The Medicinal Plants
The Medicinal Plants
The Medicinal Plants
THE
MEDICINAL
PLANTS
MEDICINAL PLANT
A medicinal plant is any plant which, in one or
more of its organs, contains substances that can be
used for therapeutic purposes, or which are
precursors for chemo-pharmaceutical semisynthesis. When a plant is designated as
medicinal, it is implied that the said plant is
useful as a drug or therapeutic agent or an
active ingredient of a medicinal preparation.
Medicinal plants may therefore be defined as
a group of plants that possess some special
properties or virtues that qualify them as
articles of drugs and therapeutic agents, and
are used for medicinal purposes.
Medicinal Uses:
Medicinal Uses:
Among all the other plants, research studies have shown that Camote tops may be
used as a remedy to Dengue fever. It is said to help increase platelet counts that
would help recover from Dengue.
Diabetes
Heart Disease
Cancer (Colon, Stomach)
Problem on bowel movement
High Blood Pressure
Medicinal Uses:
Help improve liver function for those with cirrhosis of the liver and chronic hepatitis.
Prevents inflammation of the liver
Cure for Amanita phalloides mushroom poisoning
Helps control blood sugar in patients with diabetes and cirrhosis.
Helps lower cholesterol levels.
Reduces growth of breast, prostate, cervical and skin cancer cells.
Helps reduce fatty infiltration on the liver caused by toxins and alcohol.
A strong antioxidant that helps fight free radicals (see Key to Healing).
Not used to prevent hepatitis C, but used to minimize the damage caused by it.
Non-toxic / no known overdose symptoms.
Medicinal Uses:
Decoction of leaves used as diuretic and considered useful for gonorrhea.
Useful in the treatment of chronic and obstinate eczema. Also prescribed for
secondary and tertiary syphilis accompanied by gummatous infiltration and
ulceration, in chronic and callous ulcers, as a stimulant in infantile diarrhea
and eczema and abscess, and in chronic rheumatism.
Leaves are toasted and given as infusion in bowel complaints and fevers of children.
Also applied as anti-inflammatory to areas of blows and bruises.
Seeds used for dysentery, fever, and headache.
Infectious hepatitis, measles, respiratory tract infections - colds, tonsillitis,
laryngopharyngitis, bronchitis.
Wounds and sore: The sap of the leaves is used on wounds and skin sores.
Also, on chaps, scratches and superficial burns.
In many folkloric systems, used for tuberculosis, syphilis, dysentery, hypertension, venous
extremity problems and common cold.
Medicinal Uses:
For rheumatic lumbar and leg pains, sprains, contusions: use dried vine materials.
For jaundice, edema due to malnutrition: use powdered seeds, 3 to 9 gms taken
orally with water.
Abdominal pains and colic: Pound the kernels of the seeds, mix with oil and apply as
poultice onto affected area.
Counterirritant: Make a paste of the seeds and apply to glandular swellings in the
axilla, loins
and joints, and swollen hands and feet.
Hair wash: Soak the prepared bark in water until soft; express the juice by rubbing
the spread fibers against each other until lather is produced; use as hair shampoo.
Medicinal Uses:
Pounded fresh material is applied as a poultice for a variety of conditions: Sprains, eczema,
infections, burns; carbuncle and erysipelas. Usually not taken internally.
For boils, the whole leaf is pressed by hand, to and fro, until it becomes moist with
the leaf extract. A small opening is made in the middle of the leaf which is then
placed on the boil with hole over the pointing of the abscess.
Medicinal uses
Preventive for cough, flu, epidemic meningitis.
Whooping cough (use entire plant or flower)
Gas pains: Warm oil, add and mix the flower heads, let stand for 30 mins and strain. Apply
warm oily solution to abdomen.
Eczema infections
Hypertension (use flowers)
Poisonous snake bites, sprains and bruises]
Infections of the cervix (use flowers, process into emulsion and apply to afflicted region
Mammary carbuncle
Insect repellent: Burn the flowers.
Tea used as a wash for sore eyes, open sores, and wounds
Decoction of old leaves and dried fruit, has been used for diabete
The bark decotion has been used for the treatment of diarrhea.
The bark, flower and leaves used to facilitiate bowel movements.
Decoction of leaves and flowers used for fevers and as diuretic.
Decoction of fruits or roots gargled for aphthous stomatitis.
Leaf decoction or infusion used for bladder and kidney inflammation,
dysuria, and other urinary dysfunctions.
Ringworm: Chop a foot long branch and mix with 1 cup chopped fresh young leaves.
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.
Plant Name: TALONG (EGGPLANT)
Scientific name: SOLANUM MELONGENA L.
Parts and Medicinal use:
Leaves are used for piles.
The boiled root of the wild plant, mixed with sour milk and grain porridge, has been
used for the treatment of syphilis.
Long fruit is phlegmatic and generative of phthisis, coughs, and anorexia.
Decoction of roots, dried stalk, and leaves is used for washing sores, exudative surfaces and
used as astringent for hemorrhage from the bladder and other hemorrhagic fluxes.
The juice of leaves used for throat and stomach troubles.
Decoction of roots taken internally for asthma and as a general stimulant.
Juice of the fruit, sometimes with pounded leaves, rubbed on suspected syphilitic eruptions
of the hands.
Fruit considered cooling, and bruised with vinegar
Chinese and Annamites used the roots for skin diseases.
In Taiwan folk medicine, roots are used for rheumatism, inflammation and foot pain.
The peduncle, incinerated, used in intestinal hemorrhages, piles, and toothache.
Seeds used as stimulant but may cause dyspepsia and constipation
In French Guinea, decoction or infusion of leaves is used for stomach troubles and
sore throat.