Medicine from sim tree
Many people cannot help but admire the purple color of sim flowers, but few people know about their wonderful medicinal uses.
A gift from nature
According to the advice of doctors at the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital of Traditional Medicine, the wild sim tree is a precious medicine, familiar in many folk remedies.
Wild sim belongs to the myrtaceae family, divided into two types: red sim and small sim. Red sim has red flowers and purple fruit, small sim has white flowers and black fruit.
The sim tree is one to two meters tall, growing in wild lands, at an altitude of 10 to 1,500 meters. In Vietnam
Many people often mistake wild sim for mua flowers. However, if you look closely, you will see that the leaves of the sim tree are oval, 3 to 6cm long, growing opposite each other on the tree trunk. When ripe, the sim fruit is dark purple or dark black, with a layer of fine white hair on the skin. When eaten, the fruit has an astringent, sweet taste, so it is often used as a thirst quencher for passersby.
Plants that benefit from root to tip
According to Oriental medicine documents, wild sim tree contains quite a lot of pigment. This type of substance contains a lot of pelargonidin used as a natural dye in food processing.
Besides products from wild sim such as sim flower tea, wine, honey, syrup... people also extract the essence from the sim tree to process into cosmetics such as perfume, soap... Not stopping at applications in the food and cosmetics fields, parts of the wild sim tree, from the trunk, leaves, roots to fruits, flowers are also good medicine for health.
Many people cannot help but admire the purple color of sim flowers, but few people know about their wonderful uses. Sim flowers, whether purple or white, contain many tannins, nicotinic acid, riboflavin (vitamin B2), and flavonoids. In addition to their antiseptic effects, these substances also have antioxidant effects and neutralize free radicals in the body.
Therefore, soaked sim flowers can be used to clean ulcers. In addition, you can take sim leaves and boil them into water to wash wounds and scratches. Or you can wash fresh sim leaves, crush them, and apply them to wounds to help stop bleeding and heal the skin quickly.
You can also use the rose myrtle buds to make a drink, which is quite effective in treating diarrhea or digestive disorders.
In addition, sim leaves contain a lot of ellagic tannins, when combined with substances from sim flowers and fruits to create a very good medicine to treat hepatitis.
Rhdomyrtone in blackberry leaves acts as an antibiotic, helping to fight against the invasion of dangerous bacteria such as escherichia coli and staphylococcus aureus. These are bacteria that cause food poisoning.
Sim fruit is also a good medicine for people who have been sick for a long time. People with physical weakness, women after giving birth with anemia can drink a decoction of sim fruit, black beans, and young mulberry leaves to nourish the body. You can steam the ripe fruit, dry it for later use.
The roots and stems of the sim tree are effective in treating heart disease, stopping bleeding, and detoxifying. Women with menstrual disorders can use medicinal herbs from the sim tree to treat the disease, but must be supervised by a doctor of Oriental medicine. According to a recent study, products from the wild sim tree can help improve the sexual performance of men.
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