.

Curable Disease:
Flowers sweet cats, chocolate, its cool. This flower efficacious to stop the bleeding (hemostatis) and peluruh urine (diuretic). Roots and leaves hemostatis efficacious.
Utilization:
PART USED
The part used is the flowers and leaves.
INDICATION
Flowers are used for the treatment of:
dysentery, gastroenteritis,
bleeding, such as dysentery, vomiting blood, nosebleeds,
worms,
burns,
ulcers (ulcers) on legs.
Leaves used for treatment:
white patches on the skin due to loss of pigment (vitiligo),
dysentery, coughing up blood (haemoptysis), wound bleeding, and
sprue.
HOW TO USE
To drug intake, 10-30 g of boiled flowers, and water rebusannya drunk.
For external use, milled leaves or flowers to taste until smooth, then attach to the sick.
EXAMPLE OF USE IN THE COMMUNITY
Vitiligo
Wash a handful of fresh leaves and kencur size 1 / 2 thumbs up clean, then milled until smooth. Balurkan on the stained section of white body, and dressing. Perform this treatment every day.
Bleeding wounds
To close the wound, washing a handful of fresh leaves thoroughly, then mash until smooth. Stick to the wound, then wrapped with gauze.
Wash fresh flowers and betel sufficiently clean, then chew. During chewed, can add a little ginger, kencur, and that still leaves muda.Telan Pulai chewing water and waste pulp. Do this several times a day.
30 g minced fresh flowers and 30 g palm sugar until smooth. Furthermore, eating the mixture. Do it 3 times a day until healed.

Composition:
Leaves contain acalyphin, flavonoida, saponins, and tannins. Flowers contain saponins and tannins.