Zodia plants

Zodia is native to Indonesia from Irian (Papua). By local residents of this plant used to repel insects, particularly mosquitoes when going to the woods, that is by rubbing their leaves to the skin. In addition, plants that have a high between 50 cm to 200 cm (average 75cm), is believed to repel mosquitoes and other insects from around the plant. Therefore the plant is often grown in the garden or in pots to repel mosquitos. The aroma released by the plant is quite fragrant Zodia. Usually the plants remove the smell if the plant so shaken by the wind among the leaves are rubbed together, came forth a fragrant aroma. 

Today most people save zodia plants in pots indoors, so in addition to providing flavor, aroma also eliminate the mosquitoes from the room. However, it does not mean that later on in the room there were several carcasses of mosquitoes as a result of this plant, because the mosquitoes were driven not just liked the smell of this plant. Storage plants are also frequently placed in the vicinity of the wind into the room, the mosquito that would masukpun be dispelled. Zodia (Evodia suaveolens) belonging to the Rutaceae family, is said to contain evodiamine and rutaecarpine. From some of the literature, this plant is useful as an anti-cancer properties. According to the results of analysis conducted at the Research Institute for Spices and Medicinal Plants (IMACRI) by gas chromatography, the oil is distilled from the leaves of this plant contains linalool (46%) and a-pinene (13.26%) in which linalool is well known as a repellent (repellent) mosquitoes. 

From tests made the author of the dengue fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti) which often makes people excited, that is by rubbing the leaves zodia to the arm, then his arm is inserted into the box containing the dengue fever mosquito and compared with the arm without zodia rubbed with the leaves, indicating that leaves zodia able to dispel the mosquitoes for six hours to expel the power (power protection) for more than 70%. 

In addition, the arms are bitten by mosquitoes will quickly recover berdaarah fever (bumps and itching) when rubbed with a leaf zodia. This is a new hope to repel an attack of dengue mosquitoes in the future, namely the movement back to nature by using the plants around us to combat dengue fever. This plant is easily propagated, ie through seeds and cuttings of twigs. Usually when we already have plants that have flowered and seeded, the seeds will mature and grow around the plants.