TAWA TAWA HISTORICAL AND

HERBALMEDICINE
Euphorbia Hirta( tawa-
CULTURAL
tawa) is also called SIGNIFICANCE
Gatas-gatas because of
the healing properties
All species of Euphorbia
exude a milky juice
of its milky juice. It is a
when broken, and the
slender-stemmed, Euphorbia hirta's local
annual hairy plant with name "gatas-gatas" is
many branches from the derive from this. It isa
base to the top, the the pan tropical weed,
Howdocsit worksor
branches simple or originating from
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forked and ascending, tropical regions of thePresaralion of Tawa-
Americas.
up to 40 centimeter,
It is a hairy herb that
tawaherbalTea.
tall, reddish or purplish
rake
5 to 6 full whole tawa-tawa plants. Cut
grows, in an open
in color.
grasslands, roadsides and offthe
roots;wash and Cean.
-Fill a boiling pot with clean water
pathways. It is widely used
-Boil the tawa-tawa for 1 minute in a slou
in traditional herbal
roiling boil,cool Let the denguefever patient
medicine across many
drink only tawa-tawa water for 24 hours.
culture, particularly for
2). Cut roots off 5-6 gatas-gatas piants
asthma, skin ailments and
-Rinse Put tawa-tawa into a pot of boiling
hypertension. It is glso
iter for one minute. Cool. Drink the
Consume in herbal tea
decoctim 1 to 1/2 glasses every hour for 24
form as folk medicine forKhours.
Leaves are opposite, elliptic- oblong to fevers in the Philippines 3) Prepare 100 granis of jresh whole plant
oblong lanceolate, distichous, 1 to 2.5 cm particularly for dengue ircluding root. Wash and boil in 500 cc of waten
long, usually blotched with purple in the fever gnd malaria. for 15 minutes. Cool and paper-filtrate. Drink a
middle, toothed the margin
glassful every hour until fever subsides.