Traditional medicine repeller Fever Children
Traditional medicine repeller Fever Children
As a first aid measures, traditional medicine can be counted on to fight fever.
MANY parents have panicked when his son's body temperature above the average or commonly called a fever. As first aid, usually given febrifuge class-based chemicals such as paracetamol, salicylic acid, ibuprofen, and others. Rarely do parents immediately thought of giving traditional medicine.
In fact, traditional medicines derived from medicinal plants is no less repellent efficacy of a fever. In fact, traditional medicine has its advantages, the relatively lower toxicity than chemical drugs. Thus, relatively safe, no side effects even when its use right. You see, the content of medicinal plants is complex and thus can be compared to organic food, a substance that is consumed in order to reconstruct the damaged organ or system. In addition, the price is cheaper.
Three Types of Fever
However, before knowing more about febrifuge plant, it is necessary first to understand the sense fever. Fever in children can be divided into three, namely:
A. Fever due to infection where the temperature can reach over 38 ° C. The causes vary, ie, viral infections (such as flu, chicken pox, measles, SARS, bird flu, dengue, etc.) and bacteria (typhoid fever, sore throat, etc.).
2. Non-infectious fevers, such as cancer, tumor, or the presence of one autoimmune disease (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, etc.).
3. Fever physiologically, such as lack of fluids (dehydration), the air temperature is too hot, and others.
Well, of the three, only the fever caused by infection and non-infectious alone who need a febrifuge. To accelerate the process of heat, in addition to the traditional ingredients of a drunk, can also be given baluran or compress to help.
As for the physiological fever, do not need drugs for fever because it is generally less than 380 ° C. To lower body temperature, just be drinking a lot and grown in well-ventilated room or refrigerated.
Assorted Traditional Medicine Heat Reducer
Here are some choices of traditional heat-lowering drugs that can be tried. Important note, the doses listed on the following formula is the dosage for adults. When you want to be given to children, read the rules and adjust the dose for children by age levels. (See box: Dose Safe for Children.)
A. Lempuyang Emprit (Zingiber amaricans)
Compounds contain essential oils, namely sekuiterpenketon useful to reduce the heat. Commonly used is the rhizome; yellowish-white color and bitter taste.
How: Rinse 10 grams of tubers lempuyang CVD. Grate and add 1/2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Toss with 2 tablespoons (tbsp) cotton flower honey and stir well. Give 3 times a day.
2. Turmeric (Curcuma Longa)
Contains oil, curcumin, and zingiberen turmeron which can be useful as an antibacterial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory (anti-inflammatory). Besides the fever, this mixture also can increase endurance. Commonly used is the rhizome; color orange.
How: Rinse 10 grams of turmeric root. Grate and add 1/2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Add the juice of 1/2 lime fruit. Toss with 2 tablespoons of cotton flower honey and stir well. Divided into 3 parts of honey and turmeric, then give it 3 times a day.
3. Bitter (Andrographis paniculata)
The entire plant can be used. Andrographolide lactones (bitter substances), diterpene, glucosides and flavonoids that may reduce the heat. Even in 1991 had conducted research in Thailand that 6 g per day bitter as effective as paracetamol.
How: Boil 10 grams of dried bitter leaf, 25 g of dried turmeric root (2.5 thumb), and 200 cc of water. Boil until the water boils and lived 100 cc, then strain. Once warm, add 100 cc or mahogany cotton flower honey and stir well. Divided into 3 parts, give it 3 times a day.
4. Gotu kola (Centella asiatica L.)
Plants are also known by the name of this horse's feet grow leaf creeping ground cover. The leaves are green and kidney shaped like a fan. Contains triterpenoids, saponins, hydrocotyline, and vellarine. Beneficial to reduce the heat, revitalizing the body and blood vessels as well as to strengthen the structure of body tissues. Gotu kola also be soothing or cooling, increase energy and appetite.
How: Boil 1 handful of fresh gotu kola with 2 cups water to boil and water to 1 cup. Divided into 3 parts and drink 3 times a day.
5. Curcuma (Curcuma xanthorhiza Roxb.)
Looks like a gathering of white ginger, just different colors of flowers and rhizome. Yellow ginger flowers are white or pale yellow, while meeting with white white red edge. Ginger rhizome orange-brown, while the roots of white told a pale yellow.
