MAHOGANY TO TREAT HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

Mahogany which called Latin Swietinia Mahagoni Jacg, it comes from the West Indies and Africa. In Indonesia at first grows wild in the forests, in gardens or anywhere. But since last 20 years has been cultivated, since the quality of hard wood and is especially good for furniture and handicrafts, and even lately a lot of use of mahogany to create walls and floors. The old wood is brownish red. Quality mahogany is slightly below the teak, the mahogany was dubbed the belle of the second after teak.

Mahogany tree height can reach 30 meters, even more. Spreading by seed. After the age between 7-8 years of mahogany have started flowering. The fruit is egg-shaped, green when young and become brown after a major. In the fruit contains five seeds grooved mahogany that looks flat with edges rather thick blackish brown. If the fruit is very old, it will break its own fruit skin and seeds are flat tartiup was flying to and fro wind falling to the ground and then grow into new mahogany trees.

In the 70s many people look for mahogany seeds, which supposedly can be used as medicine. Some say for rheumatic drugs, malaria and some are said to strong drugs. The people eat seeds mahogany only by swallowing seeds after removing the flat. It is said that many matches. In fact after taking rematiknya mahogany grain is lost. Some even say their strength increases. But they complain mahogany seeds are very bitter taste.

After the use of traditional medicine flare again with the slogan back to nature in the 90's, the search for improved fruit sibuin mahogany. How to eat them were already advanced. Indirect swallowing the seeds, but the first seeds of mahogany dried. Once dry ground into powder.

According to Member Development and Application Center of Traditional Medicine (SP3T) DKI Jakarta, Dr. Setiawan Dalimartha. Mahogany chemical constituents are of two kinds, each saponin and flavonoida excellent for treating high blood pressure, diabetes, rheumatism, fever, colds and increase appetite.

To treat high blood pressure, take half a teaspoon of powdered seeds of mahogany and glass of hot water. Add one tablespoon of honey, stirred, after a lukewarm drink. Perform two to tida times a day. High blood pressure will go down. If it normally should be discontinued. And if the blood pressure goes up, drink again.

For diabetes should be taken 30 minutes before breakfast, lunch and dinner. As for the technique is similar to common colds to diabetes, so it is with treating rheumatism.