headache

Local Names:
                        Abukado (most dialect)
                          Avocado / Alligator pear (Eng.)

Scientific Name:
                        Persea americana Mill

Description:

          A tree bearing large, fleshy, pearshaped fruit containing a single, large seed. The leaves are oblong to ovate with a papery texture. Flowers are very small.

Medicinal Values:

          Prepare a decoction of leaves. Take as a tea or tonic water. Apple warmed leaves on temples and forehead to relieve migraine headache

Local Names:
                          Alagaw (most dialects)
                          Argaw (Bik., Bis.)
                          Anobran (Ilok.)

Scientific Name:
                         Premma odorata Blanco

Description:

          A small hairy tree or shrub with wide leaves that are heart shaped at the based and pointed at the tip. Flowers are small and arranged in a big cluster at the tip of the stem. The small fruits turn purple when ripe.

Medicinal Values:

          Crush the leaves. Apply as poultice on forehead. Tie with a piece of cloth to keep in place.

Local Names:
                          Alibangbang (most dialects)
                          Butterfly Plant (Eng.)

Scientific Name:
                         Piliostigma malabricum Roxb.

Description:

          A small tree. The leaves are thin and wide resembling the wings of the butterfly. It has long, narrow, flat pods. The violet, pink or yellow flowers look like orchids.

Medicinal Values:

          Pass the leaves over the flame, Crush them. Apply on temples and other affected parts.

Local Names:
                         Bawang (Bik.; Tag.)
                         Bauang (Ilok.)
                         Ahos (Bis.)
                         Garlic (English)

Scientific Name:
                         Allium sativum

Description:

          Herb with broad ovoid bulbs divided into cloves around an underground stem. The leaves are long, flat and pointed. The pinkush flowers form an umbrella-shaped cluster.

Medicinal Values:

          Crush one clove. Mix with oil. Apply as poultice on the temple and forehead.

Local names:
                         Atsuete (most s\dialect)
                         Asuete (Ilok.)
                         Annato (Eng.)

Scientific Name:
                      Bixa Orellana L.

Description:

          A small tree bearing capsular fruits covered with soft spines. The bearing many contain many small, red seeds that produce the red annato dye. The leaves are ovate with a broad base and pointed tips. Flowers are small white or pinkish clusters.

Medicinal Values:

          Bruise the young leaves. Apply on forehead and temples. Leave for a few hours and change when the leaves dry up.

Local Names:
                         Kamoteng kahoy (most dialect)
                         Balanghoy (Bis.)
                         Balinghoy (Bis. / Ilok.)
                         Cassava / Tapioca (Eng.)

Scientific Name:
                         Manihot esculenta Crantz

Description:

          A slender stemmed, erect shrub. The leaves are palmately lobed with a long, slender, reddish petiole. The roots are fleshy and starchy and is edible.

Medicinal Values:

         Pound the leaves. Apply as poultice on the forehead and temple.

Local Names:
                          Kosol (Tag./Bis.)
                          Disol (Ilok.)
                          Dusol (Bik.)

Scientific Name:
                          Kaemferia galanga L.

Description:

           A stemless herb with an aromatic tuberous rootstock. The leaves are horizontalyy speading, broadly ovate with a rounded base. The flowers are few and pink in color.

Medicinal Values:

           Prepare a decoction of the rhizomes. Drink as tea.

Local Names:
                       Lagundi (most dialects)
                        Five fingers (English)
                        5-leaves Chaste Tree (English)

Scientific Name:
                        Vitex negundo L.

Description:

          A shrub growing wild in thickets and waste places. Its compound leaf has 3 to 5 leaflets. The flowers are blue and bell shaped. The small fruits black when ripe.

Medicinal Values:

         Crushed leaves maybe applied on the forehead.

         Stuff a small pillow with the leaves and use it as the pillow to relieve headache.

Local names:
                        Santol (most dialects)

Scientific Name:
                        Sandoricum koetjape Merr.

Description:

          A tall tree with erect trunk. The leaves are trifoliate, hairy and elliptic. It has numerous greenish yellow flowers. The fruits are relatively large, rounded, and yellow when ripe. The seeds are large and surrounded by white, fluffy acid pulp.

Medicinal Values:

          Heat the leaves over low flame. Bruise the leaves. Apply as poultice over the forehead. Leave overnight.

Local names:
                         Sambong (Tag.)
                         Sobsob (Ilok.)
                         Lakad-bulan (Bik.)
                         Alibhon (Bis.)

Scientific Name:
                         Blumea balsamefera L.

Description:

           A coarse, erect, hairy, aromatic shrub. The leaves are broadly elongated and alternately arranged. Its yellow flowers are borne on much branched and leafy clusters.

Medicinal Values:

          Crush the leaves. Mix with a little coconut oil and apply on the affected area.

Local names:
                         Pandan (most dialects)
                         Fragrant Screw Pine (Eng>)

Scientific Name:
                         Pandanus amaryllifolius

Description:

          An erect shrub that produces a lot of brace roots from the main stem. It has smooth, lanceolate,fragrant leaves resembling that of pineapple plants.

Medicinal Values:

          Cruch the leaves and use as poultice on the forehead. For rheumatism, crush the leraves with oil and apply at the joints.

Local names:
                         Oregano (most dialects)

Scientific Name:
                         Colues ambonicus L.

Description:

           A spreading aromatic herb. The leaves are broad, oblong and succelent, covered with very fine hair. The branches are brittle and succulent.

Medicinal Values:

          Apply bruise leaves on the temple and forehead.

Local names:
                         Niyog-niyogan (most dialects)
                         Taratarau (Ilok.)
                         Kasumbal (Bik.)
                         Chinese Honey suckel (Eng.)

Scientific Name:
                         Quisqualis indica L.

Description:

          A large, climbing woody shrub. The leaves have rounded base and pointed tip. The tubular flowers are sweet scented and red. The fruit when dried contain a black 5-sided seed that tastes like coconut.

Medicinal Values:

          Crush the leaves. Apply on temple and forehead.

Local names:
                         Mayana (most dialexts)
                         Lapunaya (Bis.)
                         Coleus (English)

Scientific Name:
                         Coleus scutellariodes L.

Description:

          An erect, branched and fleshy herb. The variegated leaves are heart-shaped and wit toothed margins. The purplish flowers are small and terminal.

Medicinal Values:

          Use pounded leaves as poultice. For headaches, apply on the temples. For gas pains apply on the abdomen.