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Winged bean, beautiful with a variety of benefits

Although often considered trivial, a plant this one did have a lot of benefits. Besides beautify the yard, its nutrient content is quite good.

Winged bean plants including plants that easily planted. No wonder that almost all the earth, the archipelago can be cultivated winged bean. Therefore, this single plant has several regional names. Among others cipir (Central Java and East Java), jaat (Sunda), kaceper (Madura), kalongkang (Bali), peanut Blimbing (Padang), and nuts embing (Palembang).

There are two types of winged bean plants, which consume winged bean (Psophocarpus teragonolobus), and forest winged bean (Psophocarpus polustris). Winged bean consumption has been widely consumed. While the forests is not cultivated winged bean and is used only as a ground cover crops. You will find in the oil palm and rubber plantations.

Winged bean flowers was quite beautiful. Usually white, some are blue or violet. Shaped like a butterfly, and blossom in the morning. The fruit is not less interesting. The rectangular-shaped pod, winged each side, and jagged edges. Therefore, he referred to as a "winged bean" or winged bean. Winged bean hanging fruit, with a length ranging from 15-40 cm. When the young are green, and turned into chocolate until the time ripe black. Each pod has about 80-10 seeds which are small and round. The young seeds are yellow, and turns into brown to blackish when old.

NOT LIKE WATER
Winged bean plants have advantages in terms of nutritional value. Winged bean seeds, for example, contains calories and high vegetable protein. While the lowest fat content found on young pods. Winged bean leaves are generally rich in vitamins, especially vitamin A.

Even more interesting, winged bean proved to have other advantages compared to beef and lamb. The proof, the content of calories, protein, fat and carbohydrate winged bean is much higher than beef and lamb.

So what if the winged bean is planted in the yard? First, the winged bean plant will add to the beauty of the garden. Squirm-vine appearance, with attractive flowers, which truly represents the beauty of its own. Not to mention if it has been fruitful. Hanging fruit that will add beauty pages.
In addition, the winged bean is also useful for the improvement of family nutrition and can be used for alternative treatment. For example, are used as eye drops and ear, lid abscess, plus appetite, and so forth.

So, what if want to grow the winged bean in the yard?

1. Cultivate land
garden soil is made loose, and make the guludan (a kind of mound). Guludan size is the length of at least 5 meters or according to field conditions, width of 20 cm and 20 cm high. The distance between guludan 25-30 cm.

2. Spreading Seeds
Choose seeds from the pod parent (leave on the tree for a month). Punch a hole (tugal) guludan soil 5 cm deep with a distance of about 25 cm. Give 0.25 kg of manure per hole. After a month, scatter the seed as much as 2-3 points per hole.

3. Hose
After the seeds sown and covered the ground, flush. The next watering be done 1-2 times a week. Therefore, these plants do not like soggy soil.

4. Install propagation
Propagation is made from bamboo. There are three propagation models, namely, straight up, then straight form the letter A, and set straight into the para-para.

5. Fertilize
When 3-week-old plants, give as much as five grams of NPK / hole. Perform the next fertilization month later, and repeated every month.

6. Harvesting
Winged bean harvesting depends on the needs, wants pod whether young, old pods, or tubers.

Cured with winged bean
Winged bean can be used for traditional medicine, among others:

Eye and ear drops
Prepare a few leaves of winged bean, and then boiled with a little water until boiling. Strain. After chilling, drops into the eyes and ears.

Ulcer drug
Add the fennel into water pulosari winged bean stew with fennel pulosari, then mashed into a paste. Kompreskan this pasta boils.

Appetite enhancer
Java Community godhog familiar with herbal medicine (herbs boiled). Well, winged bean seeds can be one of the ingredients, primarily intended to increase appetite.

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