30 Types of Medicinal Plants and Their Benefits for Health

On this occasion will discuss the medicinal plants and their properties. As is known beforehand that Indonesia is a country with a tropical climate that has a variety of plants.

Including spice plants that are characteristic of this agricultural country. Since ancient times many types of plants are used to treat external and internal diseases.

Currently, fewer and fewer people are using medicinal plants to treat the disease. They prefer to seek treatment with modern medicines that contain chemicals, some even get treatment abroad.

Even if taking drugs, in the long run, can cause other diseases. Moreover, the usual treatment is currently more expensive, therefore medicines from traditional plants may be used as an alternative to treat your disease,

Medicinal plants and their properties


Types of Medicinal Plants and Their Benefits

In Indonesia, there are many types of medicinal plants spread in various regions. Each region has its own recipe for processing herbs into medicine. But by returning to using natural medicine, it will certainly minimize the side effects of the drugs used. In addition, knowing a variety of medicinal plants that can treat diseases will eliminate your dependence on chemical drugs. Below there are several medicinal plants and properties that are owned to treat diseases.

Starfruit
starfruit

Don't imagine this starfruit has a shape like a starfruit in general. Wuluh starfruit, also known as starfruit vegetable because it is often used as a spice to provide a strong sour taste.

Other functions of starfruit besides being cooking ingredients are for traditional medicine. Starting from the fruit, stems, leaves, and flowers can be used as medicine. Wuluh starfruit is useful for treating bleeding gums, rheumatic drugs, Lembongan drugs, canker sores, rheumatic drugs and can be used as a toothache medication.

Temu Lawak
Lawak Gathering Medicinal Plants

Temulawak is a native Indonesian spice plant that has various properties for health. The part that is often used is part of the root or often also called the rhizome. This part is often processed to be used as a medicine for various diseases.

The benefits of ginger are to treat kidney disorders, facilitate digestion, nourish the heart, and maintain a healthy liver. Actually, there are many other types of diseases that can be cured with these medicinal plants. Especially if its use is combined with other medicinal plants, of course, the benefits will be increasingly felt.

Aloe vera

Benefits of Aloe Vera Plants

Medicines that have a variety of benefits are aloe vera. Yup, you could say that aloe vera as a million plant benefits because there are so many benefits from this plant. In addition to its main function for healthy hair, removing acne, and beauty of this plant can also be used to treat various diseases.


As a medicinal plant Aloe vera is efficacious for treating heart attacks, diabetes, sore throat, constipation, and many other types of diseases that can be treated with this plant. So make sure that your home garden has this one medicinal plant.

Cat Whiskers Medicinal Plants

Cat Whiskers Medicinal Plants

Cat whiskers are no longer competitive in Indonesia. This plant, which has the Latin name Orthosiphon aris status, has long been known as a medicinal plant that has various healing properties. This plant can be used as an ingredient to make herbal concoctions with certain concoctions and doses so that it becomes a very effective drug.

The most famous benefits of this plant are stone urine. This plant will shed stone urine so that it can smooth the urinary tract. Besides this plant is also efficacious for treating rheumatism, gout, cough, colds, diabetes, and hypertension.

Keji Beling and its Benefits

Keji Beling Medicinal Plants

Vile shard plants are very popular among herbal experts. The plants that grow in the yard of this house have various benefits, especially the parts of this plant can almost be used. Vile leaf shard contains many important substances such as phosphorus, sodium, calcium, and potassium. The roots contain polyphenols and flavonoids, while the stem contains saponins and tannins.

The benefits of Keji Beling plant can be used as a medicine for kidney stones, diarrhea, reduce cholesterol, liver, ulcer, and treat diabetes. One of the advantages of knowing the medicinal plants and their properties will make it easier for you to choose the medicine from the illness.


Leaf Distance

Benefits of Daun Jarak

Since ancient times, Jatropha leaves have been used as herbal remedies. No wonder this plant is included in the type of live pharmacy plants. Leaves, fruit, even castor seeds are believed to be able to treat various diseases. No wonder the invaders fought this plant to be brought to their country.

Jatropha leaves have properties to treat itching, bleeding wounds, fungus on the skin, rheumatism, and swelling due to injury. Besides this plant can also be used to treat flatulence in children. It is remarkable that medicinal plants and their properties can be used as alternative medicines.

Beluntas Leaf

Medicinal Plants and Benefits of Beluntas Leaves


This one medicinal plant is already known by many people, but few know the benefits of Beluntas. The nature of plants that have many branches and leaves is often used as a beautiful garden fence.

Beluntas leaves can be used as a powerful herbal medicine to overcome body odor, rheumatic pain, relieve bad breath, treat leucorrhoea, treat rheumatism, flatulence, and relieve low back pain. Hem, there are also many benefits of this one plant.

