KOMPAS.com – Kencur is a medicinal plant classified as a meeting (Zingiberaceae).
Still one family with turmeric, ginger, key and the like with similarity growing without stems and forming rhizomes in the soil so that it is called rhizome plants.
Check out Kencur information as a medicinal plant with full health properties, quoted from the book “Super Efficacy of Traditional Natural Beverage Kencur & Turmeric Asem (2021) by M. Yusuf Sina published by Creative Diandra.
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Get to know kencur
Kencur is thought to have originated from India and then cultivated widespread in Southeast Asia, South China and Northern Australia.
Kencur has soft stems not woody or contains a little wood tissue. Grow in the lowlands with a temperature of 26 to 30 degrees Celsius.
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Based on the results of laboratory research, kencur plants contain more than 23 compounds and seven of them contain monoterpenned compounds, aromatic compounds, and seskituitterpena compounds.
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In addition there are starch, minerals, and essential oils in the form of sineol, methyl canil and penta, cinnamic acid, ethyl aster, sinamic acid, borneol, kamphene, paradearin, anisic acid, alkaloids, and gom.
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The efficacy of kencur
Methanol extracts from kencur plants show the activity of fighting toxocara Canis a type of parasitic worm that causes toxocariasis.
Effective against three species that cause central nervous system disease, bacteria cause infections in the cornea of the eye, and the extract of its rhizomes prevents the activity of the Epstein-Barr virus.
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Kencur is stimulant so that it can be used as an enhancer. Kencur can also overcome bloating because it is carminative.
Kencur which is processed into kencur rice herbal medicine is also able to overcome coughing, headaches, asthma, influenza, diarrhea, facilitate menstruation, and eliminate fatigue.
