Amazing! This is the benefits of cat's whiskers for health
KONTAN.CO.ID – JAKARTA. Has beautiful flowers, cat whiskers have many benefits for health. Are you curious? Here are the benefits of cat whiskers for health.
Do you know about the cat’s whiskers plant?
Most people are probably more familiar with it as a garden decoration plant. But in fact, this plant is proven to also save health benefits or benefits.
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Cat’s whiskers are recognized as herbaceous, erect, and can be up to two meters tall.
This plant is called a cat’s whiskers because the size of the thread is longer than the flower crown so that it resembles a cat’s whiskers. This plant, which has the Latin name Orthosipon stamineus (BI.) Miq, is one of the most common plants in areas with moderate temperatures, including in Indonesia.
In Indonesia, the cat’s whiskers plant is known to have three varieties, namely:
- Blue flowered cat whiskers
- White flowered cat whiskers
- White-flowered cat whiskers but reddish brown leaf bones and stalks
Even though the identity of the cat’s whiskers lies in the flower part, it is the leaf part that has been used as a medicinal ingredient.
To get the benefits of cat whiskers leaves is quite easy. You just cut the leaves of the cat’s whiskers.
After that, you process the dry cat whiskers into like dry tea. Another option, you can process cat whiskers leaves into an extract and put it in capsules.
Benefits of cat whiskers
Launching the Top 100 Indonesian Medicinal Plants Book published by the Research and Development Center for Medicinal and Traditional Medicines (B2P2TOOT) of the Ministry of Health’s Balitbangkes in 2011, the herb for the cat’s whiskers contains chemical compounds or substances that are beneficial to the body. Here are some of them:
- Diterpenes (orthosifoi, staminol)
- Flavonoids (sinensetin, eupatorin, metilluteolin)
- Rosmarinic acid
- Caffeine acid
- Oleaniic acid
- Ursolic acid
- Betulinic acid
These substances are what make cat whiskers leaves that can be used to relieve several diseases, namely.
- As a diuretic, which is to reduce the buildup of body fluids through urine.
- Kidney stone bullets
- Gout
- Anti-inflammatory or has activity to suppress or reduce inflammation
- Lowers cholesterol
- Lowering high blood pressure
In vitro or plant tissue culture, infusion of 10 percent of cat whiskers leaves can dissolve calcium stones. Meanwhile, the diuretic effect can be greater if the cat’s whiskers are combined with meniran.
In the pharmaceutical world, meniran extract has even been clinically tested as an immunomodulator or immune enhancer.
Meanwhile, the effectiveness of the antihypertensive benefits will be greater if the cat’s whiskers are combined with celery and bay leaves. (Irawan Sapto Adhi)
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This article was published on Kompas.com with the title “6 Benefits of Cat Whiskers, Treat Gout to Hypertension”,