Gynurae Pseudochinae
(Gynura pseudochina DC.var.hispida Thv.)

Tribe: Asteraceae
Simplisia Name: Gynurae Pseudochinae Radix (root of the gods feel leaf), Gynurae pseudochinae Folium (leaf of the red god).

Description
Red god leaves generally planted in the garden as a medicinal plant. Like the god leaves, red leaves are also easy god propagated by cuttings. Rapid growth into many.
Red god leaves grow upright or lying on the base and much branched. Part stems soft, watery, and grooved lengthwise. single leaves, stemmed, and thinly fleshy. Strand of elongated oval leaves. Tip blunt, base tapering, bone pinnate, reddish brown, the lower part of the younger colored, thin-haired, 6-30 cm long and 2,5-8 cm wide. old leaves share very deep. Hump-shaped compound interest, out of the end of the stem, and dark yellow. Large roots form tubers.

The Nature and Benefits
Tuber efficacious antipyretic, stopping bleeding (hemostatis), anti-inflammatory and antiviral.

Part used
Part used as medicine is tubers and leaves.

How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled fresh tubers 6-9 g or 10-15 g fresh herbs
For external use only, minced fresh tubers. Spread on the inflamed skin due to herpes simplex, herpes zooster, or burns.