🔴 Lophatherum gracile

Traditional Herbs from Lophatherum gracile

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• Wash thoroughly 15 g bamboo grass leaves and 15 g alang-alang roots.
• Boil the ingredients in 3 glasses of water until 1 glass remains.
• Strain then drink the concoction while it's warm.

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• Prepare boiled water and bamboo grass roots.
• Wash clean and boil the ingredients.
• Strain then drink the concoction while it's warm.

What is Lophatherum gracile Looks like??

Parts of Lophatherum gracile that could be used

• Leaves
• Roots

Lophatherum gracile Distribution

Bamboo grass is found in many tropical countries such as Asia, from India, Sri Lanka, Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, Southeast China, Thailand, to Australia. This plant is a weed plant that is often used as herbal medicine and almost all parts of this plant contain secondary steroid metabolite compounds.
Agroecology of Lophatherum gracile
Usually grows in shady places, but not too dry or wet. It grows wild on roadsides, bushes or forest edges from the middle plains to the high mountains, from an altitude of 800-2,500 m above sea level.
Morphology of Lophatherum gracile

• Fibrous roots that grow into tubers.
• Stems\u00a0are small, long, creeping, yellow, longitudinally grooved and inside there is a cavity with the tip of the stem upwards.
• Leaves are wide lanceolate, located alternately second the surface has white hairs, the edge of the leaf is flat, the base of the leaf narrows into a stalk that hugs the stem and is green in color, the leaf bones are parallel and the middle bone protrudes from the bottom surface of the leaf.
• The compound flowers are in the form of panicles, the flower stalks are long 10-30 cm, flowers are small, mesh-shaped spikes.

Cultivation of Lophatherum gracile
Propagated by seeds and root shoots.

Lophatherum gracile, more details :

Chemical Content of Lophatherum gracile
Triterpenoids, tannins, cyclindin, β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, alkaloids, campesterol, teraxerol, steroids arundoin, cylandrin, luteolin, salcolin A, B, tricin, afzelin, isoorientin, vitexin.
Benefits of Lophatherum gracile
Treats cancer, fever, bloody urine, urination that is not smooth and painful, nosebleeds, sore throat, canker sores, swollen gums, antimalarial.
Simplisia of Lophatherum gracile

• Collect all the sufficient parts of the bamboo grass plant then wash them until clean.
• Air dry for several days.
• After drying, put them in a sterile, airtight container.

Another Facts for Lophatherum gracile :

Synonym of Lophatherum gracile
Acroelytrum japonicum Steud., Acroelytrum urvillei (Steud.) Steud. ex Miq., Allelotheca urvillei Steud.
Habitus of Lophatherum gracile
Herb. Annual herb, reaching 40-100 cm in height
Habitat of Lophatherum gracile

• Forest
• Grassland