Common

Medicinal
Plants

Group 5
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PLUMIERA RUBRA
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Parts Utilized:
 Bark, leaves and flowers
 Collect from May to October
 Sun dry

Constituents:
 Flowers suppose to be source of perfume known
as “Frangipiani”.
 Bark contains a bitter glucoside, plumierid (2%).
 Latex contains resins, caoutchouc and calcium
salts of plumieric acid: cerotinic acid and lupeol.
 Leaves contain a volatile oil.
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Folkloric Uses:
 Decoction of bark is used as purgative,
emmenagogue and febrifuge.
 Preventive for heat stroke: the material may be
taken as a cooling tea.
 For dysentery, diarrhea during summer season: use
12 to 24 grams of dried material in decoction.
 Arthritis, rheumatism, pruritic skin lesions: Mix the latex
(sap) with coconut oil, warm, and apply to affected
area.
 Decoction of the bark is used as a couterirritant on
the gums for toothache.
 The latex mixed with coconut oil is used for itching.
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 The juice is rubefacient in rheumatic paints, and
with camphor, is also used for itching.
 A pultice of heated leaves is benificial for
swellings.
 Decoction of leaves for cracks and eruptions of
the soles of the feet.
 Infusion or extract from leaves is used for
asthma.
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Availability:

 Wild- crafted
 Cultivated for ornamental use.
KALAMANSI
Citrus Micracarpa
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Parts used and preparation:
 Fruit

Folkloric Uses:
 Aromatic bath: Mix juice with gogo
 Bleaching Agent: cut fruit and apply directly on
freckles.
 Cough and sore throat: Drink warm calamansi-
ade.
 Nausea and fainting: Squeeze rid near nostril to
inhale.
Kalamansi- ade a source of Vitamin C
Flavor: use rind.
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Availability:

 Wildcrafted
 Perennial market produce.
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Pithecellobium dulce
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Parts used and preparation:
 Bark, leaves

Folkloric Uses:
 Frequent bowel movements: Decoction of bark
taken as tea.
 The leaves, when applied as plasters, used for
pain, venereal sores.
 Salted decoction of leaves, for indigestion; also
used as abortifacient.

Availability:
Wild crafted.
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Daucus Carota L.
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Uses:
 Nutritional

Folkloric:
 Believed to be beneficial for cancers and kidney
problems.
 For coughs and chest afflictions, the roots are boiled
in milk; the milk is drunk and a poultice of the root is
applied to the chest.
 For burns and infected ulcers, grafted carrots are
applied to the affected parts.
 Poultice of carrots also used for ulcers, carbuncles,
infected wounds.
 Seeds of the plant when ground to powder and
taken as tea for colic and to increase urine flow.
 Tea of carrot blossoms has been.
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Mimosa pudica
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Uses:
 Decoction of leaves used in asthma
 Urinary complaints, hypertension
 Glandular swelling, soar throat and hoarseness
 Powdered seeds applied to wounds and sores
 Bruised leaves applied to bruises
 Decoction of leaves used for diabetes
 Powdered roots and leaves take with milk for
piles and fistula
 Juice applied externally to fistuious sores
 Poultice of leaves for glandular swellings
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Mangifera Indica
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