Kremah (Alternanthera sessilis)

Kremah
Scientific Name
Alternanthera sessilis R. Br.
Region Name
Lampung : Juruk demah
Batak: Ormak
Malays: Sayor shrimp
Sundanese: Tolot soyah
Java: Kremah
Botany
Synonyms: Alternanthera nodiflora R. Br
Classification
Division: Spermatophyta
Sub Division: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Nation: Caryophylales
Tribe: Amaranthaceae
Surname: Alternanthera
Type: Altemanthera sessilis R. Br.
Characteristics
Habitus: bush, creeping, ± 30 cm long.
Trunk: compound, opposite, oval, pointed tip and the base, ± 2 cm long, ± 5 mm wide, pinnate pertulangan, green.
Leaf: Round, massive, beruas-segment, yellow-green.
Interest: Compound, grain shape, the armpit leaves and stem end, stem cylindrical, length + 5 mm, light green, five stamens, stem juice bowl shape, the crown of feathers, 2-3 mm long, greenish white.
Fruit: Box, small, brown.
Seed: Round, black.
Roots: steep, brownish white.
Benefits
Stems with leaves as a drug efficacious kremah abdominal colic, dysentery and headache medicine.
For bowel drug dipakat + 10 grams of fresh leaf stems with kremah, washed, boiled with 1 cup water for 15 minutes, after cold filtered. Distillate taken at once.