Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum

Scientific Name

Chrysanthemum indicum L.

Region Name

Java: Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum

Botany

Synonym: Pyrethrum indicum Cass.

Classification

Division: Spermatophyta

Sub Division: Angiospermae

Class: Dicotyledoneae

Nation: Asterales

Tribe: Asteraceae

Surname: Chrysanthemum

Type: Chrysanthemum indicum L.

Characteristics

Habitus: Herbaceous plant, height 0,5-1 m.

Trunk: Upright, rounded, slightly branching, rough surfaces, green.

Leaves: Single, turns, oval, pointed tip, base rounded, the edge bertoreh, 7-13 cm long, 3-6 cm wide pertulangan pinnate, thick, rough surfaces, green.

Interest: Compound, cup shape, in the armpits or on the edge of the leaf stem, 3-5 cm in diameter, the petals form a cup, pointed toes, green, stamens and pistils soft, gathered in the center of the flower, oval crown, loose, long, 3 -- 8 mm, yellow.

Fruit: Oval, small, membrane-covered fruit, young black and white after dark.

Seed: Oval, small, black.

Roots: steep, white.

Chemical Ingredients

Chrysanthemum leaves and flowers contain saponins, in addition alkaloida and leaves contain tannin, the flowers were also contain essential oils.

Benefits

Chrysanthemum flowers as a drug efficacious pain and swelling in the eye to drug injury.

For drugs used eye swollen + 10 grams of chrysanthemums, washed and boiled in 3 cups water to boiling and let cool until lukewarm. Water boiling results used to soak or compress the sore eyes.