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                                       Baeckea frutescens      

 

FALSE RU  ujung atap

Baeckea is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. There are about 75 species, of which 70 are endemic to Australia; the others are distributed in New Caledonia and Southeast Asia. 

English: Baeckea frutescens. 

Common names: False Ru. Cucur Atap (Malay).

 Distributed from Malaysia, China to Australia. 

In traditional medicine, the entire plant except the roots is used to treat dysentery and as a diuretic. It is also used to treat fevers, flu, jaundice, headaches, measles, colic and abdominal pains.

End of the roof  (Baeckea frutescens) is a medicinal plant in Indonesia. The wood used to make fences and powders for liniment abdominal pain. As materials and herbal medicine, the plant is known by the name jungrahab .

 Dried leaves as beverage for health tea/tonic; essential oils for scents and soap.

This plant has got exactly nothing to do with plants of the Pinus genus or any other conifer, except in name.

A shrub and sometimes small tree, it has linear leaf blades with an abundance of oil glands. When rubbed or crushed, its leaves will produce a strong, sharp, stingy, head-clearing aroma - pleasant, by all accounts.

We can see in stalls  which sells baeckea frutescens tea bags too – and had let us sample some.

The refreshing tea is said to be a tonic and herbal treatment for fever, headache and rheumatism, among other things. Its pleasant aroma is much like the tea tree.

ayu ends of the roof used to make fences. It is said that the wood is dark red, extraordinarily hard and dense, heavy, and very durable.  

The leaves are used for beverages, tea, laxative urine (diuretic), and abortivum. In traditional medicine, both in Malaysia and Indonesia, it is used to nourish the body's mother who had just given birth. Lumatan leaf edge of the roof that is mixed with water believed to cure sore. The leaves are also useful as a liniment for the whole body.  The leaves are sold in the Malay Peninsula during the Dutch colonial occupation by the name bowsprit leaf roof.  Flower edge of the roof in traditional medicine in order to treat appetite problems.  Baliem Valley, a drug used for fever, abdominal pain, and mosquito repellent and made ​​for a broom.  Crude (basic ingredients) of this plant, in Pharmacognosy known as Baeckea Folium (leaf Jungrahab) and, at least in the past, included as one of the crude drug which must be available in pharmacies. 

End of the roof smell nice, like lavender because it contains essential oils (pinene, g-terpinena, p-sinmonena, limonena, linalol, etc.). It also contains substances (glycosides) that smells like resin. Phenol and baeckeol have been isolated from the plant end of this roof.  

Ethanol extract of the edge of the roof showed cytotoxic activity against leukemia cells in the network. Three flavonoids found on the leaf edge of the roof, the BF-4, BF-5, BF-6 and showed strong activity against sitosik leukemia cells. Baeckea frutescens is also known to be a potential anti-caries against Streptococcus mutans. Extract the edge of the roof shows anti-inhibitory activity against malaria parasites strong (Plasmodium falciparum) but not against the babesial (Babesia gibsoni).      
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