Tapak dara: Gampang ditanam dan Berkhasiat

Tanaman ini tumbuh di sembarang tempat. Padahal, jika kita mau merawatnya, selain indah juga banyak khasiatnya, lho. Sehari-harinya, tanaman tapak dara tak terlalu diperhatikan. Ia bisa tumbuh di tepian parit, tumbuh menggeliat tanpa aturan, atau ada pula yang tumbuh dipinggir jalan raya dengan kondisi apa adanya.

Pokoknya, tumbuh liar, tanpa pemilik. Sungguh, kasihan si tapak dara itu.

Suatu saat, saya berkunjung ke rumah sahabat saya. Begitu masuk ke halaman rumahnya, saya kaget. Betapa indah penampilan tapak dara. Ditata rapi dalam pot, lalu diletakkan pada tempat yang pas: ada yang berjajar, ada pula yang berselang-seling dengan tanaman hias lain.

Saya semakin sadar, ketika saya perhatikan satu demi satu sekujur tubuh tapak dara. Bunganya muncul dari ketiak daun. Warna bunga ada yang putih, ada pula yang merah muda. Kelopak bunga kecil, berbentuk paku. Mahkota bunga berbentuk terompet, dan ujungnya melebar. Tepi bunga datar, terdiri dari taju bunga berbentuk bulat telur, dan ujungnya runcing menutup ke kiri. Tapak dara memiliki rumah biji yang berbentuk silindris menggantung pada batang. Buahnya berbentuk silindris, ujung lancip, berbulu, panjang sekitar 1,5 – 2,5 cm, dan memiliki banyak biji.

Kemudian batangnya berbentuk bulat dengan diameter berukuran kecil, berkayu, beruas, bercabang, dan berambut sangat lebat. Tinggi tanaman bisa mencapai 0,2 – 1 meter, dan mengandung getah. Daunnya berbentuk bulat telur, berwarna hijau, dan diklasifikasikan berdaun tunggal. Panjang daun sekitar 2 – 6 cm, lebar 1 – 3 cm, dan tangkai daunnya sangat pendek.

Tampil Indah
Tanaman tapak dara (Catharanthus roseus) termasuk familia Apocynaceae. Di Malaysia orang menyebutnya keminting cina atau rumput jala. Di Inggris diberi nama perwinkle. Di Cina diberi nama chang chun hua. Di Belanda dinamakan soldaten bloem. Sedangkan di Indonesia memiliki beberapa nama daerah. Orang Jawa menyebutnya kembang tapakdoro, orang Sunda kembang tembaga, orang Sulawesi memanggilnya sindapor. Sementara di Sumatera, ia di kenal dengan nama kemunting cina atau tapak liman.

Tapak dara berasal dari benua Amerika, tetapi sekarang sudah menyebar ke segala penjuru. Bisa tumbuh baik mulai daratan rendah sampai ketinggian 800 m di atas permukaan laut. Pada dasarnya, ia menyukai tempat-tempat yang terbuka, tapi tak menutup kemungkinan bisa tumbuh di tempat yang agak terlindung pula.

Bagi penggemar tanaman hias, tapak dara sering dihadirkan pada sebuah taman. Bukan saja sekedar melengkapi koleksi tanaman hias di sana, namun juga sengaja ditampilkan untuk menambah estetika taman itu. Selain itu, ada juga yang menanamnya di tanah perkarangan, atau di pot.

DITANAM DI MANA SAJA

Tapak dara biasanya diperbanyak dengan bijinya yang lembut. Caranya, sediakan biji-biji yang tua, lalu semaikan pada suatu tempat persemaian. Masukkan biji ke dalam tanah, lalu tutup dengan lapisan tanah setipis tebal bijinya. Rajinlah menyiram. Bila biji-biji mulai tumbuh, dan tingginya sudah mencapai sekitar 15 – 20 cm, silahkan dipindahkan ke tempat yang diinginkan.

Jika ingin ditanam dalam pot, tentu perlu disiapkan pot dan media tanamnya. Pot bisa dari tanah liat, semen, atau kaleng bekas. Media tanamnya berupa campuran tanah subur, kompos, dan pupuk kandang (2 : 1 : 1). Bibit langsung ditanam, dan setelah itu diletakkan di tempat teduh. Seminggu kemudian, ditempatkan di tempat terbuka.
Jika ingin ditanam di kebun pekarangan, perlu dibuat lubang tanah berukuran 15 x 151 x 15 cm, dengan jarak di antara lubang 50 cm. Tiap lubang diberi pupuk kandang atau kompos sebanyak 1,5 kg. Masukkan bibit ke dalam lubang, lalu timbun dengan tanah, dan siram.

