HERBAL MEDICINES

CARL LINNAEUS • Stop giving the herbal medication in case

• Swedish botanist an untoward reaction such as an allergy
• is famous for his work in Taxonomy occurs.
TAXONOMY • If signs and symptoms are not relieved
• the science of identifying, naming, and after 2 or 3 doses of herbal medication,
classifying organisms (plants, animals, consult a doctor
bacteria, fungi & more)
10 HERBAL MEDICINES APPROVED
REPUBLIC ACT 8423
BY THE DOH
• otherwise known as TAMA
1. Sambong (Blumea balsamifera)
TRADITIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
ACT OF 1997
• an act creating the Philippine Institute of
Traditional and Alternative Health Care
(PITAHC) to accelerate the development of
traditional and alternative health care in
the Philippines, providing for a traditional
and alternative health care development
fund and other purposes • Reaches 1 ½ to 3 meters in height with
REMINDERS ON THE USE OF HERBAL rough hairy leaves
MEDICINE • Young plants around the mother plant
• Avoid the use of insecticides as these may may be separated when they have 3 or
leave poison on plants. more leaves
• In the preparation of herbal medicine, use • Is not a medicine for kidney infection
a clay pot and remove the cover while USES
boiling at low heat. • Anti-edema
• Use only the part of the plant being • Diuretic
advocated. • Anti-urolithiasis
• Follow accurate dose of suggested PREPARATION
preparation. • Boil chopped leaves in water for 15
• Use only one kind of herbal plant for each mins until 1 glassful remains. Cool
type of symptom or sickness. and strain
• Use only half the dosage prescribed for • Divide into 3 parts. Drink 3x a day
fresh parts like leaves when using dried 2. Akapulko (Cassia alata).
parts. .
• Decoctions lose potency after some time.
Dispose of decoctions after one day.
• To keep fresh during the day, keep
lukewarm in a flask or thermos.
• Leaves, fruits, flowers, or nuts must be
mature before harvesting.
• Less medicinal substances are found on • Ringwormn Bush
young parts. • Bayas-bayasan and inser5t
• 1-2 meters tall
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• Leaves are embraced with 8-20 4. Tsaang Gubat (Carmona retu)
elliptical-shaped leaves
• Has flowers with oblong sepal
USES
• Anti-fungal
o Tinea Flava
o Ringworm
o Athlete’s Foot
o Scabies
PREPARATION
• Forest Tea or Wild Tea
• Fresh, matured leaves are pounded • A shrub with small, shiny nice-
• Apply as soap to the affected part looking leaves that grows in wild
1-2x a day uncultivated areas and forests
3. Niyug-niyogan (Quisqualis indica L.) USES
• Diarrhea
• Stomach ache
PREPARATION
• Boil chopped leaves in 2 glasses of
water for 15 mins or until the water
goes down to 1 glass. Cool and
strain
• Chinese Honey Suckle • Wash leaves and chop.
• Vine which bears tiny fruits and • Boil chopped leaves in 1 glass of
grows wild in backyards water for 15 mins.
• Seeds must come from mature, • Cool and strain
dried but newly opened fruits 5. Ampalaya (Momordica charantia)
• Propagated through stem cutting
about 20cm in height
USES
• Ant-helminthic
PREPARATION
• Seeds are eaten raw 2 hours before
the pt’s last meal of the day
• Bitter gourd/ bitter melon
• Adults may take 10 seeds; children
• Tendrils grow up to 20 cm long
4-7 years may eat up to 4 seeds
• Heart-shaped leaves w/c are 5-10cm
only; ages 8-9 may take 6 seeds and
in diameter
7 seeds may be eaten by ages 10-12
• Fruits have a ribbed and wrinkled
years old
surface that is fleshy green with
pointed ends at length and have a
bitter taste.
USES
• Lowers blood sugar
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• Diabetes Mellitus (mild non-insulin- water to produce a glass full of
dependent) decoction 3x a day
PREPARATION • For skin diseases (dermatitis,
• Gather and wash young leaves very scabies, ulcer, eczema) and
well. wounds, prepare a decoction of
• Chop. the leaves. Wash and clean the
• Boil 6 tbsp in 2 glassfuls of water skin/wound with decoction
for 15 mins under low fire. • For headaches, crushed leaves may
• Do not cover the pot be applied to the forehead
• Cool and strain • For rheumatism, sprain,
• Take 1/3 cup 3x a day after meals contusions, and insect bites, pound
6. Lagundi (Vitex negundo) the leaves and apply on the
affected part.
7. Ulasimang Bato (Peperomia pellucida)

