Common Herbal Plants

    

Sambong

Sambong- Scientific Name "Blumea Balsamifera"
This herbal plant is easy to multiply and grow faster. You need a loamy soil in your backyard, in a place where directly hit by the sunlight. This herbal can help those people who have a kidney problem. Leaves- pick 10 to 15 pieces of sambong leaves and wash. Put three cups of water in a saucepan and boil for 10 minutes. Drink 1 to 2 cups a day. Mix with a pure lemon juice for better result.

Ginseng(asian)

Ginseng- Scientific name is "Panax"
- One of the most popular herbal plant in the market. If you want to have this on your backyard, you only need a healthy clay-ground soil, you don't need to fertilize the soil. Just sprinkle an exact amount of water for 2 to 3 times a week. This variety of ginseng(asian) can live in a shady areas or directly hit by the sunlight. After planted, you wait for two to three months for it will blossom. Root-you need to dry the root, then commonly use of root is to mix it in any kind of wine to store for a weeks or month. After a few weeks, you can now drink the wine.

Taheebo

Taheebo- Scientific name is " Tabebuia Avellanedae". It can grow in any kind of soil and in not so cold place. Leaves- pick a healthy leaves and wash thoroughly, put in a saucepan and put enough water to boil, drink until its hot and with a taste of sugar for enjoy drinking a cup of taheebo tea. This herbal plant is help your body for quick recovery from sickness. It contain antibacterial that helps to fight the viruses or infections in our body.

Pansit-pansitan

Pansit-pansitan- Scinetific name is "Peperomia pellucida Linn". It can leave in a shady,damp,loose soil. It is like a weeds that typically grow in any place. It has a tiny seeds that can grow faster. The leaves and stem can eat directly without cooking. Just wash and dry the leaves and stems. Considered anti-inflammatory, refrigirant, analgesic, antifungal, and anti cancer.You can mix it in vegetable salad to better taste. It taste seems like okra.

Tagumbaw

Tagumbaw- Scientific name is "Jathropa Curcas".
This herbal plant are only the leaves can use. Other parts of this herbal are poisonous, the seeds and stems. This type of herbal is marcotting, you can cut the stem and plant to any types of soil. Apply the small amount of coconut oil into the leaves of tagumbaw and toast the leaves to fire. Until it is hot, bond it into the part of skin for absorbing the cold.
They have discovered that the juices or extract is can be use as a bio-diesel.

Alugbati

Alugbati - Scientific name is "Basella Rubra linn." The leaves of alugbati is like somewhat fleshy, the ripe seeds is color pink. It can leave in any kind of  soil that is sweat or loamy soil. It cannot be planted without root or seed. The stem and blossoms is can be eaten. It is anti fungal and anti microbial.