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Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Subfamily:
Asteroideae
Tribe: Inuleae
Genus:
Blumea
Species:
B. balsamifera
Binomial name
Blumea balsamifera
(L.) DC.
Blumea balsamifera is a flowering plant belonging to the Blumea genus, Asteraceae
family.
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Description
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Description[edit]
In the Philippines, where it is most commonly known as sambong, Blumea
balsamifera is used in traditional herbal medicine for the common cold and as a
diuretic.[1][2][3] It is also used for infected wounds, respiratory infections, and
stomach pains in Thai and Chinese folk medicine.[4]
The genus Blumea is found in the tropical and sub-tropical zones of Asia, especially
the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Blumea balsamifera is one of its
species that is used in Southeast Asia. A weed, this plant is a ruderal species that
often grows on disturbed land,[1] and in grasslands.[3] It has been described
physically as:
Softly hairy, half woody, strongly aromatic shrub, 1-4 meters (m) high. Simple,
alternate, broadly elongated leaves, 7-20 cm long, with toothed margin and
appendaged or divided base. Loose yellow flower head scattered along muchbranched leafy panicles. Two types of discoid flowers: peripheral ones tiny, more
numerous, with tubular corolla; central flowers few, large with campanulate corolla.
Anther cells tailed at base. Fruit (achene) dry, 1-seeded, 10-ribbed, hairy at top.
No claim has been made by any responsible practitioner that it would cure the
common cold or kidney disease, and it has "No Approved Therapeutic Claims".
Rather the only legitimate claim is that it relieves symptoms.[2][3]
The active ingredients exist in the volatile oil, made from the leaves of the
sambong, which have mostly camphor and limonene, but also has traces of borneol,
saponin, sesquiterpene, and tannin.[1][3]
Besides its medicinal uses, it may also be used as a decorative dry plant.
See also[edit]
Bitter melon
Chinese food therapy
Mae Nak
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Sambong listing at Stuart X Change list of Medicinal
plants. Accessed December 25, 2009.
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