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BAECKEA
(Baeckea frutescens)
[gang song]
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CONTAINS: Baeckeol, fenchol, borneol, cineole, cymeme, dipentene, fenchyl alcohol, limonene, 1-linalool, alpha pinene, and terpineol.

A small evergreen tree of the Myrtaceae family which is of Australasian origin and usually found growing by the sea or on mountain tops. The leaves are needle-like and aromatic.

PART USED: Leaves (chiefly) and flowers.

USES

MEDICINAL:
Indonesians consider the decoction to be diuretic, ecbolic (or at least emmenagogue); refrigerant and tonic.
Tea of the leaves has been used for sunstroke; used dried for fever.
Has been used for dysmenorrhea, parturition (childbirth), and as a tonic.
Leaves and flowers have been used in Indochina for catarrh, headache and rheumatism.
Packets of leaves are burned under the bed of colic sufferers by Indonesians.

OTHER:
Dried leaves are placed among clothing to keep insects away.
Leaves are used as an insecticide in Indonesia.





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