Tamarind ( Asam Jawa )

Tamarind  ( Asam Jawa )
(Tamarindus indica, Linn.)
Synonyms:
Familia:
Leguminosae

Description:
Tamarind (Tamarindus indica) is a cultivar of tropical and including plants fruiting pods. The trunk hard enough to grow into a big and shady leaves. The trunk hard enough to grow into a big and shady leaves. Long-stemmed leaves tamarind, about 17 cm and finned even. The flowers are yellow and fruit reddish brown pods with a distinctive sour taste. In addition there is the fruit pod of skin that encloses the fruit flesh, there are also seeds amounted to 2-5 in the form of flat to slightly blackish brown color.

Local Name:
Tamarind (UK), Tamarinier (France),; Asam Jawa (Indonesia), Celangi, Asem (Sunda); Asem (Java);
Composition:
CHEMISTRY CONTENT: Fruit tamarind pods contain chemical compounds such as Appel acid, citric acid, sour grapes, tartaric acid, succinic acid, pectin and sugar invert. Tamarind fruit that ripen on the tree of them contain the caloric value of 239 cal per 100 grams, 2.8 grams protein per 100 grams, 0.6 grams of fat per 100 grams, 62.5 grams of carbohydrate per 100 grams, calcium 74 milligrams per 100 grams, 113 milligrams of phosphorus per 100 grams, 0.6 milligrams of iron per 100 grams, vitamin A 30 SI per 100 grams, vitamin B1 0.34 milligrams per 100 grams, 2 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 grams. The skin contains the seed and the seed containing albuminoid phlobatannnin and starch.

Curable Disease:
Asthma, cough, fever, heat pain, rheumatic, abdominal pain, morbili; Allergy / biduren, Sprue, new wounds, sores ulcers, eczema, boils, swelling stung by centipedes / bee, snake bites, Hair loss;

Utilization:
1. Asthma
    Ingredients: 2 pieces of tamarind bark, fennel
    How to make: two ingredients are boiled with 1 liter of water
    to boiling, then filtered.
    How to use: drink 2 times a day

2. Hacking cough
    Ingredients: 3 pod tamarind fruit, ½ handful sage leaves
    How to make: two ingredients are boiled in 4 cups water
    to boil down to 1 cup and filtered
    How to use: drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon

3. Fever
    Ingredients: 1 handful of tamarind leaves, fennel
    How to make: two ingredients are boiled with ½ liter of water
    to boiling, then filtered
    How to use: drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon

4. Fever
    Ingredients: 2 tamarind fruit pods that have been cooked, salt
    to taste
    How to make: both ingredients with 1 cup hot water
    then filtered
    How to use: plain drunk
    Note: for pregnant women should not drink this recipe

5. Rheumatic
    Ingredients: 1 handful of tamarind leaves, 2-3 tamarind seeds

    How to make: both ingredients finely ground
    How to use: used to compress the affected part

6. Stomach ache
    a. Ingredients: 3 pods of tamarind fruit is ripe, whiting
       and eucalyptus oil to taste
       How to make: all ingredients are thoroughly mixed
       How to use: used as a liniment, especially
       on the abdomen

    b. Ingredients: 3 pod tamarind fruit, 1 piece of palm sugar
       How to make: both ingredients with 1 cup hor water
       then filtered
       How to use: plain drunk

     c. Ingredients: 2 pieces tamarind pods, 1 turmeric rhizome of the mother
        finger, 1 slice of coconut sugar
        Method: Turmeric shredded, then mixed with the material
        other ingredients and brewed with 1 cup hot water, then
        filtered
        How to use: plain drunk

7. Morbili
    Ingredients: 1-2 pieces of tamarind fruit that has been cooked, 2 rhizome
    Turmeric for thumb
    Method: grated turmeric, then the two materials
    thoroughly mixed
    How to use: used as a powder / ointment for
    patients morbili

8. Allergy / Biduren (Java)
    Ingredients: 2-3 golong tamarind fruit which has an old, salt
    to taste, ¼ tsp whiting.
    How to make: all the ingredients are boiled in 3 cups water
    to boil down to 2 cups and filtered
    How to use: drink 2 times a day, morning and afternoon

9. Sprue
    Ingredients: 2 pieces tamarind pods, 2 ginger rhizome of thumb
    1 slice of coconut sugar
    How to make: all the ingredients are boiled until boiling
    down to 1 cup, and then filtered
    How to use: plain drunk

10. New Injury
     Ingredients: tamarind leaves to taste
     Method: tamarind leaf chewed until creamed
     How to use: placed on the wound

11. Ulcer wound
     Material: Some tamarind seeds
     Method: finely ground tamarind seed
     How to use: attached to the wound, then bandage

12. Eczema and Boils
     Ingredients: 1 handful of tamarind leaves are still young, 2 turmeric rhizome of thumb
     How to make: both ingredients until finely ground
     How to use: affixed on the sick

13. Swollen from a bee sting or a centipede
     Ingredients: 3-5 seeds tamarind and eucalyptus oil to taste
     Method: finely ground tamarind seed
     How to use: the swelling cleaned
     first with a cloth moistened with eucalyptus oil,
     then sprinkled / plastered with tamarind seed powder
     them.

14. Preventing hair loss
     Material: Some tamarind seed
     How to use: before shampooing with a shampoo, head
     first applied