Amaranth Family Plant: Cockscomb (Celosia cristata L.)

This is a medicinal plant that grows wild on the terrace above the house in Pasar Rebo, East Jakarta, Indonesia, in between the water tank.

Flowers of this amaranth family plant can be used to treat:
- bleeding, such as nosebleeds (epistaxis), coughing up blood (haemoptysis), vomiting blood (hematemesis), bloody urine (hematuria), bleeding hemorrhoids, uterine bleeding,
- dysentery, diarrhea,
- blurred vision, red eye,
- urinary tract infections, gonorrhea, and vaginal discharge (leukorea).

Common Names

English: Cockscomb, Crested Cock's Comb, Coxcomb

Indonesian: Jengger Ayam

Chinese: Ji guan hua

Czech: nevadlec hřebenitý

Philippine: Palong-manok

Slovak: plamenník hrebenitý

Classification of Medicinal plant: Cockscomb (Celosia cristata L.)

Kingdom Plantae Haeckel, 1866 - plants

Phylum Magnoliophyta - Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Flowering Plants

Class Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - dicotyledons

(unranked) eudicots

(unranked) core eudicots

Order Caryophyllales Perleb, 1826

Family Amaranthaceae Adanson, 1763 ex A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons. - amaranth family

Genus Celosia L. - cock's comb

Species Celosia cristata L.

Sinonim
Celosia argentea cristata (L.) Kuntze
Celosia argentea f. cristata (L.) Kuntze
Celosia argentea Linnaeus var. cristata (Linnaeus) Kuntze
Celosia argentea var. cristata (L.) Kuntze

references:

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celosia_cristata
• www.iptek.net.id/ind/pd_tanobat/view.php?mnu=2&id=220
• www.biolib.cz/en/taxonposition/id61904/
• taxonomicon.taxonomy.nl/TaxonTree.aspx?id=6131&tree=0.1
• zipcodezoo.com/Plants/C/Celosia_cristata/
• plantamor.com/index.php?plant=303

Photos of Cockscomb (Celosia cristata L.) flowers were taken using a camera phone, Sony Ericsson K800i, in Pasar Rebo, East Jakarta, Indonesia.

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