Medical Plant - Sun Flower

Sun Flower
Helianthus Annuus

Are they called sunflowers because the flowerhead looks like the sun or because it follows the sun across the sky, looking east in the morning and ending the day facing the setting sun in the west?

There are so many different-looking cultivars of sunflower that it's hard to make generalizations about the whole species. Most sunflowers are tall 8-15 ft (2.4-4.6 m); most have rough-hairy oval to heart shaped leaves; most have large flowerheads 8-12 in (20-30.5 cm) across; and most have yellow ray florets and purplish brown disk florets. The ray florets of sunflowers are sterile, and only the disk florets produce seeds.

Medical plants treatment for diseases:

Headache
25 – 30 grams Flowers and 1 egg
Was boiled with 3 glasses of water until ½ glass left


Mastitis
Helianthus Annuus flowers head (without the nut) was cut into small pieces and dried
Fried without oil until scorch then pouched
Mixed 10 – 15 gram powder each with white arrack, sugar and warm water
Then was drank 3 times a day

Note:
For the first, you must drunk till be sweaty, used the blanket for necessary


Rheumatics
Helianthus Annuus flowers head was boiled become porridge
Stuck on the part of body that was pained


Dysentery
Enter the Helianthus Annuus flowers nuts in the hot water (not boil), was leaved till 1 hour
Take and add sugar for necessary then was drunk


Cystitis, Constipate (Defecate or Bladder difficulty)
15 – 30 gram fresh Helianthus Annuus flowers root was boiled for 10 - 15 minutes and then was drunk


COMPOSITION :
Sun Flowers the part of flowers contained Quercimeritrin, helianthoside A, B, C, oleanicacid
Sun Flowers the part of nuts contained a sitosterol, prostaglandine E, chlorogenic acid, quinic acid, phytin, 3, 4 - benzoperene.


Note:
for more description see "Sun Flowers - Helianthus Annuus"