• 5-leaved Chaste Tree

• A shrub that grows wildly in vacant • Silver bush or shiny bush
lots and wasteland • Pansit-Pakistan
• Matured branches are planted • A weed with heart-shaped leaves
• Has blue and bell-shaped flowers that grow in shady parts of the
• Small fruits turn black when ripe. It garden and yard
is better to collect leaves when are USES
in bloom • Lowers uric acid
USES o Rheumatism
• Asthma and cough o Gout
• Fever, Dysentery, Colds, & Pain PREPARATION
• Skin diseases and wounds • Wash the leaves well.
• Headache • 1 ½ cups of leaves are boiled in 2
• Rheumatism, sprain, contusions, glassfuls of water over a low fire.
insect bites • Do not cover the pot.
• Aromatic bath • Cool and strain.
PREPARATION • Divide into 3 parts and drink 3x a
• For asthma, cough, and fever, boil day
chopped raw fruits or leaves in 2 • May also be eaten as a salad
glasses of water left for 15 mins o wash the leaves well
until is only 1 glass (decoction). o prepare 1 ½ cups of leaves (do
Strain not closely pack)
• For dysentery, colds, & pain, boil a o divide into 3 parts and take 3x a
handful of leaves and flowers in day
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8. Bawang (Allium sativum) • Diarrhea
PREPARATION
• Warm decoction is used for
gargling
• Freshly pounded leaves are used
for toothache
• Giava leaves are to be washed well
and chopped
• Boil for 15 mins at low fire
• Garlic
• Do not cover the pot
• Low herb and grows up to 60 cm
• Cool and strain before use
high
10. Yerba Buena (Mentha cordifelia)
• Leaves are flat and linear
• Bulb consists of several tubers
• Take on a full stomach to prevent
stomach and intestinal ulcers.
USES
• Hypertension
• Toothache
• Lowers cholesterol levels in the
blood • Peppermint
PREPARATION • Small, multi-branching aromatic
• May be fried, roasted, soaked in herb.
vinegar for 30 mins, or blanched in • Leaves are small, elliptical, and
boiled water for 5 mins with toothed margin
• Take 2 pcs 3x a day after meals • Stem creeps to the ground and
• For toothache, pound a small piece develops roots
and apply it to the affected part USES
9. Bayabas (Psidium guajava) • Pain
• Rheumatism, arthritis, and
headache
• cough and cold
• swollen gums and toothache
• menstrual and gas pain
• nausea and fainting
• insect bites and pruritus
PREPARATION
• Guava
• For pain, boil chopped leaves in 2
• A tree 4-5 m high with tiny white glasses of water for 15 mins. Cool
flowers with round or oval fruits and strain
that are eaten raw
• For rheumatism, arthritis, and
USES
headache, crush the fresh leaves
• Washing wounds
• Toothache
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and squeeze the sap. Massage sap
on painful parts with eucalyptus
• For cough and cold, get about 10
fresh leaves and soak them in a
glass of hot water. Drink as tea.
Acts as an expectorant
• For toothache, cut the fresh plant
and squeeze the sap. Soak a piece
of cotton in the sap and insert this
in the aching tooth cavity. The
mouth should be rinsed by gargling
salt solution before inserting the
cotton
o To prepare the salt solution:
add 5g of table salt to 1 glass of
water
• For menstrual pain and gas pain,
soak a handful of leaves in a glass
of boiling water. Drink infusion. It
induces menstrual flow and
sweating
• For nausea and fainting, crush
leaves and apply them at the
nostrils of pt.
• For insect bites, crush leaves and
apply the juice on the affected part
or pound leaves until paste-like and
rub on the affected part