Besides eating, I have also been indulging in my other hobby of looking for herbal plants. I went to a nursery to buy the Mahkota Dewa or God's Crown for my school. It would used in a tree planting ceremony for a school programme.
This herbal plant is touted to provide cures for a number of diseases. Nowadays, it is becoming more well known and the man at the nursery told me that he had just sent an order of 300 such plantlets and all he had left were the bigger plants which cost somewhere between RM100 to RM120. As I am a regular customer he sold the plant to me for RM80.
Here is information about the plant and I am sure that after reading it, you would know what all the big Hoo Hah is about.
MAHKOTA DEWA
Scientific Name : Phaleria Macrocarpa (Scheff.) Boerl
Common names : Mahkota Dewa, Simalakama, God's Crown
Genus: Phaleria
Description of Plant :
Mahkota dewa is a plant that grows throughout the year, it can reach the height of 3-4m. Its sappy stem with brown greenish bark, white stem in colour and taproots.
Leaf :
The leaf has oval, thin, long and sharp edge , flat smooth and non furry surface
Flower :
The flower is small, white in color and has pleasant smell. It looks like clover.
Fruit :
Mahkota dewa fruit comprises skin, flesh,….and seeds. The fruit is round in shape, has diameter of 3-5cm, smooth surface, drill, green in color when young and red when ripening. The flesh is white, fibrous and watery.
Flesh :
It is the most beneficial component of the fruit, which commonly used in medication
Seed :
The most poisonous part. It has oval in shape, and the diameter is about 1cm and has brown in color. The inner part is white in color.
Characteristics & Benefits :
The fruit skin and flesh : cure dysentery, psoriasis and acne.
Leaf and seed :cure various types of skin pain such as eczema, hepatotoxic & antibody.
Fruit : antitumour, anti dysentry, anti insecta, cure eczema, hepatotoxic & antibody.
Healing capabilities of Mahkota Dewa
- cancer & tumor
- Eczema (skin disease)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Hypertensive (High blood pressure)
- Hepatitis
- Rheumatic (joints paint)
- Gout Arthritis
- Heart disease
- Kidney failure
-The fruit especially its seed is poisonous, it has to be braised before eaten.
-Pregnant women is prohibited to drink this processed plant.
Source: http://www.bio-asli.com/herb/e_herb/e_daun.asp
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