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    This document lists various medicinal plants found in the Philippines along with their scientific names, descriptions, and common uses. It provides information on 15 plants including sambong, akapulko, niyog-niyogan, tsaang gubat, ampalaya, lagundi, ulasimang bato, bawang, bayabas, yerba buena and others. For each plant, it describes physical characteristics such as height, leaf shape, and fruit appearance. It also outlines traditional medicinal uses to treat conditions like diabetes, coughs, fever, skin diseases, and more.

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    This document lists various medicinal plants found in the Philippines along with their scientific names, descriptions, and common uses. It provides information on 15 plants including sambong, akapulko, niyog-niyogan, tsaang gubat, ampalaya, lagundi, ulasimang bato, bawang, bayabas, yerba buena and others. For each plant, it describes physical characteristics such as height, leaf shape, and fruit appearance. It also outlines traditional medicinal uses to treat conditions like diabetes, coughs, fever, skin diseases, and more.

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    Accepted Herbal Plants of DOH

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    This document lists various medicinal plants found in the Philippines along with their scientific names, descriptions, and common uses. It provides information on 15 plants including sambong, akapulko, niyog-niyogan, tsaang gubat, ampalaya, lagundi, ulasimang bato, bawang, bayabas, yerba buena and others. For each plant, it describes physical characteristics such as height, leaf shape, and fruit appearance. It also outlines traditional medicinal uses to treat conditions like diabetes, coughs, fever, skin diseases, and more.

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    NAME OF PLANT SCIENTIFIC NAME DESCRIPTION USES PHOTO

     SAMBONG Blumea 1 Anti-edema,


    A plant that reaches 1 Diuretic
    Balsamifera 2
    to 3 meters in height with Anti-urolithiasis,
    rough hairy leaves. Young Anti-cancer
    plants around mother
    plant may be separated
    when they have leaves.
    AKAPULKO / Cassia Alata This plant is about 1 to 2 Anti-fungal,
    meters tall. The leaves are Anti-scabies
    RINGWORM embraced with 8 to 20 mosquito repellent,
    BUSH/BAYAS- oblong elliptical shaped insecticidal, snake
    leaflets. It has flowers bites
    BAYASAN with oblong petals.

     NIYOG- Quisqualis Indica A vine which bears tiny Anti-helminthic (used


    L. fruits and grow wild in to expel parasitic
    NIYOGAN / backyards. The seeds worms)
    CHINESE HONEY must come from mature, anti-inflammatory
    dried but newly opened (redness,swelling)
    SUCKLE fruits. Propagated
    through stem cuttings
    about 20 cm in height
    TSAANG GUBAT Carmona retusa A shrub with small, shiny Diarrhea
    nice-looking leaves that Stomach ache
    / FOREST TEA/ grows in wild
    WILD TEA uncultivated areas and
    forest.

    AMPALAYA / Momordica A climbing vine with Lowers blood sugar


    Charantia tendrils that grows up to Diabetes
    BITTER 20 cm long. Leaves are Mellitus (Mild non-
    GOURD/BITTER heart-shaped, which are 5 insulin depended)
    to 10 cm in diameter.
    MELON Fruits have ribbed and
    wrinkled surface that are
    fleshy green with pointed
    ends at length and has a
    bitter taste.
    LAGUNDI / Vitex Negundo A shrub growing wild in Asthma and cough
    vacant lots and waste Fever, Dysentery,
    5-LEAVED land. The flowers are blue Colds, Pain, Skin
    CHASED TREE and bell- shaped. The Diseases, Wounds,
    small fruits turn black Headache,
    when ripe. It is better to Rheumatism, Sprain,
    collect the leaves when in Contusions, Insect
    blossoms. Bites, Aromatic bath
    for patients
    ULASIMANG Peperomia A weed with heart- Lower uric acid
    Pellucida shaped leaves that grow (Rheumatism and
    BATO / SILVER in shady parts of the Gout)
    BUSH / SHINY garden and yard.
    BUSH
    BAWANG / Allium Sativum A low herb and grows up Hypertension,
    to 60 cm high. Leaves are Toothache, Lowers
    GARLIC flat and linear. Bulbs cholesterol levels in
    consist of several tubers. the blood
    BAYABAS / Psidium Guajava A tree about 4 to 5 meters For washing wounds
    high with tiny white Toothache
    GUAVA flowers with round or Diarrhea
    oval fruits that are eaten
    raw.
    YERBA BUENA / Mentha Cordifolia A small multi-branching Headache, Stomach
    aromatic herb. The leaves ache, Rheumatism
    PERPPERMIT are small, elliptical and Arthritis, Cough and
    with toothed margin. The colds, Swollen gums
    stem creeps to the ground Toothache, Menstrual
    and develop roots. and gas pain Nausea
    and fainting, Insect
    bites, pruritus

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