Sugar palm (Aren)

(Arenga pinnata ( Wurmb ) Merr)

Synonym : Arenga sacchrifera Labill.

Familia : Arecaceae ( Palmae).

Description :
Not thorny patched. High bar to 25 m and diameter 65 cm, some of bars that is enough is length is having leaf, at underside there is leaf frond stepping aside it tears ravelled to become black fiber. Leaf handle to 1,5 m, length leaf blade until 5 m.
Leaflet to 145 times 7 cm, underside there are wax;candle layer. Having Berumah one, female cob with length male cob 2,5 m. Cob branchs once; long lateral 1,5 m. Couple stam inate flower, long 12-15 mm; stamen many. Independent pistillate flower, ball integer approximant; bear ovary 3, with 3 stigma. Bullet integer bacca, with tip of pesok into, diameter 4 cm, bear 3, seed 3. All Java (Indonesia), in forest or planted; 1-1400 m.

Note: Also famous by the name of old of Arenga saccharifera Labill. We can say all part of crops is used; root earns good for matting material and beat severely, bar which dibelah for roof-gutter ( aqueduct), sugar palm wood earns good for usuk house framework like the one commonly use at traditional building, crate for vegetables eats rice, vena to sweep and kranjang, young leaf to change cigarette paper, frond fiber for fibre of palmtree string, for pass, crate broom, brush, terrace earns is useful as;core is made "sago". From stam inate flower cob is tapped [by] sugary dilution, where then is made sugar ( Java sugar), if it is yeast yields water sago, pageant or vinegar; seed earns is useful as candy and eaten ( kolang-kaling (the fruit of sugar palm) ).

Part applied for palm wine (Toddy), ( result of fermentation from interest water) and root.

Composition :

TODDY: Sugar and fixed oil.

Curable Disease :

Diuretic SPECIAL QUALITY, Sprue, Constipation, Skin Rash ( root), Calculus ( root)

INGREDIENT AND MEASURING:

Calculus:

Ingredient:

Sugar palm Root 2 gram
Keji beling leaf 3 gram
Seagegrass Root 3 gram
Meniran herb 3 gram
Water 20 ml

Way of making: Made infusion.
Way of usage: Drinked 1 times one day, 100 ml.

Duration of treatment:

Repeated during 14 days or until stone exit kidney. Therapy is stopped by after stone exit in the form of stone, sand, or prilled. Hereinafter drinks decoction of kumis kucing leaf and meniran herb, in the place of tea water.

Colic and Sprue:

Palm wine (toddy) drinkable like drinking pickmeup.