Benefits of plant Passengers (Ketumpang)

Passenger Plants or Songgo Heaven whose scientific name Tridax procumbens is a kind of weed that often grows among the grass in our yard or grows wild on the side of the road, perhaps you've seen but not yet known. In English is called Tridax Daisy and in Japanese is called Kotobukigiku.

This plant is proven efficacious analgesic pain relievers and anti-inflammatory anti-inflammatory. The characteristic of this plant is the creeping plant, the flowers are small size with long hairy flower stalks and the leaves are benbentuk like jagged spears and hairy leaf surfaces as well.

Songgolangit leaves can be used to cure diarrhea, dysentery, and prevent hair loss. Benefits of songgolangit is terkenala able to relieve pain, stiffness, and swelling in the joints due to rheumatism, lowering uric acid levels, improve liver and kidney function metabolism, and increase body stamina. Leaf extract can also lower blood pressure and heart rate, treat hypertension. In addition it has microbial effects against Gram positive and Gram negative bacteria and can stimulate wound healing.

The excellence of songgolangit is non-toxic, safe for people with liver and kidney disorders, rich in minerals such as potassium, magnesium, and calcium which are good for the body.
The content of active substances in the plant songgolangit namely: flavonoid tannins, saponin tannins, and flavonoids saponins. Tannin flavonoids are soothing and relieve rheumatic pain in the bones and waist. Saponin tannins act as anti-inflammatory, antibiotics, urine laxative, pain reliever, and uric acid-lowering, and saponin flavonoids are analgesic.