Melaleuca Leucadendron as Antiseptic and Warm Your BOdy

The Melaleuca leucadendron or commonly known as Eucalyptus plant is a member of the family Myrtaceae. This plant usually grows with lush forests and in areas with hot. This plant is famous for its white wood oil content of nutritious so often used as drugs especially when cold because of its warm the body.

This plant can be found from the lowlands up to 400 m. Can be grown near the beach behind the mangrove forest, in the marshy ground or forming a small forest on the ground is wet, or dry up areas that experienced the shocks of the wind.

This plant has a high tree structure with the size of 10-30 m, the skin is layered, white with grayish white skin surface peeling irregular. Small tree trunks, with branching that hang down.

The content and benefits: its leaves contain essential oil, cineol, melaleucin and fruit contain a tannin derivative. Diaphoretic, eliminating pain, kill germs, removing the phlegm, and anti seizure.

Uses Of Eucalyptus

Flatulence
1 teaspoon white wood oil, ½ glass water cave, stirred. Drink at once
Wrinkles on the skin of the abdomen (for women after giving birth)
20 drops eucalyptus oil, 1 teaspoon lime betel, and 1 teaspoon lemon juice, stirred. Apply on the belly every day for several weeks.

Cough
1 teaspoon oil of eucalyptus, then grate ¼ seed nutmeg, juice of ½ lime, mixed so one. Rub it on his back and chest injuries. Do it 2 x a day, for 3 days.

Fever In children
Juice 2-3 lime juice, 2 tablespoons of coconut oil, 3 drops of oil of eucalyptus, and 3 garlic cloves crushed red smooth, mixed so one. Apply the herb into the whole body patients, especially the wrist, legs, stomach, and armpits. Wrap your body with a blanket
to sweat out.

Flu
2 teaspoons of oil of eucalyptus, 3 teaspoons of coconut oil, 3 tablespoons lime juice, mixed so one. Rub this herb on the neck, chest, and back 2 x a day.

Seizures (in infants)
Rub oil of eucalyptus on the nose and on the belly of the child. Do 1 x a day as needed.