Wild Ginger has an active substance germacrene, xanthorrhizol, alpha beta curcumena, and others. Benefits as anti-inflammatory (antiperandangan), antibiotics, and increased production and secretion of bile. Wild Ginger since the first widely used as a febrifuge, stimulate appetite, treat jaundice, diarrhea, ulcers, stomach bloating and fatigue.
How: Rinse 10 grams of ginger rhizome. Grate and add 1/2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Toss with 2 tablespoons of cotton flower honey and stir well. For a third mixture of honey and ginger, then give it 3 times a day.
6. Onion (Allium cepa L.)
Shallots are often used as a spice in the kitchen. Contain essential oils, sikloaliin, metilaliin, kaempferol, quercetin, and floroglusin.
How: Peel the red onions 5. Coarse and add the grated coconut oil to taste, then smeared into the crown and the whole body.
7. Leaves of hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa sinensis)
Apart from hibiscus leaves, you can also take advantage of cottonwood leaves or betel leaves. Hibiscus contain flavonoids, saponins and polyphenols. Cottonwood leaves contain flavonoids, saponins and tannins. Betel leaves contain flavonoids, saponins, polyphenols, and essential oils.
How: Rinse the leaves, pat dry with a clean cloth, reheat briefly over a flame so weak. Knead so weak, spread with coconut oil, kompreskan the stomach and head.
8. Meniran (Phyllanthus niruri L.)
Reaches 1 meter high plants, growing wild, its leaves are round finned compound leaves quite even. All parts of this plant can be used. Contain lignans, flavonoids, alkaloids, triterpenoids, tannins, vitamin C, and others. Useful to reduce heat and increase endurance.
How: Boil 1 handful of fresh meniran with 2 cups water to boil and water to 1 cup. Divided into 3 parts and drink 3 times a day.
9. Young coconut water
Young coconut water contains many minerals, including potassium. At the time of the heat, the body will be spending a lot of sweat to lower body temperature. Well, to replace the sweat that comes out, multiply drinking coconut water.
Dose Safe for Children
The use of medicinal plants with the proper dose will not cause any side effects and safe. The following doses are recommended for children:
Age Dose
Baby 1/8 adult dose
2-5 years 1/4 the adult dose
6-9 years 1/3 the adult dose
10-13 years 1/2 adult dose
MANY parents have panicked when his son's body temperature above the average or commonly called a fever. As first aid, usually given febrifuge class-based chemicals such as paracetamol, salicylic acid, ibuprofen, and others. Rarely do parents immediately thought of giving traditional medicine.
In fact, traditional medicines derived from medicinal plants is no less repellent efficacy of a fever. In fact, traditional medicine has its advantages, the relatively lower toxicity than chemical drugs. Thus, relatively safe, no side effects even when its use right. You see, the content of medicinal plants is complex and thus can be compared to organic food, a substance that is consumed in order to reconstruct the damaged organ or system. In addition, the price is cheaper.
Three Types of Fever
However, before knowing more about febrifuge plant, it is necessary first to understand the sense fever. Fever in children can be divided into three, namely:
A. Fever due to infection where the temperature can reach over 38 ° C. The causes vary, ie, viral infections (such as flu, chicken pox, measles, SARS, bird flu, dengue, etc.) and bacteria (typhoid fever, sore throat, etc.).
2. Non-infectious fevers, such as cancer, tumor, or the presence of one autoimmune disease (rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, etc.).
3. Fever physiologically, such as lack of fluids (dehydration), the air temperature is too hot, and others.
Well, of the three, only the fever caused by infection and non-infectious alone who need a febrifuge. To accelerate the process of heat, in addition to the traditional ingredients of a drunk, can also be given baluran or compress to help.
As for the physiological fever, do not need drugs for fever because it is generally less than 380 ° C. To lower body temperature, just be drinking a lot and grown in well-ventilated room or refrigerated.
Assorted Traditional Medicine Heat Reducer
Here are some choices of traditional heat-lowering drugs that can be tried. Important note, the doses listed on the following formula is the dosage for adults. When you want to be given to children, read the rules and adjust the dose for children by age levels. (See box: Dose Safe for Children.)
A. Lempuyang Emprit (Zingiber amaricans)
Compounds contain essential oils, namely sekuiterpenketon useful to reduce the heat. Commonly used is the rhizome; yellowish-white color and bitter taste.
How: Rinse 10 grams of tubers lempuyang CVD. Grate and add 1/2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Toss with 2 tablespoons (tbsp) cotton flower honey and stir well. Give 3 times a day.
