8(eight) Essential Part of Wedang Uwuh

Wedang uwuh is a drink with ingredients such as de foliage similar to the trash. In the Java language, wedang means drinks, while uwuh means trash. Wedang uwuh served hot or warm have a sense of sweet and spicy with a bright red color and scent. Spicy flavor because of ingredients ginger, while the red color because of the cup. Uwuh Wedang this is a typical drink of Yogyakarta. At first wedang uwuh still intact in the form of material in the form of a spice native, but over the times and the need for practicality, this time wedang uwuh already developed into the instant form, and the form of the dye. 

Materials and efficacy :

1. Ginger
2. Wood Secang
3. Cloves, Flower, Stem and Leaf Clovers
4. Cinnamon and Cinnamon Leaf
5. Nutmeg and Nutmeg Leaf
6. The Roots and Leaf of Lemongrass
7. Cardamom
8. Sugar Cubes

Ginger

Many domestic researches reveals the efficacy of ginger is an anticoagulant (anti-clotting) to prevent blockage of blood vessels, a major cause of stroke, heart attacks are more powerful than onions or garlic, and also capable of lowering cholesterol by reducing the absorption of cholesterol in the blood and liver.

Essential oils issued rhizome of ginger is useful issuing intestinal gas and help the function of the heart, lowers blood pressure and cleanses the body through sweat, This is because ginger stimulates the release of the hormones adrenaline and widen blood vessels, resulting in blood flow faster and smoother and lighten the work of the heart to pump blood.

The study, conducted by experts in Japan also revealed that ginger can reduce high blood pressure by reducing the flow rate of peripheral blood (peripheral blood flow). Ginger also stimulates the digestive glands, either to arouse the appetite, strengthens the stomach and improves digestion.

Typical aroma of ginger, efficacious to prevent and treat nausea and vomiting, such as motion sickness or in women who are pregnant, because ginger is able to block serotonin, a chemical that can cause the stomach to contract, causing nausea.

In traditional Asian medicine, ginger is used to treat colds, coughs, diarrhea and inflammatory diseases of the joints such as arthritis. Ginger also contains antioxidants that help neutralize the damaging effects caused by free radicals in the body.

Wood Secang

This herb makes wedang uwuh red. In Yogyakarta and surrounding areas, this herb is commonly called the wooden cup (Caesalpinia sappan) has long been known as ingredients for treating various diseases, such as syphilis, coughing blood, and inflammation. Research conducted at the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta also revealed that a cup has the ability antioxidant, anticancer, improving blood circulation and eases breathing.

Cloves, Flower, Stem and Leaf clovers

Cloves have overcome the efficacy of dental pain, sinusitis, nausea and vomiting, bloating, colds, headaches, stomach ulcers, cough, delayed menstruation, rheumatism, measles, and others.

Chemical properties and the effects of pharmacological of cloves is warm, it was sharp, aromatic, efficacious as a stimulant (stimulant), antiseptic, laxative fart (carminatives), local anesthetics, relieve colic and cough medicine. Chemical content in the cloves are carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B1, fat, protein, and eugenol.

Clove (Syzygium aromaticum) besides containing essential oils, it also contains a chemical compound called eugenol, oleanolat acid, acid galotanat, fenilin, karyofilin, resins and gums. Clove oil clove itself widely used by dentists as a painkiller.

Cinnamon and Cinnamon Leaf

Cinnamon and cinnamon leaf makes sense "wedang uwuh" is much more enjoyable also have antioxidant properties. Many herbalists believe that a mixture of ginger and cinnamon efficacious to increase endurance because of the high antioxidant content. There are several diseases that can be cured with a mixture of cinnamon: Abdominal pain, bloating, sinus headaches, fatigue, excess weight.

Nutmeg and Nutmeg Leaf
Fruit nutmeg and nutmeg with fragrance fragrant leaves this turns out to have many benefits for health. The chemical content of flavonoids, saponins and polyphenols can overcome cough phlegm, helps digestion, relieving muscle spasms, relieve pain, treat colds, insomnia (difficulty sleeping disorders), is stomakik (facilitate digestion and increase appetite), blood circulation, carminative ( facilitate flatulence), anti-emetics (nausea want to vomit because of colds), menstrual pain, rheumatism etc.

Roots and Leaf of Lemongrass

Root Lemongrass has long been used as laxative urine, sweat bullets, sputum / cough, material for mouthwash and body warmers. Leaf: used as a laxative wind stomach, appetite enhancer, postpartum treatment, fever and spasms reliever.

Cardamom

Cardamom contains essential oils, cineol, terpineol, borneol, proteins, sugars, fats, silicates, betakamfer, sebinena, mirkena, mirtenal, karvona, terpinil acetate, and grit. The content of cardamom has efficacy as cough medicine and to prevent bone loss.

Sugar Cubes

Sugar cubes provide a sweet taste without losing its distinctive aroma and flavor of the original ingredients wedang uwuh potion. By the people of Jogja, rock sugar has been known since long as a stubborn cough medicine. By cutting pieces of cucumber, then put rock sugar to taste in the middle of the cucumber seeds, wait until the sugar cubes melt, then melt molten rock sugar that exist in the cucumber seeds taken little by little until rock sugar solution had been discharged.