Untuk perawatannya, tapak dara tidak menuntut perawatan khusus. Asal disiram dan diberi pupuk, sudah cukup. Pada awal pertumbuhan, gunakan pupuk yang kandungan nitrogennya tinggi, atau pupuk daun yang disemprotkan pada permukaan bawah daun di pagi hari. Kemudian, ketika tanaman mulai berbunga, untuk merangsang pembungaan, dapat digunakan pupuk yang memiliki kandungan fosfor tinggi. Nah, jika rajin merawat, tentulah dijamin tapak dara akan berbunga sepanjang tahun.

MENUMPAS KANKER PAYUDARA

Selain indah tampilannya, tapak dara juga menyimpan rahasia pengobatan alternatif. Hasil penelitian para pakar Kanada – Ely Lilly, Svoboda, dan Noble – serta laporan H. Sutarno dan Radjiman menunjukkan bahwa ada empat zat dalam tapak dara yang bisa dimanfaatkan:
Vinblasine, ternyata bisa dimanfaatkan dalam pengobatan penyakit leukemia.
Vincristine, disamping dipakai dalam pengobatan leukemia, juga kanker payudara, dan tumor ganas lainnya.

Vindesine, dipakai dalam pengobatan leukemia pada anak-anak, dan penderita tumor pigmen.
Vinorelbine, seringkali digunakan sebagai bahan pengobatan untuk mencegah pembelahan kelenjar.
Adapun resepnya sebagai berikut:
- Sediakan 22 helai daun tapak dara, kulit kayu pulasari (Alyxia reinwardti), dan buah adas (Foeniculum vulgare).
- Cuci bersih, lalu rebus dalam air bersih sebanyak 3 gelas.
- Tambahkan gula merah secukupnya, dan biarkan mendidih, hingga nantinya tinggal separuhnya.
- Setelah dingin, saring, lalu diminum. Lakukan sehari 3 kali, setiap kali minum sebanyak setengah gelas. Minum ah selama sebulan.

BANYAK KHASIATNYA
Selain kanker payudara, beberapa khasiat tapak dara untuk pengobatan antara lain:

- Anemia
Ambil empat putik bunga tapak dara, cuci, lalu rendam dalam segelas air. Sebaiknya perendaman dilakukan di luar rumah selama semalam. Lalu esoknya, saring, dan minum.

- Asma dan Bronkhitis
Gunakan sepotong bonggol akar tapak dara, lantas rebus dalam lima gelas air. Biarkan mendidih hingga tinggal setengahnya. Setelah dingin, saring, dan minum dua kali sehari.

- Batu ginjal
Ambil segenggam daun tapak dara, cuci bersih, lalu rebus dalam tiga gelas air sampai airnya tinggal setengah. Minumlah dua kali sehari.

- Bisul
Cuci segenggam daun tapak dara, lalu lumatkan. Sebelum ditempelkan pada bisul, sebaiknya permukaan bisul dibersihkan lebih dahulu.

- Diabetes
Kumpulkan 10 – 16 lembar daun tapak dara, lantas rebus dalam tiga gelas air. Biarkan mendidih, hingga sisanya segelas. Setelah dingin, saring dan minum.

- Hipertensi
Siapkan sekitar 15 – 20 gram daun tapak dara kering dan 10 gram bunga krisan. Rebus keduanya dalam 2 setengah gelas air sampai mendidih. Setelah dingin, saring, lalu minum. Biasanya diminum menjelang tidur.

- Leukemia
Siapkan 20 – 25 gram daun tapak dara kering, dan juga buah adas. Rebus dalam seliter air, dan biarkan mendidih hingga sisanya tinggal separuh. Setelah dingin, saring. Minum dua kali sehari.

- Tangan gemetar
Ambil lima lembar daun tapak dara, lalu seduh dengan segelas air panas. Setelah dingin, saring dan minum dua kali sehari.

Asuhan: Hieronymus Budi Santoso
Team Nova

This article was translated by Google Translator. Thank you Google.

Tread virgin: Easily grown and Efficacious

These plants grow in any place. In fact, if we want to take care of him, but also a lot of beautiful properties, you know. Day-to-day, the plant had little personal interest tread virgin. He can grow on the banks of ditches, grow squirm without rules, or some are grown alongside a highway with the condition is.

Anyway, growing wild, with no owner. Really, sorry for the tread virgin.

One time, I visited my friend's house. Once inside the yard, I was surprised. What a beautiful appearance tread virgin. Arranged neatly in a pot, then put in the right place: there are lined, some are alternating with other ornamental plants.

I am increasingly aware, when I noticed one by one all over his body tread virgin. The flowers arise from axillary leaves. There is a white flower color, some are pink. Petals small, shaped nails. Trumpet-shaped petals, and widened ends. Edge of a flat rate, consist of an oval-shaped flowers Taju, and sharp edges close to the left. Tread virgin has a cylindrical seed houses hanging on the rod. The fruit is cylindrical, pointed toes, hairy, a length of approximately 1.5 to 2.5 cm, and has many seeds.

