Bitter Medicinal Plant Brotowali Save A Row Of Amazing Benefits

Many medicinal plants that have a series of health benefits, but not yet realized by the community. One of them is brotowali.
Brotowali or root aliali is a traditional Indonesian medicinal plant commonly planted in the yard or grows wild in the forest. As quoted from wikipedia, stew of a very bitter stem used as rheumatic drugs, reduce blood sugar, reduce heat, and reduce the risk of diabetes.

Not only that, this one herb can also increase appetite. According to dr. Prapti Utami Msi, a medicinal plant such as brotowali does have a good pharmacological effect. The woman who is attached dubbed the herbal doctor said that this one and good plants are given to someone who is accustomed to eating sweet foods.
Food and Drug Supervisory Agency (BPOM) RI through official account Instagram and Twitter @ bpom_ri on Wednesday (11/4/2018), also discuss about the plant Brotowali. Its angle is the substance contained in it along with the impact felt on the body.
Through infographics, BPOM RI reminded again that there is a part of brotowali that is good and should not be used. For example, the root part, containing berberine compounds that are dangerous because it has a number of side effects. Among them are nosebleeds, lethargy, shortness of breath, and irritation to the skin and eyes.
Plant roots belonging to the family of menispermaceae will also cause gastrointestinal disturbances such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, irritation of the kidneys, nephritis, to lethal poisoning.

Through infographics, BPOM RI suggested to the community to better utilize the stem part of brotowali. It contains alkaloids, flavonoids, and flavones glycosides, triterpenes, diterpenes, diterpene glikosida, firoditerpenoids clanodia cis type, lactones, sterols, lignans, and nucleosides.
Brotowali plants grow in hot places with stem height can reach 2.5 meters. The brotowali stem is the size of an adult human finger and sprinkled tightly.
Utilization of medicinal plants is indeed on the stem only. When the stem of this plant is boiled, stew water can be used to wash the wound. The content of berberine alkaloids is useful for killing bacteria in wounds.
Some diseases, still according to wikipedia, can be cured with brotowali. Call it rheumatic arthritis, rheumatic joints, fever, yellow fever, diabetes, malaria, diabetes, and external diseases such as bruises and scabies.
In Bali, brotowali stems are used as a medicine for abdominal pain, fever and jaundice, even as a liniment for back and lumbago. While in Java, boiled water can be used to treat fever, external medicine for wounds, and itching.