Complementary and Alternative Health Care Modalities

Herbal Plants Medicine Uses Procedure Application

 Boil 2
tablespoons in1
 Gas Pain glass of water for
Example: Alagaw 15 minutes
 Crush some
fresh leaves
 Headache
 Boil chopped  Drink the solution
leaves in 2 when lukewarm
glasses of water  Apply to temples
 Cough for 15 minutes.  Drink 1 part 3
 Cool and strain times a day.
 Diabetes  Consume 1/3 cup
Mellitus  Chopped leaves 3 times a day
and boil in a after meals.
glass of water
for 15 minutes.
 Cool and strain.
Ampalaya (Mamordica  Do not cover.
Charantia)
 Headache
 Insect bites  Crush the  For skin disease
and sprain leaves wash and clean
 Skin diseases  Pound the the wound with
 Cough and leaves the decoction.
Fever,  Boil raw fruits  For headache
Asthma. or leaves in 2 Crush leaves can
glasses of water be applied on the
Lagundi (Vitex for 15 minutes. forehead.
negundo)  For Insect bites
apply the leaves
on affected area
 For Cough and
Fever can be
consume 3 times
in a day.
  Anti- edema  Drink 1 part 3
 Chop the leaves times in a day.
 Diarrhea and Boil it in a
glass of water
for 15 minutes  Drink one part
every 3 hours.
Sambong (Blumea
balsamifera)
 Pound the
 Diarrhea leaves
 For diarrhea can
 Cool and strain be consumed 3
 Cleansing to 4 times in a
wounds  Boil the day.
chopped leaves
for 15 minutes  For wounds can
Bayabas/Guava at low fire. be used 2 times
(Psidium guajava L.) in a day.
 Anti-fungal  Pound the fresh  This can be
matured leaves. applied to the
affected area 1 to
2 times in a day.

Akapulko (Cassia alata

L.)
 Lowers uric  Fill half of the
acid. cup with leaves  Drink 1 part 3
after that add times in a day.
water and boil
it on a low fire.

Ulasimang Bato
(Peperonica pellucida)
 Toothache  Pound it in  For Toothache
small pieces. this can be apply
to the affected
 Hypertension  Soak it in area
vinegar and  For
fried it for 30 Hypertension
Bawang (Allium minutes this can be
sativum) consumed 3
 times in a day
after meals.
 Stomachache
 Can be
 Cool and strain consumed 1 part
 Diarrhea  Chop the leaves for every 3
 For Diarrhea hours.
boil the leaves
into 2 glasses
Tsaang Gubat and 1 glass for
(Carmona retusa) stomachache.
 Headache  For headache  For headache
and and and
Stomachache stomachache, stomachache,
chop the leaves can be consumed
in 2 glasses of one part of every
 Toothache water and boil 3 hours.
it for 15  For toothache,
minutes. soak it in a piece
Yerba (Hierba) Buena  For toothache, of cotton in the
(Mentha cordifelia)  Cough and cut the plant sap and apply it
Cold and squeeze the on the aching
sap. tooth cavity.
 For cough and  For cough and
cold, Soak the cold, this can be
leaves in a consumed as a
glass of hot tea.
water.
 Diabetes  Cool and strain
Mellitus  This can be
(Mild non-  Chop the leaves consumed 1/3
insulin and boil it with cup 3 times a day
dependent) water for 15 after meals.
 Lowers minutes on a
blood sugar low fire.
levels

Ampalaya
  Anti-  Extract the
helmintic seeds from the  The seeds must
(used to plant. be consumed raw
expel two hours before
parasitic the last meal of
worms.) the day of the
patient.

Niyug-Niyogan
References:

Herbal medicine plants approved by the doh. (2017, July 4).

https://www.rnpedia.com/nursing-notes/community-health-nursing-notes/herbal-medicine-plants-
approved-doh.

Zabat, P. (2014, February 23). 10 DOH Approved Herbal Medicine. SlideShare.

https://www.slideshare.net/lopao1024/10-doh-approved-herbal-medicine-pm-zabat.

Malaya, B. (2019, November 22). 13 DOH-approved herbal plants you should know about. WhatALife!
https://www.whatalife.ph/13-doh-approved-herbal-plants-you-should-know-about/.