Sambiloto Medicinal Plants and Their Benefits

Sambiloto plant

Sambiloto is an herbal plant that has been used for a long time to treat various diseases. Plants that have the Latin name  GreenChiretta are from India and Sri Lanka. Currently,y this plant thrives in various tropical regions such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and several countries in the Americas.

Sambiloto leaves can be used as medicine to reduce body heat, facilitate urine, cure stomach aches, and to treat diabetes. In a study of water, the result of bitter leaf decoction can be used to reduce sugar levels comparable to the administration  of glibenclamide suspension .


Dewa Leaf

God Leaves as Medicinal Plants

Have you ever heard of plant leaves of gods? Not a special leaf for gods, but leaf god is one of the living pharmacy plants that are widely used for herbal medicine. This type of plant usually thrives in areas that have an altitude of 200-800 above sea level. The people in Java named this plant as the Sabung Nyowo leaf (the leaf connecting the soul).

Daun continued nyowo, yups like the name given by this plant does have a variety of benefits, one of which is treating chronic diseases. The types of diseases that can be treated with these leaves are cancer, high blood pressure, hemorrhoids, diabetes mellitus, and bleeding. In addition, this plant can also be used to treat bruises, toxin cleaners, and various other benefits.

Grass jelly leaves

Benefits of grass jelly leaves

The last list of medicinal plants and their properties is grass jelly leaves. Of course, you are no stranger to this plant, right? Yes, plants that are often processed into cendol have various health benefits. Grass jelly leaves in general there are 2 types namely green and black, both have a taste that is equally delicious.

The benefits of this medicinal plant are as a medicine for fever, diabetes mellitus medication, gastritis, and treating types of pain. It's amazing isn't it? Maybe this is a medicinal plant that has a delicious taste, hehehe.

Ajeran medicinal plants

Ajeran Leaf Medicinal Plant

Maybe you are not too familiar with this medicinal plant, because it is easy to find plants. But maybe you also won't think that the plant can be used as medicine. Yes, this is because this plant was originally a wild plant that grew a lot around the garden and fence.

Ajeran has the Latin name  Bidens pilosa L is  still a relative with a type of Labiatae plant. In each area these plants have different names, in Java known as ketul, Sunda: Malaysian Ajeran: Shirt buttons etc.

The benefits of the leaves are to reduce fever by boiling and drinking the boiled water. In addition, it can also be used to wash the eyes, how to boil it then wait until the cold boiled water is only used to wash the eyes.

Alang-Alang Root Live Pharmacy

Ajeran Leaf Medicinal Plant

This one plant is no stranger because it is often used as one of the ingredients to make traditional medicine. These plants often become weeds for agricultural crops. That is why many farmers remove it or eliminate it with chemicals.

Even so, the roots of reeds have a lot of health benefits among them are for internal medicine, overcome kidney disease, overcome nosebleeds, urinary stones, vaginal discharge and a myriad of other benefits. You can also combine these plants with other medicinal plants so as to create effective drugs to eliminate the disease.


Vetiver Medicinal Plants

Vetiver Medicinal Plants

This one medicinal plant has been proven to be used to cure various diseases. The name of the vetiver is given because the roots of this plant are commonly used as a source of perfume. The scent is obtained from volatile substances contained in the roots of this plant.


In addition to the roots of the stem and leaves of this plant can also be used as medicine. The content of vetiveron, vetivena acid, vetiverol, and vetiverol ester in this plant is very good for the body. One of the benefits of this plant is to treat rheumatism, rheumatic pain, kidney stones, fever, and can be used to treat bad breath and body odor.

Sweet Root Medicinal Plants

Sweet Root Medicinal Plant

Still, from the type of root plant, this medicinal plant also has many health benefits. Sweet root has the Latin name  Glycyrrhiza Glabra L  has been widely used by ancient people to treat various types of diseases.

Currently, to get this medicinal plant, it still has to be imported from abroad, because in Indonesia no one has cultivated this medicinal plant. From the results of research, sweet roots contain several substances such as  Likuiritin glycosides, Glisirhisin, Umbeliferona, Saponins, Glucose, Asparagine , and Glabrolide . The benefits of this medicinal plant can treat stomach ulcers, high blood pressure, and coughing diseases.

Avocado Medicinal Plants

Avocado Medicinal Plants


If this plant doesn't need to be explained again right? Yes, avocado can be said to be a fruit with a million benefits. This fruit is often used for beauty masks and medicinal ingredients. Aside from being a medicine, avocados are also often made juice drinks with a very tasty taste.

The benefits of avocado include treating diambetes, preventing cancer, reducing cholesterol, heart health, treating heartburn and also as a health drink containing various vitamins.

Leaf Fennel Medicinal Plant

Leaf Fennel Medicinal Plant

For the Javanese people, especially in Jogja, they are certainly familiar with fennel leaves. People living in the area often plant fennel leaves in the yard or behind the house as a family medicine plant or commonly called TOGA.

