Author Topic: lets DOH Medicinal Plants (Read 1370 times)

Barbaro · « **on:** May 03, 2008, 01:24:38 AM »

Damong maria -Tag. / Bisaya - Gilbas.

Botany
Erect perennial herb; hairy, aromatic, often semiwoody, with leafy and branched stems, growing to a height of 1 meter. Leaves up to 14 centimeters long, lobed, hairy, gray beneath, with nearly smooth upper surface. Numerous flower heads are spikelike, ascending, branched inflorescences. Fruit is minute.

Distribution
Widely cultivated in the Philippines, around the houses, gardens and open places. Propagated by cuttings and layering.

Chemical constituents and characteristics
Plant yields a volatile oil consisting of cineol, thujone, paraffin and aldehyde.
Fragrant but bitter to taste.

Parts utilized
Leaves and flowers

Uses
Folkloric
- Decoction of fresh leaves and flowering tops, 50 g in a pint of water, 4-5 glasses daily as expectorant.
- Juice of leaves used as vulnerary, to heal wounds and cuts.
- Strong decoction of leaves, 6-7 glasses a day to induce menstruation; also, for post-partum abdominal cramps.
- Juice of leaves applied to head of young children during convulsions.
- For intestinal deworming, decoction of boiled leaves, followed by the juice of aloe or other purgative plants.
- Decoction of leaves used for abdominal colic pains.
- Leaf poultice for headache and skin diseases.
- Decoction of dried leaves used for asthma and dyspepsia.
- Juice used externally for scabies, eczema, herpes.
- With ginger: Pounded leaves, mixed with ginger are wrapped in banana leaves and heated over a fire, and applied to wounds and swollen and inflammed dermal afflictions.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

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Barbaro · « **Reply #1 on:** May 03, 2008, 01:36:05 AM »

Dalanghita
Citrus nobilis
TANGERINE ORANGE
Ch'en P'i

Botany
A small tree. The leaves smooth, oblong to broadly lanceolate, 4 to 10 cm long, with short petioles of about 1 cm long. Flowers are white, solitary and short-pedicelled. Fruits are hesperidums, with a loose skin and leathery pericarp, with a sweet pulp that is only fairly juicy. Of many varieties, the large ones attain a size of about 10 cm.

Distribution
Widely cultivated in the Philippines.
Seeds and cuttings used for propagation.

Constituents
Rind: Volatile oil, 14-19.33%-limonene, 92% and methylanthranillic acid, methyl ester.
Juice: Citric acid, 0.35% - 1.2%; vitamins A, B, and C; hesperidin.

Parts used and preparation
Â· Fruit, rind and seeds.
Â· Rind preparation: gather the rind of any ripe citrus fruit and sun-dry, either whole or cut into thin slices.
Â· Seed preparation: place the seed in a container, add an amount of water equal to one fiftieth of the total weight of the seeds, store for a short time and put into a dry kettle. Heat with a weak fire until the materials turn light yellow and smell fragrant. Sundry the material. Crush before using.

Drug Characteristics and Pharmacological Effects
The seed preparation has pain relieving effect. In Malaya, a decoction of the roots is used in dysentery. Powdered leaves with leaves of Areca catechu may be drunk for stomach ache. An infusion of the fresh juice is used as a cleanser or stimulant of wound surfaces. A lotion of the boiled leaves is used hot on painful places and swelling in Malaya. Seed preparation tastes bitter with pain relieving effect. Rind preparation tastes bitter, with mild nature. The fibers of the rind tastes bitter-sweet, neutral natured.

Uses
Nutritional
Â· Fruit: Food and source of vitamin C.
Â· Flavor: Rind.
Folkloric
Â· Nausea and fainting: Squeeze rind near nostril for irritant inhalation.
Â· Decoction of roots used for cough and fever.
Â· For cough: boil a concentrated decoction of the rind and drink.
Â· For anorexia and vomiting: add fresh rhizome of ginger to a concentrated decoction of the rind and drink.
Â· Decoction of dried flowers used for diarrhea.
Â· Decoction of rind or peel used to regulate menses.
Â· Leg bath of boiled leaves used for rheumatism, and painful and swollen legs.
Â· Oil from rind used for stomach problems; and as liniment for gout, rheumatism and other painful swellings.
Note: The folkloric applications are similar for all Citrus species.

Availability
Widely cultivated.
Commercial fruiting.

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Barbaro · « **Reply #2 on:** May 03, 2008, 01:48:35 AM »

Adelfa
Nerium indicum Mill.
SOUTH SEA ROSE
Chia-chu-t'ao

Botany
Errect, smooth shrub, 1.5 to 3 mteters high with a cream-colored sticky resinous juice. Leaves are in whorls of 3 or 4, linear-lanceolate, 10-15 cm long, with numerous horizontal nerves. Flowers are showy, sweet-scented, single or double, 4-5 cm in diameter, white, pink or red, borne in termianl inflorescense (cymes). Fruit is cylindric, paired, with deep linear striations, 15-20 cm long. Seeds are numerous and compressed, with a tuft of fine, shining, white, silky hairs.

Distribution
Cultivated for its flowers; nowwhere established.

Constituents and properties
Glycoside, oleadrin; tannin; volatile oil, 0.25%.
Nerium oleander's leaves contain two principles: neriin and oleandrin, glucosides with properties similar to digitalin.
The seeds contain phytosterin and l-strophnathin. The bark contains toxic glycosides: rosaginin and nerlin, volatile oil, fixed oil.

Nerium odorum's bark yielded two toxic bitter principlesÂneriodorin and neriodorein. Another toxic principle is karabin. Both karabin and neriodorin are probably resins, rather than glucosides.

The pharmacologic actions of of neriin and oleandrin resemble those of digitalis glucosides. In human beings, toxicity manifests as nausea, vomiting, colic, decreased appetite, dizziness, drowsiness, bradycardia and irregular heart beats, pupillary dilation, and sometimes unconsciousness attributed to digitalis poisoning.

Parts used and preparation
Bark and leaves.

Folkloric uses:
- Herpes zoster (skin): Crush leaves, mix with oil and apply on lesions. Do not apply on raw surface. Milky juice of the plant is irritating. Caution: Not to be taken internally.
- Herpes simplex: Mix 1 cup of chopped leaves and bark with 2 tablespoons of oil. Apply to lesions 3 times daily.
- Ringworm: Chop a foot long branch and mix with 1 cup chopped fresh young leaves. Mix the juice with 5 drops of fresh coconut oil. Apply 3 times daily.
- Snake bites: Pound 10 leaves and a piece of branch. Apply poultice to the wound.
- Root, locally and internally, used for abortion.
- Roots, made into paste with water, used for hemorrhoids.
- Roots and bark used externally for eczema, snake bites and as insecticide.
- Fresh leaves applied to tumors to hasten suppuration.

Availability
Wild-crafted

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