This plant has a long stem like a rope with a single leaf which is oval-shaped face and stemmed display. Shaped panicles of small flowers with a white crown. The fruit is small and hard and yellow.
Paederia have unique properties to cool and cleanse the blood. If the crushed leaves of this plant will produce the unpleasant smell like a smelly fart. Because of this odor, paederia often called leaf fart. The smell is caused by indole compounds contained in the leaves of this plant.
Besides indole alkaloids, this plant also contain other chemicals such as asperuloside deasetilas peruloside, paederoside, scanderoside, paederosidic acid and arbutin, gamma-sitosterol, olea-nolik acid and essential oils. Paederia plants also efficacious as an anti-inflammatory, antirheumatic, analgesic, carminative, diuretic, mukalitik, stomatik, expectorant, antipyretic, antibiotics, antitoxin and blood flow and the flow of vital energy. Analgesic effect of this plant are able to eliminate postoperative pain, nerve pain, rheumatism, sprains, fractures, and pain due to knock on intestinal colic, gall and kidney.
This plant is usually used to treat fever, dysentery, maag, raise your appetite, prevent disability, aids digestion, flatulence, rheumatism, and constipation. In fact, Paederia claimed good for the liver. This plant protects the liver from toxic substances such as organic phosphorus attached to the agricultural products sprayed with pesticides. It also increases white blood cell decreases due to radiation therapy.
Part of the plant which is used as medicine are the leaves. For example in the treatment of maag. 3 grams leaves of paederia coupled with 2 grams of turmeric and salt to taste boiled with 110 ml of water for 15 minutes. The water is drink 1 a day for 2 weeks.