Aside from being a medicinal plant, fennel leaves are also often used as a spice for cooking spices. Fennel leaves contain lots of nutrients that are good for the body including Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Vitamin E, Anisaldehyde and many others.

The benefits for health can be used to treat anemia, overcome constipation, treat heart disease, prevent cancer, treat diarrhea, launch menstruation, treat eye pain, shortness of breath medication and so on.

Adem Ati Medicinal Plant

Adem Ati Medicinal Plant

The medicinal plant has the name Lati Simplisia Litseae glutinosae Radix . This plant is a tree plant that can grow to a height of 10 meters. Not only the leaves, the skin and roots of this plant can also be used as ingredients for making medicines.

This plant contains various substances such as alkaloids (phenanthrene and aporphine groups), flavonoids, tannins, polyphenols, and essential oils. The benefits of adem ati are to treat various diseases including diabetes, inflammation of the intestine, bleeding wounds and so on.

Gotu Kola Leaf Medicinal Plant

Gotu Kola Leaf Medicinal Plant

The benefits of gotu kola leaves don't know much yet, but this leaf has been widely used as medicine in various worlds. This plant is often found in Southeast Asia and Africa, the habitat of ordinary life on the banks of a quiet river.

Leaves and stems are one of the parts used as medicine. The benefits that can be obtained from this medicinal plant are to heal external wounds, reduce anxiety, as antioxidants, for ingredients of traditional medicine and content.

Medicinal plants for Tempuyung leaves

Medicinal plants for Tempuyung leaves

Tempuyung leaves are herbal plants that grow in the wild. This plant usually grows in areas that are not exposed to direct sunlight. Not only used as traditional medicine, but tempuyung leaves are now also widely extracted to be used as modern medicine.

The most nutritious part of tempuyung is the leaves. Tempuyung leaves taste bitter, but cool. The benefits of this family medicinal plant have many benefits among them to treat boils, stone urine, high blood pressure, obesity, inflammation of the breast, hemorrhoids, high blood pressure, and gout.

Andong leaves have broad leaf characteristics with blackish red carka. This plant has a beautiful leaf shape, no wonder it is widely used as a leaf ornamental plant . Not only has a beautiful leaf shape, but it turns out this plant also has a variety of health benefits.

The benefits of medicinal herbs include the coughing up blood, urine bleeding, menstruation too much, diarrhea or dysentery, overcoming hemorrhoids, drugs caused by venomous animal stings, treating inflammation of the gums.

Ciplukan Traditional Medicinal Plants

Ciplukan medicinal plants

For children born in the 90s, it is certainly no stranger to ciplukan fruit. Yups, this one is a fruit that grows wild and can be obtained for free. Fruit with the Latin name Physalis angulata can easily be found in rice fields or fields.

Today it turns out this fruit is teralal with good benefits for health. Even in one of the fruit shopping centers, it is sold at a price of 500k / kg. This fruit turned out to have properties for medicine for asthma, sore throat, treating diabetes, breast cancer, lung disease and so on.

Medicinal Plants Flower Kenop

Medicinal Plants Flower Kenop

Flower knobs are actually not native flowers of Indonesia, these flowers come from America and Asia. Initially, this plant was only used as an ornamental flower to beautify the garden in front of the house. With bright green leaves and small flowers in purple, this flower is loved by many people.

Aside from being an ornamental plant, flower knobs are also included in traditional medicinal plants. The efficacy of this traditional medicine is useful for treating asthma, inflammation of the eyes, coughing, bad dreams; hot pain, headache, and dysentery.

Cepaka Putih Medicinal Plant

Cempaka Putih Medicinal Plant

Cempaka putih or usually also called kantil is a flower that has a very fragrant aroma. Flowers that have the Latin name  Michelia alba is a typical flower from Central Java. This flower is also often used in various traditional ceremonies.

Not only this white cepaka tanama can also be used as a natural medicinal plant. One of the properties of this medicinal plant is to overcome body and underarm odors, treat vertigo (a headache), overcome sinusitis, treat flatulence, treat a whooping cough, treat vaginal discharge, and cough with phlegm.

Brotowali Medicinal Plants

Brotawali Medicinal Plants

Surely you already know how to do it? Yup, this medicinal plant has often been used as a traditional medicine to cure various diseases. Almost all parts of this plant can be used as medicine starting from the leaves, stems and roots.

This plant is famous for its very bitter taste. The efficacy of brotowali is that it can be used to treat joint rheumatism, rheumatic arthritis, yellow fever, fever, malaria, diabetes, diabetes, as well as external diseases such as bruising, scabies, and wounds.

Leaves Leaves

Medicinal Leaf Leaves

The last traditional Indonesian medicinal plant is cumin leaves. This plant belongs to the type of grass plants that grow wild in the fields or gardens.

Cumin leaves have many health benefits, including treating flatulence, headaches, treating epilepsy, fertilizing breast milk, treating rheumatism, and restoring immunity.

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