Wedang Secang

Yogyakarta has many unique drinks, and generally made from herbs native to Indonesia. One is Wedang Secang. This drink is healthy and has a sweet flavor and the throat is warm. Very fit to drink in times of rain and accompanying at the time staying up.

Wedang Secang

Material:

5 Javanese Chilli

5 Cubeb (kemukus)

5 Cardamom(kapulaga)

5 cloves

1 knuckle of ginger(baked ginger)

1 stalk lemongrass (white only)

1 piece of cinnamon(kayu manis) to taste

1 pinch of secang wood (kayu secang) to taste

5 cups water

sugar cubes / sugar / honey to taste

How to Make:

All materials except secang wood (kayu secang) and sugar, cup washed and boiled with a small flame so that substances contained in them can come out perfectly. After the water brown and fragrant, insert secang wood (kayu secang) and a pot of boiling water and was closed until reddish.

Add sugar or honey to taste.

Note:

To boil it, you should use a broiler made of pottery made of clay for pottery can maintain the aroma of a Wedang Secang.

Serve Wedang Secang in pot soil. Guaranteed more enjoyable and more traditional feel.

We recommend using honey as a sweetener for people with diabetes.

Benefits Secang:

Secang has a pharmacological effect of stopping bleeding, blood purifier, pengelat, detoxifying and antiseptic.

Secang has a natural red color in it contains substances: safrol, tannins, phenil prophil acetate, carminative, and stomakik. Substance - the substance is beneficial to: reduce stress, ease breathing, increase appetite, sweating hands feet, breaking the gas in the stomach, improves digestion and asthma.

But they can also overcome the interference of coronary arteries are narrowed, and also serves to reduce blood pressure so that a smooth blood circulation.

Chemical Ingredients: Acid gallate, tannins, resins, resorsin, brasilin, brasilein, d-alpha-phellandrene, oscimene, essential oils. Leaf: 0.16% -0.20% volatile oil which smelled delicious and almost colorless.