JATROPHA / RICINUS COMMUNIS

Previously, when the Japanese invaded Indonesia, Japan forced the Indonesian people to be taken to plant jatropha oil as fuel and lubricants of weapons ship.

Traditionally, the Java community is actually used to take advantage of the leaf and fruit oils distance to cope with various health problems, namely diarrhea, fever, itching, and chronic ulcers.




PART OF THE USUAL DISTANCE TREE USED

• Seeds: The difficulty of defecation (Constipation), cervical cancer and skin (Carsinoma of the cervix and skin), visceroptosis / gastroptosis, obstructed labor and retention of placenta / afterbirth (Difficult labor and retention of the placenta), facial muscle paralysis (facial nerve paralysis), glandular tuberculosis, boils, sores, scabies and fungal infections. Also used in swelling (edema).
• Leaves: ulceration, eczema, itching (pruritus), cough shortness, hernia.
• root: rheumatic joints, tetanus, epilepsy, bronchitis in children, injuries hit, glandular tuberculosis, schizophrenia (mental disorder).
• Oil: Constipasi, sores, burns.

Ingredients and Benefits: Jatropha seeds contain the toxic range but the toxicity is reduced when heated. Castor beans should only be used as an external medicine. Its roots can be used as a sedative and rheumatism.

Usefulness:

1. Constipation
   80-10 crushed castor beans, and then given a little water and squeeze. Drink the juice at once.
2. Constipation in Children
   Grease a distance of a few leaves with coconut oil. After withered on the fire, put the leaves into your child's abdomen.
3. Dandruff
   Finely crushed leaves some distance, then rub into the scalp. Do this before shampooing
4. Rheumatism
   Method I: A handful of crushed leaves of the distance as he was given a little water. Then apply to
                   the sore spot.
   Method II : 25 g of fresh root distance boiled with 1 l of water until the water half. Drink this  
                   concoction 2x a day
   Method III: A few leaves of coconut oil spread with distance, and then withered in the fire. Paste it into
                  a place that leaves hospital.
5. Nourish hair
   20-30 crushed castor beans, and then squeezed to take the oil. Rub the oil into the scalp.
6. Breast tightening
   3 leaves the distance, two betel nuts, 1 thumb ginger, 1 teaspoon salt ½ cup crushed as he was given water. Apply this mixture to your breast and let stand until dry. After that, wash your breasts with warm water.
7. Gumboil
   5 sheets leaf spacing, 1 tablespoon whiting boiled in 4 cups of water. Once filtered, use water to rinse.
8. Toothache
   Squirt sap distance on the tooth cavities. 
9. Jatropha can be to treat the cut / bleeding from falls, hit by sharp weapons or stumble stones.
   Distance and then picking the leaves will come out the sap of the stem end, then the sap was applied to the wound, wait a while to dry out before the sap can indulge again