Flower Shoes
(Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L.)

Tribe: Malvaceae
Simplisia name : Hibisci Folium rosa-sinensis (hibiscus leaves), Hibisci rosa-sinensis Flos (hibiscus flower)

Description
Hibiscus planted as an ornamental plant or hedge for colorful flowers. These plants can be found from the lowlands to the mountains.
Hibiscus grow up, 1-4 m tall, branching many. Leaves single, long-stemmed with 1-3,7 cm, and the location of turns. Blade oval leaves, pointed tip, base pointed, jagged edge of the harsh, bone-finger leaves shortly, 3,5-9,5 cm long, and green. Supporting leaf-shaped line, a single flower, leaf out of the armpits, straight or slightly hanging. With her flower segments, there are red, dice, orange, yellow, white, and so on.
Flowers can be eaten raw or after steaming. Flowers are often used to dye cloth, food (jelly, dried fruit), mascara, or rubbed shiny shoes that so-called hibiscus. Propagation by cuttings.

The Nature and Benefits
Hibiscus flowers taste sweet, neutral, astringen. Potent anti-inflammatory, antiviral, reliever fever (antipyretic), Facilitate urine (diuretic), normalize the menstrual cycle, stop the bleeding, and Facilitate mucus (expectorant).

Chemical Ingredients
Flowers contain cynidin-diglucoside, hibisetin, bitter substances, and mucus. leaves contain taraxeryl acetate, calcium oxalate, peroxidase, fats, and proteins.

Part used
Plant part used as medicine is the flower and leaves, either with the use of fresh or dried.

How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled dried flowers or 3-9 g 15-30 g of fresh flowers, or leaves 15-30 g.
For external use only, minced fresh leaves until smooth. Apply on the affected part, such as ulcers, anses, purulent dermatitis (piodermi), inflammatory breast (matitis), atu tract inflammation of lymph nodes (lymphadenitis), interest in fine grinding can be used to cover parts of the body scalded, mumps and tumors.