BENEFITS OF MAHONY

BENEFITS MAHONIMahogany tree is known as conditioning the street or as an ingredient to make any kind of furniture. Based on research in the laboratory, mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni), including a tree that can reduce air pollution of approximately 47% - 69%. Mahogany trees planted in the woods or along the city serves as the air filter and water catchment areas.
 Served leaves absorb pollutants in the vicinity. Instead, the leaves will release oxygen (O2) which makes the air around it becomes fresh. When it rains, the soil and roots of trees that would "bind" the water that falls, so that a reserve of water.Mahogany is a plant that originated from the West Indies and Africa, can thrive when grown in salty sand near the beach.Mahogany grouped into two categories, small leaf mahogany (Swietenia mahagoni Jacg.) And large-leaved mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King). Both are included in the family Meliaceae.Big leaf mahogany can grow well on land with an altitude varying between 0-1000 meters above sea level with rainfall 1600-4000 mm per year and climate types A through D. In general, mahogany happy to land in bersolum. This type also can survive in soil waterlogged at any time.New mahogany flowering after the age of 7 years. The fruit boxes, oval, notched five, the color brown. Seeds flat, black or brown color. Mahogany is a hardwood-producing trees and used for furniture and carving items. Wood is often made a ruler for not easily changed. Good for the adhesive resin.In Indonesia initially grows wild in the forests, in gardens or on the go. But since last 20 years has been cultivated for its quality hard wood and is very good, especially for furniture and handicrafts, and even lately a lot of use of mahogany to create walls and floors.Old red-brown wood. Quality mahogany is slightly below the teak, mahogany was the belle of the second named teak.Mahogany tree height can reach 30 meters, even more. Spread by seed. After the age between 7-8 years of mahogany have started flowering. The fruit is oval shaped, green when young and become brown after a major. In fruit that contains seeds notched five mahogany flat shape with edges rather thick blackish brown. If the fruit is very old, his skin would break itself and the flat seeds that fly to and fro in the wind fell to the ground and grow into new mahogany trees.DrugIn the '70s a lot of people looking for mahogany seed, which supposedly can be used as a drug. Some say for rheumatic drugs, malaria, and some are said to powerful drugs. People only eat seeds mahogany with swallowing seeds after disposing of the flat. It is said that many matches. In fact after eating seeds mahogany arthritis is gone.Some even say his strength increases. But they complain of mahogany seeds are very bitter taste. After widespread use of traditional medicine with the slogan return back to nature in the 90's, the search for pieces of mahogany on the rise. How to eat them were already advanced. Not immediately swallow the seeds, but the first seeds of dried mahogany. Once dry ground into powder.Mahogany chemical constituents are of two kinds, each of saponins and flavonoids that are excellent for treating high blood pressure, diabetes, rheumatism, fever, colds and increase appetite.The discovery of pieces of mahogany as vitamins and drugs the first time by Doctor Larry Brookes, a biochemist in the 1990s.Then the mahogany fruit that contains flavonoids and saponins are made in the form of extracts.The content of flavonoids in mahogany useful for blood circulation, especially to prevent blockage of blood vessels, reduces cholesterol levels, reduce the accumulation of fat in the walls of blood vessels, helping to reduce pain, bleeding and bruising, acting as an antioxidant and works to get rid of free radicals.While saponin is useful to prevent plague, reduce body fat, boost the immune system, prevent blood clotting and blood sugar levels, and strengthen heart function and slow the blood clotting process.Benefits of beansIn traditional Chinese pharmacology and treatment of others mentioned, this plant has a bitter nature, cold, antipyretic (fever), anti-fungal and lowers high blood pressure. Pharmacological effect is obtained from the use of the dried seeds, finely ground to a powder.Efficacy of mahogany seed which is to treat high blood pressure, diabetes / diabetes mellitus, poor appetite, rheumatism, fever, colds, and eczema. How to process the ore is usually crushed into a powder and brewed with hot water. While the dosage adjusted to the type of illness and age of the patient.Plants that have the ability as an astringent, can mempresipitasikan intestinal mucous membrane proteins and form a layer that protects the gut, thus inhibiting the intake of glucose and the rate of increase in blood glucose is too high.A study of mahogany seed in lowering blood glucose in animal experiments ever conducted Mihardja Laurentia, a researcher at the Center For Research and Development of Disease Control, NIHRD. At extract doses of 45 mg/160 g mahogany mm after 7 days showed significantly different results than the solvent and not different from 7.2 mg/200 g glikazide mm. Concluded, mahogany can lower blood glucose in experimental animals.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 three times a day. High blood pressure will drop. Normal when it should be stopped. And if the blood pressure goes up, have another drink.For people with diabetes should be taken 30 minutes before breakfast, lunch and dinner. As for the cold treatment means the same as for diabetes. Similarly, to treat arthritis.Thus the addition of mahogany trees have aesthetic value and can serve as a pollution-reducing effect was also contain chemicals that play an important role in alternative medicine. Nothing wrong with that we know the types and benefits of these plants, so that we can play a role in conserving the environment in the most natural, that is to plant and maintain it.