Category: Herbal Medicine

ALABONG – diuretic


 

 PILEA MICROPHYLLA (Linn.) Liebm.

 

Parietaria microphylla Linn.

Pilea muscosa Lindl.

Local names: Alabong (Ig.).

 

Alabong is found in and about towns, on damp walls, etc., throughout the Philippines. It is a native of tropical America, and is now found in most tropical countries.

It is a small, soft, smooth herb, 10 centimeters or less in height. The stems are slender, green with a tint of purple, and angular. The leaves occur in two rows, are petioled, somewhat elliptical in shape, and 2 to 5 millimeters in length. The flowers are very small and crowded and occur in small inflorescences (cymes) which are greenish or tinged with red and less than 1 millimeter in length.

Bruntz and Jaloux report that the entire plant is official in the Mexican (4) Pharmacopoeia.

According to Guerrero the entire plant in infusion is used as a diuretic. De Grosourdy reports that in the Antilles a decoction of the roots sweetened is prescribed also as a diuretic

 

Source:BPI

Agor – herbal medicine

 AGOR

 

FIMBRISTYLIS MILIACEA (Linn.) Vahl.

Scirpus miliaceus Linn.

Scirpus niloticus Blanco

Trichelostylis miliacea Nees & Arn.

Isolepis miliacea Presl

 

Local names: Agor (Tag.); gumi (Pang.); sirau-sirau (Ilk.); sirisi-buyas (Bik.); taulat (Tag.); ubod-ubod (Tag.).

 

Agor is a characteristic paddy weed found throughout the Philippines in open, wet places. It is pantropic in distribution.

 

Agor is tufted, slender, glabrous, rather flaccid annual, 40 to 60 centimeters high. The leaves are basal, distichous, up to 40 centimeters in length. The umbels are decompound, rather lax and diffuse, and 6 to 10 centimeters long. The spikelets are small, globose, 2 to 2.5 millimeters long, pale or brown, mostly slenderly pedicelled, some sessile. The nuts are obovoid, 0.5 millimeter long.

According to Burkill and Haniff the Malays sometimes use the leaves for poulticing in fever.

Source: BPI

Agoho herbal medicine

 

AGOHO

 

CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA Linn.

 

Local names: Ago (Ibn., Neg.); agoho (Tag., Ilk., Bis., Bik.); agoo (Pang., Ilk., Kuy.); agoko (Pang.); ago-o (Ilk.); agoso (Pang., Tag.); ague (Ibn.); alaut (Bon.); antong (Is.); aro (Ilk.); aroho (Ilk., Ting.); aya (Bis.); karo (Ilk.); mahohok (Mbo.); malabohok (Bis.); maribuhok (Bis.); iron wood, Queensland swamp oak (Engl.); taraje, taray (Sp.).

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Agoago – herbal medicine

AGOAGO

 

 LORANTHUS PENTANDRUS Linn.

Loranthus crassus Hook. F.

Loranthus farinosus Griff.

Loranthus farinosus Desv.

Loranthus venosus Bl.

Loranthus flavus Bl.

Loranthus rigidus DC.

Loranthus shawianus Elm.

Loranthus zimmermanni Warb.

Dendrophthoe farinosus Mart.

Dendrophthoe luscobotrya Miq.

Dendrophthoe venosus Mart.

Dendrophthoe pentandra Miq.

Scurrula venosa G. Don

Scurrula pentandra G. Don.

Elytranthe rigida G. Don.

Elytranthe farinosa G. Don.

 

Local names: Agoago (Tagb.); bogto (Tagb.).

 

Agoago is found on trees at low and medium altitudes in Zambales Province, Luzon; and in Palawan. It also occurs from India to southern China and southward to Sumatra, Java, and Borneo.

 

The plant has strong, gray, and terete branches. The leaves are rarely opposite, petioled, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, and rarely obovate, 5 to 20 centimeters long, and 2.5 to 12 centimeters wide, with pointed or nearly obtuse apex. The flowers are in densely crowded, scurfy, axillary, very short recemes, and about 1.5 centimeters long. The bracts are cupular. The calyx tube is cylindrical to urceolate and 1.5 to 2 millimeters long, the calyx-limb is 5-toothed. The corolla is straight, with the tube dilated below and equally 5-cleft at the middle; and with linear, pointed lobes. The fruit is oblong-ovoid, 10 millimeters in length, and 6 millimeters in diameter.

 

Wester records that the stem with leaves contains a glucoside, quercitrine (C7H20O11); and that the wax, on saponification, yields melissylalcohol.

According to Burkill the leaves are pounded and made into a poultice for small cores, ulcers, etc. Burkill and Haniff report that a decoction of the leaves is administered in Perak after childbirth, as a protective medicine.

Source:BPI