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Identify plants with medicinal value growing in the community and their uses in treating certain ailments, e.g.,
 Banaba for difficulty in urination  Sabila for falling hair  Lagundi (five – leg chaste tree) for asthma etc.
(LS2SC-BC-PSD-LE/AE/JHS-53-56)

(Herbal Medicine)

Pre-Test

A. Identify the herbal medicines being described. Write your answers in the blank spaces
provided before each number. Choose your answer inside the box.

garlic onions guava leaves lagundi pansit-pansitan

______ 1. A medicinal plant also used for cooking. It is an effective cure for high blood
pressure. In Filipino, it is called bawang.

______ 2. Its leaves can be used to relieve ailments such as asthma.

______ 3. This herbal medicine is minced and applied on the affected area to relieve
rheumatism.

______ 4. An herbal medicine used in treating boils.

______ 5. Its leaves are boiled, then, the extract is consumed to treat diarrhea.

B. Matching Type. Draw a line to connect each herbal medicine (Column A) to the ailment it
can cure (Column B).

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Post-Test (Herbal Medicine)

A. Direction: Arrange first the jumbled words in the box. Choose from them the
correct answer to complete the sentences below.

1. Herbs are plants with _____________________________.

2. The use of herbal medicines is commonly practiced by ___________________________.

3. Plant chemicals that have healing action on our body are called _____________________.

4. Aside from being used in cooking, _________________ lowers blood pressure.

5. Guava leaves can be boiled and drank if you have _______________________________.

6–7. If you have fever, you can boil the leaves of _____________________ or
________________________.

8–9. Both _________________ and _________________ are good substitutes for cough syrups.
10. An herb also used as a spice in cooking is ___________________.

B. Direction: Identify what kind of herbal plants being shown in the answer sheet. Write your
answer on the blank.

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KEY ANSWERS (Herbal Medicine)

Pre-Test Post-Test A.