Traditional Herbs from Cleome houtteana

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Take enough four mamang leaves, wash them until clean.
Crush them until they become a paste.
Put the leaf paste on the wound or bruise.

What is Cleome houtteana Looks like??

Parts of Cleome houtteana that could be used

Leaves
Flowers
All Parts of the Plant

Cleome houtteana Distribution

Mamang four come from South America (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, SE Brazil). Mamang Empat is also known as spider flower. The flowers are in beautifully arranged bunches and are often used as ornamental plants for fences, gardens and indoor plants. Mamang Empat is not only unique and beautiful, so it can be used as an ornamental plant at home. However, this plant can also be used as a traditional natural medicine
Agroecology of Cleome houtteana
Plants prefer sunny situations (full sun) or partial shade (semi shade) in fresh to damp soil. The substrate should be sandy sandy soil or fertile sandy loam. Has good soil drainage. The plant tolerates temperatures only above at least 1 °C and is drought tolerant.
Morphology of Cleome houtteana

Stem erect, to 1.5 m, usually simple, densely glandular hairy and with some cobweb pubescence on top, with spiny stipules at the base of each petiole.
Leaves alternate/alternating, petiolate, palmately 5 -7 compound. Stipules with relatively sturdy golden brown spines 1-4 mm long. Leaf stalks 6-15 cm long, adaxially grooved, hairy and glandular 3-10 cm, 4 cm wide, oval to elliptical, sharp to pointed, tapering at the base, thoroughly or shallowly toothed, upper surface glandular pubescent, lower surface sparsely pubescent and with spines along the midrib up to 4 mm long.
," Inflorescences in dense terminal racemes up to 35 cm long. Flower stalks 4-6 cm long, densely glandular, elongated on fruit. Bracts 1-4 cm long, wide 0.5-2.0 cm, simple, short-stemmed to almost stemless, ovate, heart-shaped, tapering to a pointed tip, densely glandular, with spines at base.
Flowers\u00a0sepals basically fused, 6- long 7 mm, narrow lanceolate, reflexed but with an ascending tip, dense glands and sometimes also sparsely hairy. Petals 4, all oriented to one side of the flower, similar size and shape, 18-28 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, with basal claw 6-12 mm long, pink to purple, rarely white. The glandular disc is fleshy, cone-shaped, 1-3 mm long. Stamens with filaments 3-4 cm long, anthers 7-9 mm long, linear. The gynophore is relatively short when flowering (0.5-0.9 cm) but elongates rapidly as the fruit ripens to a length of 3-8 cm. Stamens 6, erect to spreading. Filaments 1 cm long, glabrous, pink. Anthers 1 cm long, yellow-orange in color. Ovary green, 4 mm long, glabrous.
Fruit\u00a0capsule 2-7 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, linear, 2-valves, with persistent stigma, usually slightly narrowed between the seeds, glabrous.
Many seeds, 1.6-2.0 mm in diameter, the surface appears wrinkled or warty, dark brown with lighter colored warts and faint concentric lines. Parietal placenta.

Cultivation of Cleome houtteana

Plant propagation via seed.
Pruning side shoots for tall, slender plants, remove central shoots when the plant is 30 cm tall for a shorter, bushier form. Remove spent flowers to prolong flowering.

Cleome houtteana, more details :

Chemical Content of Cleome houtteana
3-(2''-(6'''-caffeoyl-β-glucopyranosyl)-6''-(E-p-coumaroyl)-β-glucopyranoside)-5-β glucopyranoside,� cyaniding 3-(2''-(6'''-E-sinapoyl-β-glucopyranosyl)-6''-(E-p-coumaroyl)-β-glucopyranoside)-5-β-glucopyranoside,cyanidin 3-(2'' -(6'''-feroyl-β-glucopyranosyl)-6''- (E-p-coumaroyl)-β-glucopyranoside)-5-β-glucopyranoside, pelargonidin 3-(2''-(6'''-E-sinapoyl-β glucopyranosyl)-6''-(E-p-coumaroyl)-β -glucopyranoside)-5-β-glucopyranoside,� pelargonidin 3-(2''-(6'''-E-p-coumaroyl-β-glucopyranosyl)-6''-(E-p-coumaroyl)-β-glucopyranoside)-5-β-glucopyranoside.
Benefits of Cleome houtteana
One of the benefits of Mamang Empat is said to be able to treat wounds or bruises and treat rheumatism.
Simplisia of Cleome houtteana

Another Facts for Cleome houtteana :

Synonym of Cleome houtteana
Cleome hassleriana Chodat, Tarenaya hassleriana (Chodat) Iltis, Tarenaya hassleriana var. parviflora Verloove & Lambinon
Habitus of Cleome houtteana
Herb. Annual herb, 0.9-1.5 m high
Habitat of Cleome houtteana