Lily Flower

Traditional Medicine (Lily Flower)

Lily flower or a latin name Lilium Candidum L, is known since ancient Greece. Lily initially grown on the plains of the Mediterranean and West Asia, almost every house there adorned with the beauty of this flower. Even then this interest developed in the area of agriculture.
Flowers are typically grown in this May with a good living in the area pegunungan.Tak many who understand that behind the beauty, that lily flower has medicinal properties. According to Prof. Hembing Wijayakusuma in his book The Encyclopedia of Plant Efficacious Drug I, the chemical properties of lily flowers is cool, sweet, and somewhat bitter. Pharmacological effects of this plant was conceived as a cough medicine (antitussive) and tranquilizers (sedatives),. Some diseases that can be overcome flower lily is a cough, swelling and ulcers, tonsillitis, inflammation of the respiratory tract, pneumonia, asthma, stomach pain, chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain after childbirth, acne. And some important chemical substances contained in them, such as flavonoids (known as anti-oxidants, anti-cancer, and helps regenerate the skin), carotenoids that act as anti oxidants, Saponins (also known as an inhibitor of cancer cell growth).

Traditional Medicine (Lily Flower)

Here the efficacy of Lily flower:
1. Helps heal and eliminate scars on the skin, such as burns, injuries from falls. And advantages, Lily can heal wounds without scars. Your skin will return smoothly as before.
2. Saponins are generally present in tubers and seeds. Saponin serves to inhibit cancer growth and helps regulate cholesterol levels. Saponin is also contained in the Lily, that's why there are some cosmetic products that utilize Lily flowers to prevent the growth of cancer cells in the skin (especially if the skin is too often exposed to direct beam sunlight).
3. Lily flower extract to help skin retain moisture, provide special care for dry skin, skin irritations and sensitive skin.

Traditional Medicine (Lily Flower)

4. Polysaccharide which is also contained in this rate included in the hydrocolloid group, its function is to help improve the viscosity and stability of water moisture in the skin. In the skin, this polysaccharide hold water content which is to remain in such a balanced amount.