Desmodium triquetrum
(Desmodium triquetrum [L.] D.C.)

Tribe: Papilionaceae (Leguminosae)
Crude Name: Desmodii triquetri Herba.

Description
Desmodium triquetrum seat can be found from the lowlands to 1,500 m above sea level. grow wild in the open with sufficient sunlight or a little shade, and not so dry.
Chronic shrub, grows erect or climbing, 0,5-3 m high, with a wooden leg. Stem round, segmented, rough surface, branching simpodial, approximately 2 cm in diameter, brown. Single leaves, alternate, leafy leverage, broad winged petiole. Lancet leaf blade, pointed tip, base flat, flat edge, bone pinnate, 10-20 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, young brown, after the old green. Compound interest, panicle, out of the tip of the stem, the crown of the butterfly-shaped purplish-white color, smooth-haired, embedded base. Fruit pods, 2,5-3,5 cm in length. 4-6 mm wide, hairy, containing 4-8 seeds, young green, after the old brown. Small beans, kidney shape, the color brown. Propagated by seed.

Nature and Usefulness
This seems a bit bitter herbs, cool. Efficacious as a reliever fever (antipyretics), anti-inflammatory (anti-inflammatory), killer parasites (parasitisid), increased appetite (stomakik), facilitator urine (diuretic).

Chemical content
This plant's leaves contain tannins, alkaloids hipaforin, trigonelin, tanning materials, silicate acid, and K2O. Fruit contain saponin sitting, and flavonoida, while the roots contain saponin, and tannin flavonoida.

How to use
Prepare the herb leaves as much as 15-60 g sat, then boiled and drink.
External use is used to compress hemorrhoids, abscess, back pain, and aches in the legs with finely milled herb leaves.