Pineapple
Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.

Tribe: Bromeliaceae.
Simplisia Name: Fructus Ananas (pineapple).

Description
Pineapples originated from Brazil. In Indonesia, pineapples planted in gardens, yards, and other places that get enough sun at an altitude of 1-1300 m above sea level. Pineapples are fruits that are always available throughout the year.
Annual or biennial herb, 50-150 cm tall, shoots have crept in the base. Leaves gathered in roset roots and at the base which widens into a midrib. Leaf blade sword forms, clay, thick, 80-120 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, pointy end resembling thorns, barbed outboard edges and curved upward, the underside of the scaly white, green or reddish green. Compound interest, location of terminals and long-stemmed. Fruit compound, elliptical, fleshy, green, yellow when ripe. Pineapple fruit tastes good, acid to sweet. Small seeds, is often not so. The leaves can be made of fibrous yarn or rope. These fruit trees can be propagated by crown, bud stems, leaves or axillary bud.

Nature and Usefulness
Ripe fruits are cold, nutritious reduces excessive release of stomach acid, helps the digestion of food in the stomach, anti-inflammatory, facilitator urine (diuretic), clean up of dead skin tissue (skin surgical debridement), disrupt the growth of cancer cells, inhibits thrombocyte clotting (platelet aggregation), and has fibrinolytic activity.
Young fruit taste sour, nutritious boost digestive enzymes, anthelmintic, diuretic, menstrual facilitator, abortivum, facilitator sputum (mukolitik), and laxatives.

Chemical content
Fruit contains vitamins (A and C), calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, sodium, potassium, dektrosa, sucrose (sugar cane), and the enzyme bromelain. Bromelain efficacious anti-inflammatory, helps soften the food in the stomach, disrupting the growth of cancer cells, inhibits platelet aggression, and has fibrinolytic activity. Fiber content may facilitate defecation in patients with constipation (constipation).
Calcium oxalate and leaves contain pectic substances.

Portion used
Parts used are the fruit and leaves.

How to Use
For drugs taken, jus1 / 2 -2 or pineapple medium-size can also be shredded, and then drunk.
For use outside medicine, peeled pineapple, and grated. Spread on a sore body parts, such as cleaning dead tissue in burns, dandruff, ulcers, ulceration, and inflammation of the skin.

Note
• pregnant women are prohibited from drinking pineapple juice of the young.
• pineapple fruit in the gastrointestinal tract is fermented into alcohol that can cause a recurrence of rheumatic gout.
• people with diabetes are encouraged to limit the consumption of sugar pineapple because the ripe fruit is high enough.