Guava ( Psidium guajava )

Guava (Psidium guajava)
Physical Characteristics
The figure of this plant a small tree. Height of about 2-10m. The trunk is small and hard. Surface shiny brown bark and easily peeled. The leaves are oval rather menjorong with bone line leaves the firm. The flowers are white leaf out of the armpit. Guava fruit is round. While still young, dark green fruits and turned into light green or yellowish green after dark or cooking. Meat fruits contain seeds that very much. Seeds small size and very hard.
Place to grow
This plant grows in the lowland to highland with an altitude of 1,200 m asl. Loose soil to clay can be planted. It would be better if the site is open space and plenty of water.
Multiplication
To plant a guava, can be done through seed, grafting, or move the shoots that have been rooted.
Content of chemical substances
Guava leaves contain tannin, eugenol (essential oils), fatty oils, resins, tanning substances, triterpinoid, and afel acid. The fruit contains amino acids (tryptophan, lysine), calcium, phosphorus, iron, sulfur, vitamin A, vitamin B1, and vitamin C.
Efficacy for the treatment of

Diarrhea
Boil fresh guava leaves weighing 30g along with a handful of rice flour and 1-2 cups of water. Water decoction is drunk two times a day. Another way is 3 pieces of fresh young guava leaves chewed with a little salt, then swallowed. Apply treatment 2 times a day.
Sprue
Boil 1 handful fresh guava leaves and bark with a finger 1lt water. Strain the stew. Drink herb distillate as much as 2 times a day.
Diabetes
Take a guava fruit is still mengkal, then cut into pieces. Furthermore, boiled guava pieces with 3 cups of water until the water remaining 1 cup. Strain the cooking water before you drink 2 times a day.
Oozing sores or ulcers around the bone
Mash the fresh guava leaves. affix leaves squash in place the sick. Apply treatment several times a day.
Hemorrhoid
Take some leaves of guava young stone or stone-tongued and a banana. Rinse the two materials. Furthermore, these two ingredients mashed banana without peeling first stone. Absorb water from the juice, then drink. Perform regular daily treatment. Although the pain is gone, the water still drink potions so that the disease is completely cured.
Bloating in children
Pick 3 pieces of guava leaves are still young and fresh. Boil the leaves with 2 cups water with ½ finger pulosari bark and 5 grains of fennel. Boiling is performed until the remaining 1 cup of water only. Before drinking should be filtered first. 3-year-old child can be given this herb a day 3 times as much as 2 tablespoons, whereas older children were given one cup daily.