Benefits and Efficacy of Onion Plants / Scallions (Allium Fistulosum L.)

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Onion Plant (Allium Fistulosum L.)

Description of Onion Plants

The leek plant is a seasonal plant that we often encounter around us. This leek plant is usually grown in rice fields. The Latin name of the leek plant is Allium Fistulosum L. While in English other names of the leek plant is bunching onion, green onion, Japanese bunching onion, scallion, spring onion, and Welsh onion. According to history, the origin of this leek plant comes from Asia, China. The distribution of this leek plant is in Asia, America, Africa, Europe. The physical characteristic of this leek plant is that it has small elongated round leaves with a sharp tip with a small rhizome. This leek plant has a distinctive smell. This leek plant is very similar to leek but has a smaller size. The function and use of leek plants for some people in Indonesia and the world such as China, Korea, Japan, and other countries is used as a cooking ingredient because this leek plant has a distinctive smell and has a delicious taste. But what we don't know is that this leek plant can also be used as a natural herbal medicine for leek plants to treat various diseases that exist in our bodies.

Name of the area of ​​the scallion plant

Indonesian: Onions

Java: Godong Bawang, Oncang Oncang, Uncang onion, Chinese Onion, English Onion, Kapok

Sundanese: Onion

Sumatra: Double Onion, Dasun Tungga

Bali: Jasun Pinge

Sulawesi: Onion Goros

 

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Classification of Onion Plants

Kingdom: Plantae

Subkingdom: Tracheobionta

Superdivision: Spermatophyta

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: Liliidae

Order: Liliales

Family: Liliaceae

Genus: Allium

Species: Allium fistulosum L.

Anatomy and Morphology of Onion Plants

The leek plant is one type of plant that comes from the onion plant genus (Allium). This leek plant is an annual plant with a size of about 60-70. The stem of the leek plant is a pseudo-stem, grooved, has no branches. The rhizome of the leek plant on some lateral plants is sometimes also flat. The leaf of this leek plant is a single leaf elongated round, hollow like a straw, parallel leaf veins. The flesh of the leek plant is thin and green. The flowers of the leek plant are compound with elongated cylindrical stalks with holes, the petals are funnel-shaped. The fruit of the leek plant is oval in shape and has a size of about 5 mm. Seeds of small leek plants are white and flat when ripe will be black measuring about 3-4 mm × 2-2.5 mm. Cultivation of this leek plant reproduces by means of seeds. The habitat of leek plants in the tropics can grow well at an altitude of between 1,000 - 2,000 meters. High temperatures promote tuber formation, but flower formation and seed production are only possible where bulbs are subjected to low temperatures. In the tropics, flower and seed formation will therefore only occur at higher elevations. The leek plant lives in areas with annual daytime temperatures in the range of 12-25 ° C, but can tolerate temperatures of 6-30 ° C, prefers an average annual rainfall in the range of 850 - 1,600mm, but tolerates 700 - 2,500 mm with moist dry soil

Parts of the Onion Plant Used

Rhizome and Leaves

Onion Plant Content

The leek plant contains allicin, diallyl sulfide, and calcium oxalate.

 

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Benefits and Efficacy of Onion Plants For Health

The leaves of the leek plant are useful for maintaining heart health.

• Garlic plants to treat colds.
• The leek plant is used as a medicine for fever and flu.
• The leek plant is efficacious for treating diabetes.
• Onion plants to maintain healthy skin, inhibit skin fungus,
• The leek plant is useful for treating intestinal worms.
• The leek plant is used as a medicine for infections and wounds.
• The leek plant is useful as a medicine for bacillary dysentery.
• Notes

There is no information that mentions the contra-indications and the effect of consuming leek herbal medicine.

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