Then the stem is round with a small diameter, woody, segmented, branched, and very bushy hair. Plant height can reach 0.2 to 1 meter, and contain the sap. The leaves are oval shaped, dark green, leafy and classified single. Leaf length of about 2-6 cm, width 1-3 cm, leaves and stalks are very short.

Shown Beautiful
Plant footprint dara (Catharanthus roseus) Apocynaceae including familia. In Malaysia, people call keminting china or grass nets. In the UK be named perwinkle. In China are named chang chun hua. In the Netherlands named soldaten Bloem. While in Indonesia has several regional names. People call it flower tapakdoro Java, the Sundanese copper flowers, people called him sindapor Sulawesi. While in Sumatra, he was known by the name of china or tread liman kemunting.

Tread virgin comes from the Americas, but now has spread to all corners. Can grow well start lowland until height of 800 m above sea level. Basically, he likes the places that are open, but no rule can be grown in place rather well protected.

For fans of ornamental plants, tread virgin is often presented in a park. Not only just a complete collection of ornamental plants in there, but also deliberately shown to increase the aesthetics of the park. In addition, there is also planted in the ground perkarangan, or in pots.

PLANTED IN ANYWHERE

Tread virgin is usually propagated by seeds are soft. The trick, provide the old seeds, and Seeding at a nursery place. Enter the seeds into the soil, then cover with a thick soil layer as thin as the seeds. Be diligent watering. When the seeds begin to grow, and the height has reached approximately 15-20 cm, please be moved to the desired place.

If you want to be planted in pots, the pot would need to be prepared using the earnings and the media. Pots can be made of clay, cement, or tin cans. Media cropping a mixture of fertile soil, compost, and manure (2: 1: 1). Seeds planted directly, and then placed in the shade. A week later, placed in the open.
If you want to be planted in the garden courtyard, the ground needs to be made a hole measuring 15 x 151 x 15 cm, the distance between holes 50 cm. Each hole is given manure or compost as much as 1.5 kg. Enter the seeds into the hole, then piled with soil, and water.

For maintenance, tread virgin does not demand special treatment. Origin watered and fertilized, is sufficient. At the beginning of growth, use a high nitrogen content fertilizer, or fertilizer that is sprayed on the leaf lower surface of leaves in the morning. Then, when the plants begin flowering, to stimulate flowering, can be used fertilizer that has a high phosphorus content. Well, if diligent care, would have been guaranteed tread virgin will bloom throughout the year.

BREAST CANCER quell

In addition to beautiful looks, well kept secrets of tread virgin alternative medicine. The results of Canadian research experts - Ely Lilly, Svoboda, and Noble - as well as reports of H. Sutarno and Radjiman show that there are four substances in a virgin site that can be utilized:
Vinblasine, it can be used in the treatment of leukemia.
Vincristine, in addition to use in the treatment of leukemia, as well as breast cancer and other malignant tumors.

Vindesine, used in the treatment of leukemia in children, and patients with pigmented tumors.
Vinorelbine, is often used as a treatment to prevent cleavage of the gland.
As for the recipe as follows:
- Provide 22 tread virgin leaves, bark pulasari (Alyxia reinwardti), and fennel fruit (Foeniculum vulgare).
- Wash thoroughly, then boiled in clean water as much as 3 cups.
- Add the brown sugar to taste, and simmer, until later just half.
- Once cool, strain, and drink. Perform a day three times, each time a drink as much as half a glass. Ah drink for a month.

LOT usefulness
In addition to breast cancer, several properties of virgin tread for treatment include:

- Anemia
Take four tread virgin flower pistil, wash, then soak in a glass of water. Immersion should be done outside the home during the night. Then the next day, strain, and drink.

- Asthma and Bronchitis
Use a piece of the root weevil tread virgin, then boiled in five glasses of water. Let boil down to half. Once cool, strain, and drink two times a day.

- Kidney stones
Take a handful of leaves tread virgin, wash clean, then boiled in three cups of water until the water a half. Drink twice a day.

- Ulcers
Wash a handful of leaves tread virgin, then mash. Before affixed to a boil, boil the surface should be cleaned first.

- Diabetes
Collect 10-16 leaves tread virgin, then boiled in three cups of water. Simmer, until the remaining glass. Once cool, strain and drink.

- Hypertension
Prepare approximately 15-20 grams of dried leaves tread virgin and 10 grams of chrysanthemum flowers. Boil them in 2 and a half cups water to boil. Once cool, strain and drink. Usually taken at bedtime.

- Leukemia
Prepare 20-25 grams of dried leaves tread virgin, and also the fruit of anise. Boil in a quart of water, and simmer until the remaining half. Once cool, strain. Drink twice a day.

- Hand shaking
Take five tread virgin leaves, then pour boiling water with a glass of hot water. Once cool, strain and drink twice a day.

Orphanage: Hieronymus Budi Santoso
Team Nova