Medicinal Plants | Cats Whisker

Cat's whiskers is a medicinal plant of wet trunked plants upright. This plant is known by various terms such as: kidney tea plants / java tea (UK), giri-giri angry (Sumatra), remujung (Central Java and East Java) and songot koneng (Madura). Plants derived from the cat's whiskers tropical Africa, then spread to Asia and Australia.

Local name: cat's whiskers (Malay - Sumatra), cat's whiskers (Sunda), remujung (Java), a salaseyan, songkot koceng (Madura). Whiskers cat species found in Java is O. aristatus, O.thymiflorus, O. petiolaris and O. tementosus var. glabratus. Clone a cat's whiskers are grown in Indonesia is white and purple flowering clones.

Leaves wet and dry cat whiskers beneficial use as medicine. In Indonesia, the dried leaves used (simplicia) as drugs that facilitate the expenditure of urine (diuretic) while in India to treat arthritis. Public use cat's whiskers as a traditional medicine as an effort to cure a cough rheumatism, colds and constipation. Besides, the leaves of this plant are also useful untu treatment of kidney inflammation, kidney stones, diabetes, albuminuria, and the disease syphilis.