Breadfruit included in the genus Artocarpus (Moraceae family) that consists of 50 species of woody plants, which only grows in hot and humid areas in Southeast Asia and the Pacific islands. The fruit is round and rough thick-skinned, with light green and yellow colors with a weight of about 1.5 – 3 kg. Breadfruit can be used to foodstuffs. People usually use them for snacks, such as boiled, fried, or made chips and compote. There also are using it as raw material for flour and noodles.
Not many people who planted it. Besides lack of “sell”, people do not really know the benefits of these plants. Often some people cutting down trees in the yard, and replace them with other crops such as banana or mango. But the truth is very useful breadfruit. The leaves have some health benefits, effective for treating various diseases such as liver, hepatitis, dental pain, itching, enlarged spleen, heart, and kidney. In fact, the people of Ambon use the bark for medicine withdraw blood for the woman who had given birth 8-10 days.
Leaves of these plants contain several potent substances such as acid hidrosianat, asetilcolin, tannins, riboflavin, and so forth. These substances are also able to overcome the inflammation. Save the Kidneys There is also what makes the leaves as an alternative to save the ailing kidneys. It’s easy, but be patient.
First step, prepare three pieces of dark green leaves, but still on the limb. Then wash in running water. Furthermore chopped and sun to dry. Prepare also a container and fill with two liters of clean water. Keep the container made of pottery clay, but if nobody else can also use stainless steel pans. Enter the dried leaves and then cooked to a boil, reserving the water until its volume by half.
Next, add one liter of clean water, and boil again until the half. Then the filter was boiled breadfruit leaf. Water color red, like tea. It’s a bit bitter. Please drink until they run out, should not be left to kesesokan day. So forth.
In order not to bother commute takes three pieces of leaves, should provide sliced breadfruit leaves dry for a week. The trick, have dark green leaves as much as 3 x 7 = 21 pieces. The next process just like the way above, so we have a number of chopped dried breadfruit leaves, but is divided into seven packs.
Each day take a pack, boil, strain, and drink. If you belong to can not stand the bitter, can add a little honey every time a drink.
Breadfruit leaves also can be used for treating heart disease. The trick, take the old one breadfruit leaves still attached on the tree. Breadfruit leaves parents have maximal levels of chemical substances.
Wash thoroughly and then dried in the sun to dry. Then boiled to a boil with five glasses of water and leave until a half. Add water again until you reach the volume of five cups. Once filtered, boiling water was ready to be drunk and should not be left to run out tomorrow.
Some experts doubt the efficacy of traditional medicine was breadfruit leaf. But the public already believes and prove the efficacy of breadfruit leaves that can cure heart disease and kidney.
In the book collection of the Botanical Gardens Bogor Botanical medicine, this plant does not fit. The only literature that reveals the effects of diuretic and cardiotonic breadfruit only book Indian Medicinal Plants. That was just about the fruit. Do they contain chemicals that merit ?
Of course, still need to conduct further research by the parties involved, because it is traditional medicine from plants, although initially believed the story only by word of mouth. Thus, the study is very important for world health.