Ipomoea Pescaprae
(Ipomoea Pes-caprae [L.] Sweet)

Tribe: Convolvulaceae
Simplisia Name: Herba Pescaprae Ipomoeae.

Description
Ipomoea pescaprae grows wild in coastal areas or on rocky soil and contain sand. These plants can sometimes cover the entire beach with tough stems, long, and thick leaves.
Trunked wet, slippery, clay, creeping or crawling on the ground, green stem color brown. single leaf, where the scattered, 2-3 cm long stemmed, white sap will come out when broken. Leaf blade rounded elongated, thick, smooth shiny, hairless, tip and base sharing, green. Compound interest, such as a funnel-shaped, violet-colored.

Nature and Usefulness
Slightly spicy taste bitter herbs, are warm. Efficacious anti-inflammatory, anti rheumatism, and eliminate swelling.

Chemical content
Leaves contain behenic acid, melissic acid, myristic acid, eugenol, 4-vinyl guaiacol. Dried leaves contain a substance called antistin allergy.

Portion used
All parts of plant efficacious drugs.

How to Use
For drugs taken, boiled 30-60 g of fresh herbs or dried herbs 15-30 g.
For external use, wash fresh herbs, then milled until smooth. Spread on a sore spot. Can also flush the affected part.

Note
Pregnant women are forbidden to drink boiled sample, which was already on this.