📩 Torenia crustacea

Traditional Herbs from Torenia crustacea

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• Prepare 15 g of fresh ketok betel leaves.
• Wash the leaves thoroughly with running water.
• Boil them in 2 glasses of water for 15 minutes. Cool and strain the concoction.
• Drink the filtered results 2 times a day as many times.\u00a0

What is Torenia crustacea Looks like??

Parts of Torenia crustacea that could be used

• All Parts of the Plant

Torenia crustacea Distribution

It is a plant native to tropical Asia and has now spread throughout tropical areas such as tropical Africa, North America, South America and the West Indies. In Asia, especially Indonesia and Malaysia, this plant is known and used as a medicinal herb
Agroecology of Torenia crustacea
Grows in the lowlands up to a height of 1,300 m above sea level. Likes damp to wet environments such as rice fields, grasslands, irrigated crops, river banks, swamp edges, damp grasslands, lawns, disturbed forests, plantations and along the sides of roads and paths.
Morphology of Torenia crustacea

• Slender stem, sharp rectangular to narrow with 4 wings, corners with short hairs, purplish green, many branches.
• Leaves opposite, purplish green, ovate, oval or lanceolate, apex obtuse or sub-obtuse, base of leaf rounded, serrated edges at different distances, length 0.5-2.5 cm, width 0.51.5 cm.
• Flowers pale blue or purplish, petals green or purplish.
• The fruit is a brown capsule, thin, ovate and 3.5-5 mm long.
• The seeds are pale brown, elliptical, blunt at both ends, tuberculate, 0.5 mm long.

Cultivation of Torenia crustacea
Generative (seed) and vegetative propagation (separation or splitting of seedlings from plant clumps). The seeds are very small and easily spread by wind, water, animals and as contaminants in machinery, soil and plants.�

Torenia crustacea, more details :

Chemical Content of Torenia crustacea
Flavonoids, lignin glucoside, phenyl alcohol glycoside, phenylpropene glycoside, glucosyl glycerol derivatives, furanones, cinnamic acid derivatives, diterpenes, anthraaquinones, ionones, phenylpropanoids.
Benefits of Torenia crustacea
Treating navel infections, uterine bleeding, vaginal discharge, jaundice, colic, boils, itching and wounds, treating aches and pains.
Simplisia of Torenia crustacea

• Harvest the leaves or other plant parts then sort the ingredients (choose healthy ingredients).
• Wash the ingredients with clean water then air dry/hang in the sun until dry or the water content is less than 10%.
• Pack in plastic ( vacuum), label and include the processing date. Store indoors (temperature 8-15\u00b0C).\u00a0

Another Facts for Torenia crustacea :

Synonym of Torenia crustacea
Hornemannia ovata� Link & Otto, Lindernia crustacea� (L.) F.Muell., Lindernia gracilis� (Bonati) Bonati
Habitus of Torenia crustacea
Herb. Annual herb, reaching 8-20 cm high
Habitat of Torenia crustacea

• Riverside
• Roadside
• Grassland