CUCUR ATAP

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Scientific name: Baeckea frutescens

Facts:

• An evergreen, heather-like shrub or small tree growing up to 8m tall. 
• Growing near the sea or in sheltered locations on mountains.
• Becomes a small tree with switchy twigs, resembling Casuarina spp. 
• On exposed peaty soils and rocky mountain tops, it grows as dwarf shrub-like heather, with a gnarled woody stem and branches, flattened against the soil surface.
• The leaves are harvested for their medicinal uses and to make a refreshing tea and are traded in some areas.
• Poor sandy and ultrabasic soils, in shrubland often at high altitudes. It is also present in seasonally wet savannah and swamp forest. Thickets, slopes, low hills and open grasslands in southern China.

MEDICINE APPLICATIONS



1. All aerial parts of the plant
-Credited with antibacterial, antifebrile and haemostatic properties. It is indicated in the therapy of coryza, influenza, headache, measles, colic and jaundice, in the form of fumigation of the dried plant or the inhalation of vapour from a boiling decoction of the fresh plant.
- It is also prescribed against epistaxis, impetigo, dyspepsia, dysentery and menstrual disorders.

2. Essential oil

- In a simple in vitro enzyme assay, the essential oil of Baeckea frutescens showed strong inhibitory activity of more than 80% at 0.1 mg/ml against lipoxygenase.
- The essential oil at a dose of 435 mg/kg exhibited antihepatotoxic activity.
- The essential oil is used for massage in cases of rheumatism.

3. Leaves and aboveground parts

- Contain series of chromones, chromanones, as well as chromone-C-glycosides that are structurally strongly related to the flavones.
- Some of these chromones have shown strong cytotoxic activity against leukaemia cells

4. The Plant 

- The plant is externally applied as an antiseptic in treating furunculosis and impetigo.

5. The leaves 

- used as an emmenagogue.

6. The leaves 

- occasionally put among clothing to keep insects away.

7. Branches

- are used as brooms.

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