Seeing the Content, Benefits and Cultivation of Kencur

Just like ginger and turmeric, kencur is included in the finding-finding tribe in the form of rhizomes. Kencur is widely used as a spice for cooking or also made for herbal drinks such as herbs. The strong aroma of kencur can tell the difference between kencur, ginger, and turmeric.

Some dishes that are famous for using kencur spices are seblak and karedok. Seblak is a food that uses kencur as one of its characteristics.

There are several ingredients, and the benefits of kencur. Besides that, also know how to cultivate kencur. 

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Content

One of the contents of kencur is essential oil and also alkaloid compounds. Essential oils are plant extracts that have many health benefits. Usually, essential oils are often used as the main ingredient in aromatherapy treatment.  

In addition, it also contains other compounds such as minerals, starch/starch, cinnamic acid, gum, ethyl ester, borneol, anti-bacterial, penta decane, camphene, cytotoxic, anistic acid, metal kanil acid and others.

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Benefit

The content in kencur is quite a lot, because of that kencur can make health benefits. As can lower bad cholesterol, can increase appetite, increase energy and can also overcome flatulence.

In the community, many also use kecur as a cough medicine and flatulence. Kencur can also prevent dental caries because it contains antimicrobials that can inhibit bacteria that will damage teeth.

Lack of appetite can also be increased by kencur, especially for children. The processing can be made like kencur rice which is widely sold.

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Cultivation of kencur

Just like ginger and turmeric, kencur can also be cultivated using the old rhizome. Kencur can be planted using potted media or polybags. The soil used as a plant medium is usually not too dry or wet. Kencur is good when planted in the rainy season, because the water content required is quite high. Harvesting is done at the age of 8-12 months, the way is by pulling the kencur up to the roots.

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In Indonesia, many have cultivated kencur, for example in East Java, Central Java and West Java. Kencur cultivation also has very promising prospects.

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