Kluwih (Artocarpus altilis)

Kluwih

Scientific Name
Artocarpus altilis (Park.) FSB.
Region Name
Malays: gomu
Aceh: Kulu
Batak: Kulur
Minangkabau: Kalawi
Lampung: Kaluwih
Sundanese: Kelewih
Java: Kluwih
Madura: drawstring
Bali: Kalewih
Bima: Kolo
East: Lakuf
Makassar: Gamasi
Selayar: Kuloro
Bugis: Ulo
Seram: Limes, Unas!
Halmahera: Dolai
Botany
Synonyms: Artocarpus communis J.R. & G.A. incisa (Thunb.) L.f.
Classification
Division: Spermatophyta
Sub Division: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Nation: Rosales
Tribe: Moraceae
Surname: Artocarpus
Type: Artocarpus altilisis (Park.) FSB.
Characteristics
Habitus: Tree, 10-25 m. high
Trunk: Upright, rounded, branching simpodial, sticky, rough surface, brown.
Leaves: Single, turns, oval, pointed tip, base tapering, edge bertoreh, 50-70 cm long, 25-50 cm wide, pinnate pertulangan, thick, rough surfaces, green.
Flowers: Single, married one, in the armpit leaves, male flowers cylindrical, 10-20 cm long, yellow, round female flowers, 2-5 cm in diameter, green.
Fruit: Artificial compound, rounded, 10-20 cm diameter, spiny soft, green.
Beans: kidney shape, 3-5 cm long, black.
Roots: steep, chocolate.
Chemical Ingredients
Kluwih flowers and leaves contain saponins, polyphenols and tannins, while the bark contains flavonoida.
Benefits
Male flowers efficacious as a medicine kluwih toothache and the leaves for medicine skin disease.

For toothache medicine used 1 male flowers kluwih fruit, burnt to charcoal and crushed rnenjadi until smooth. The results of the collision is applied to the gums toothache.