Tambayan ng Kaalaman Tungkol sa Pilipinas
ALIBANGBANG
BAUHINIA MALABARICA Roxb.
Piliostigma acidum Benth.
Bauhinia tomentosa Blanco.
Bauhinia purpurea Vidal.
Local names: Alambangbang (Tag.); alibangbang (Tag., Bis., Pamp.); balibamban (Pamp.); kalibanbang (Pang., Tag.); kalibangbang (Ilk.).
Alibangbang is very common on open, dry slopes in regions subject to a long dry season in Luzon (Ilocos Norte to Laguna). It also occurs in India to Indo-China, Java, and Timor.
ALAS DOCE
HIBISCUS CANNABINUS Linn.
Local names: Alas doce (Sp., Tag.); brown Indian hemp (Engl.).
Alas doce is occasionally planted for ornamental purposes but is scarcely naturalized. It has been found only in Bontoc and Pangasinan Provinces, and in Manila. It is a native of the Old World and is pantropic in cultivation.
This is a herb with smooth and prickly stems. The lower leaves are entire and heart-shaped and the upper ones are deeply palmately-lobed. The sepals are bristly, lanceolate, and connate below the middle, with a gland at the back of each leaves. The corolla is large, spreading and yellow with a crimson center. The capsules are rounded and bristly. The seeds are nearly smooth.
ALAMBRILLONG-GUBAT
ADIANTUM CAUDATUM Linn.
Local names: Alambrillong-gubat (Tag.).
Alambrillong-gubat is widely distributed in the Philippines, being especially common in thickets. It is also reported from Tropical Africa and from Asia to Polynesia.
The stipes are tufted, erect or spreading, more or less covered with brown hairs, 5 to 20 centimeters long. The fronds are linear in outline, simply pinnate, 15 to 30 centimeters long; the leaflets, 1 to 2 centimeters long; the upper margin is rounded, and more or less cut. The ranchis and both surfaces of the frond are villose, rooting at the apex; the sori are roundish on the edges of the lobes.
According to Kirtikar and Basu the leaves are used in the preparation of “sirop-de-capillaire.” In Bourbon it is also used to cure coughs and fevers. Externally it is a remedy for skin diseases and internally it is said to be useful in diabetes.
Source:BPI
ALAMBRILLO
ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS Linn.
Local names: Alambrillo (Sp., Tag.); culantrillo de pozo, culantrillo de alambre (Sp., Tag.).
Alambrillo is found in the Philippines in Bataan Island and Luzon (Nueva Vizcaya, Bontoc, Benguet, and Laguna Provinces).
The stipes are suberect and rather slender, 10 to 20 centimeters long, polished and blackish. The fronds are bipinnate, with a short terminal pinna and numerous erect lateral ones on each side; the segments (pinnae) are 1 to 2.5 centimeters broad, the base being cuneate and the outer edge rounded. The sori are roundish, situated in the roundish sinuses of the crenations.
The leaves are official in the French (1-4); Austrian (1,5-7); Belgian (1-3); Croatico-Slavonica (1); Danish (1,3); Spanish (1-7); German (1-3); Hungarian (1,2); Portuguese (2,3); Rumanian (1-3); Russian (1,2); Serbian (1); Swedish (1); Swiss (1-4) Pharmacopoeias.
In the Philippines the fronds are used in the treatment of chest diseases. They are also used as an emmenagogue. Hooper says that in Iraq and Iran the rhizomes are credited with expectorant properties and are given to relieve difficult respiration and spasms in whooping cough. In Mexico, Martinez reports its use as an aperitive, and diuretic, and as an emmenagogue. Rolet and Bouret say that it is astringent. A syrup of the rhizome is used as an expectorant.
Kirtikar and Basu state that in the Punjab the leaves, along with pepper, are administered as a febrifuge, and that in South India, when prepared with honey, they are used in catarrhal affections. These two authorities quote Rose (Useful Plants of Mexico) in saying that in Colomas this plant is used as a tea to relieve colic. In Indo-China, Crevost and Petelot report that it is used as an emollient and as an expectorant.
Source: BPI