Kismis (Muehlenbeckia platyclada)

Scientific Name
Muehlenbeckia platyclada (F.v. Muell.) Meissn.
Region Name
Sundanese: Raisins
Java: Enceng-Enceng
Botany
Synonym: Homalocladium platycladum (Fv Muell.) Bailey
Classification
Division: Spermatophyta
Sub Division: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Nation: Polygonales
Tribe: Polygonaceae
Surname: Muehlenbeckia
Type: Muehlenbeckia platyclada (Fv Muell.) Meissn.
Characteristics
Habitus: Trees, an annual, high ± 10 m.
Trunk: woody, upright, rounded, branching simpodial, chocolate.
Leaves: Single, turns, lancet, ± 7.5 cm long, ± 0.75 cm wide, flat edge, a pointed tip and base, parallel pertulangan, green.
Flower: Compound, form reefs, androgynous, in the armpit leaves, stems round, many stamens, yellow, single pistil, white, single petals, bowl shape, green, purple oval crown.
Fruit: Buni, rounded, ± 0.5 cm in diameter, green.
Seed: Small, kidney shape, brown.
Roots: steep, brownish white.
Chemical Ingredients
Fruit and leaves contain saponin raisins, flavonoida and polyphenols.
Benefits
Fruit and raisins sprue efficacious as a medicine, the sap to remove warts (bumps on the skin).
Sprue drug used to ± 30 grams of fresh fruit raisins, washed, ground up and mashed 2 cups brewed with hot boiled water, after a lukewarm filtered. Distillate used for mouthwash.