2. Turmeric (Curcuma Longa)
Contains oil, curcumin, and zingiberen turmeron which can be useful as an antibacterial, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory (anti-inflammatory). Besides the fever, this mixture also can increase endurance. Commonly used is the rhizome; color orange.
How: Rinse 10 grams of turmeric root. Grate and add 1/2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Add the juice of 1/2 lime fruit. Toss with 2 tablespoons of cotton flower honey and stir well. Divided into 3 parts of honey and turmeric, then give it 3 times a day.
3. Bitter (Andrographis paniculata)
The entire plant can be used. Andrographolide lactones (bitter substances), diterpene, glucosides and flavonoids that may reduce the heat. Even in 1991 had conducted research in Thailand that 6 g per day bitter as effective as paracetamol.
How: Boil 10 grams of dried bitter leaf, 25 g of dried turmeric root (2.5 thumb), and 200 cc of water. Boil until the water boils and lived 100 cc, then strain. Once warm, add 100 cc or mahogany cotton flower honey and stir well. Divided into 3 parts, give it 3 times a day.
4. Gotu kola (Centella asiatica L.)
Plants are also known by the name of this horse's feet grow leaf creeping ground cover. The leaves are green and kidney shaped like a fan. Contains triterpenoids, saponins, hydrocotyline, and vellarine. Beneficial to reduce the heat, revitalizing the body and blood vessels as well as to strengthen the structure of body tissues. Gotu kola also be soothing or cooling, increase energy and appetite.
How: Boil 1 handful of fresh gotu kola with 2 cups water to boil and water to 1 cup. Divided into 3 parts and drink 3 times a day.
5. Curcuma (Curcuma xanthorhiza Roxb.)
Looks like a gathering of white ginger, just different colors of flowers and rhizome. Yellow ginger flowers are white or pale yellow, while meeting with white white red edge. Ginger rhizome orange-brown, while the roots of white told a pale yellow.
Wild Ginger has an active substance germacrene, xanthorrhizol, alpha beta curcumena, and others. Benefits as anti-inflammatory (antiperandangan), antibiotics, and increased production and secretion of bile. Wild Ginger since the first widely used as a febrifuge, stimulate appetite, treat jaundice, diarrhea, ulcers, stomach bloating and fatigue.
How: Rinse 10 grams of ginger rhizome. Grate and add 1/2 cup hot water and stir well. Once cool, squeeze, take the juice. Toss with 2 tablespoons of cotton flower honey and stir well. For a third mixture of honey and ginger, then give it 3 times a day.
6. Onion (Allium cepa L.)
Shallots are often used as a spice in the kitchen. Contain essential oils, sikloaliin, metilaliin, kaempferol, quercetin, and floroglusin.
How: Peel the red onions 5. Coarse and add the grated coconut oil to taste, then smeared into the crown and the whole body.
7. Leaves of hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa sinensis)
Apart from hibiscus leaves, you can also take advantage of cottonwood leaves or betel leaves. Hibiscus contain flavonoids, saponins and polyphenols. Cottonwood leaves contain flavonoids, saponins and tannins. Betel leaves contain flavonoids, saponins, polyphenols, and essential oils.
How: Rinse the leaves, pat dry with a clean cloth, reheat briefly over a flame so weak. Knead so weak, spread with coconut oil, kompreskan the stomach and head.
8. Meniran (Phyllanthus niruri L.)
Reaches 1 meter high plants, growing wild, its leaves are round finned compound leaves quite even. All parts of this plant can be used. Contain lignans, flavonoids, alkaloids, triterpenoids, tannins, vitamin C, and others. Useful to reduce heat and increase endurance.
How: Boil 1 handful of fresh meniran with 2 cups water to boil and water to 1 cup. Divided into 3 parts and drink 3 times a day.
9. Young coconut water
Young coconut water contains many minerals, including potassium. At the time of the heat, the body will be spending a lot of sweat to lower body temperature. Well, to replace the sweat that comes out, multiply drinking coconut water.
Dose Safe for Children
The use of medicinal plants with the proper dose will not cause any side effects and safe. The following doses are recommended for children:
Age Dose
Baby 1/8 adult dose
2-5 years 1/4 the adult dose
6-9 years 1/3 the adult dose
10-13 years 1/2 adult dose
14-16 years 3/4 adult dose
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