🎉 Dicliptera tinctoria

Traditional Herbs from Dicliptera tinctoria

wounds

• Take enough magenta leaves and wash them until clean.
• Crush the leaves into a paste.
• Apply the leaves to the problem skin area.

overcoming_bronchitis

• Prepare enough magenta leaves then wash them until clean.
• Boil magenta leaves until boiling.
• Strain the boiled product.
• Drink while warm.

What is Dicliptera tinctoria Looks like??

Parts of Dicliptera tinctoria that could be used

• Leaf

Dicliptera tinctoria Distribution

Magenta comes from Southeast Asia, namely from South Assam to Sri Lanka, Cambodia, South-Central China, Southeast China, Hainan, Java, Laos, Malaya, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam. Magenta leaf extract is used as a food coloring, and gives a magenta color to some Vietnamese foods, especially taro-filled cakes. This plant is used in traditional Chinese medicine such as treating coughs, dysentery and others.
Agroecology of Dicliptera tinctoria
Plants are found at an altitude of 500-1,000 m above sea level. Grows well in shaded conditions (only morning sun), requires fertile soil (sandy loam and sandy clay loam), high humidity, low temperature, low light intensity and normal pH.
Morphology of Dicliptera tinctoria

• Stems 5 or 6 angled, many branched, grooved, velvety hairy.
• Leaves petioles measuring up to 3.5 cm,\u00a0leaves ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 3-14.5 x 1.5- 5.3 cm, both surfaces are smooth, velvety or become hairless, secondary veins 5 or 6 on each side of the middle vein, base wide wedge-shaped to nearly round, sinuous edges, tapered to pointed tip.
• Flowers are arranged in cymes in the leaf axils or at the ends of branches, stalked flower clusters measuring 0.3-2.3 cm -5.7 cm, velvety outer hair with non-glandular trichomes,\u00a0tube about 1.5 mm in diameter. Lower lip wide ovate-elliptical. 2.2-2.6 x about 1.8 cm, tip notched,\u00a0upper lip oval, 2-2.5 x about 0.9 cm, 3 lobes staminal about 1.3 cm.
• Fruit capsule measuring about 1.5 cm, hairy like velvet.
• Seeds about 1.5 x 1.5 mm.

Cultivation of Dicliptera tinctoria
Propagation is done by seeds and stem cuttings.

Dicliptera tinctoria, more details :

Chemical Content of Dicliptera tinctoria
Alkaloids, saponins, triterpenoids, tannins and flavonoids.
Benefits of Dicliptera tinctoria
Treats coughs, dysentery, diarrhea and bronchitis, wounds. Has antihypertensive and antilipidemic activity.
Simplisia of Dicliptera tinctoria

Another Facts for Dicliptera tinctoria :

Synonym of Dicliptera tinctoria
Justicia bivalvis L.Peristrophe bivalvis (L.) Merr.Peristrophe tinctoria Nees
Habitus of Dicliptera tinctoria
Herb. Annual herb, up to 1 m high
Habitat of Dicliptera tinctoria

• Mainland