Highly valued household remedy with Cajuput Oil Tree

Highly valued household remedy with Cajuput Oil Tree. Cajuput Oil Tree/ Melaleuca leucadendron/ Kayu Putih , a native of the Mollucas, e.g. Pulau Buru (Buru Island) Indonesia, but now cultivated as far north as China. In Indonesia it is cultivated everywhere in the lowland and in mountaineous, even swampy, regions.

Cajuput Oil Tree/ Melaleuca leucadendron/ Kayu Putih is a member of the tribe guava tree ( Myrtaceae ) are used as a source of eucalyptus oil ( cajuput oil). Oil is extracted ( usually distilled with steam ), especially from the leaves and branches. Its name is taken from the trunk color is white.A shrub or tree of Cajuput Oil Tree/ Melaleuca leucadendron with a dirty-white bark and aromatic leaves and fruits which contain cajuput oil (minyak kayu putih), varying in colour from yellowish green to bluish green. The green tint of the oil is due to a minute proportion of copper. Cajuput Oil Tree/ Melaleuca leucadendron/ Kayu Putih and its essential oil are to be distinguished from Eucalyptus alba and its "cajuput oil". produced out of its leaves.

Cajuput oil (minyak kayu putih) is a highly valued household remedy used externally to treat colic, headache, toothache,earache,cramps and stiffness in legs, pains of various types, rheumatism, meteorism, skin diseases, fresh wounds, and burns. Internally a small dose acts as a diaphoretic (some drops mixed with wine or beer). The leaves or the bark (cooked and prepared as poultice with Curcuma longa (Kunyit) is externally used against headache and muscular pain. The bark is used to clean ulcers. The fruit is an appetizer.

Cajuput oil consist chiefly of cineol (identical with eucalyptol or cajuputol), obtained from the crude oil by fractional distillation. Cineol is a liquid smelling like chapor, yielding terpenes. Other reported constituents are terpinol, 1-pinene and aldehydes.

Latin = Melaleuca leucadendron/ Melaleuca minor/ Melaleuca cajuputi
 Indonesian = Gelam/ Baru galang/ Kayu putih
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