ATIS LEAVES

HEALTH BENEFITS

Kills hair lice
Lower blood sugar level
Scabies
Rheumatism
Wounds
Diarrhea
Dysentery
Liver aid
Stomachache


PROPERTIES

Anti-diabetic
anti-inflammatory



STEP BY STEP GUIDES ON HOW TO MAKE ATIS LEAVES TEA


Step 1: Take 10 pieces of atis leaves and wash them thorougly with clean water

Step 2: Put the atis leaves in a boiling pot and pour 1 liter of water

Step 3: Boil the atis leaves for 10-15 minutes

Step 4: After boiling the atis leaves, immediately remove the leaves or immediately pour the made tea into a container

Step 5: Let it cool the made tea before drinking and enjoy the benefits to our body.




Atis leaves comes from the plant which produce atis fruit. The fruit also well known as custard apples. It is sweet, creamy flesh and have oval round shape. The leaves believe can cure diabetic due to it benefit for the blood sugar level in human body. Therefore, consuming atis leave extract will benefit to reduce diabetic symptoms.
Atis plant is native to America and West Indies. But the plant is common is Asia region too, including in Philippines. The plant can reach up to 6 meters and has irregularly branches. To cultivate the tree also not difficult. It will grow well in a fertile soil with enough water. Hence, many people in tropical countries grow the plant in the backyard.

The leaves has anti-inflammatory properties and a soothing effect. Therefore, it helps to heal wounds caused by diabetic condition. It will soothe the ache inflammation which normally spread out in the diabetic patient. Furthermore, it will lead to fast recovery of diabetic wound. This is the same as health benefits of arnica as an anti inflammatory to the swollen inflammation.

Potassium and magnesium present in high quantities in these leaves. It is known to relax the muscles of the heart. Therefore, another health benefits of atis leaves for diabetes including to help in preventing the risk of strokes and heart disease. Which normally happen as complicated diseases due to diabetic condition.

Side Effects of Atis Leaves:
Even though there is some health benefits of atis leaves for diabetes, the leave also has some side effects. Below is some caution when decide to consume atis leave extract:

Atis leave may produce allergically reactions such as itchiness or redness. Therefore, sensitive persons with allergically history shall be carefully when consuming the extract.
Diabetic patient who frequently consume the extract shall be carefully not to drop the blood glucose level. Otherwise, it will cause nausea and dizziness due to the dropped blood glucose level.
Pregnant woman shall avoid this extract tea since it can lead to miscarriage. It is better to consume virgin coconut oil due to the health benefits of coconut oil during pregnancy.
Diabetic patient who consume the extract in the middle of the medical treatment shall consult with the medical practitioner first. Since the interact reaction of the extract can interfere the medicine result.
The main important content is vitamins and minerals inside the atis leave. Which can be beneficial for the diabetic. This is the different way with the fruits, which might be harmful for diabetic patient due to the high sugar content.

RAMBUTAN LEAVES

HEALTH BENEFITS

Fever
Helps digestive system
Kidney stone
Scabies
Diabetes
Lower cholesterol level
Good for the skin
Help maintaining good health of your scalp
Strengthening hair roots
Preventing or helping with hair loss
Solving problem and delay the production of white hair
A good natural pain killer
Helping with digestion problem.


PROPERTIES

Anti-oxidant
anti-microbial


HOW TO MAKE RAMBUTAN LEAVES PASTE FOR HAIR CARE:

Mash some rambutan leaves with your traditional mortar and pestle or if you don’t have one you can use any kind of tools like grinder make it into a pulp.
Add a little water (make sure it is not too much, just enough to moisten the mixture)
Filter it to get the extract.
You can now apply it to your scalp and hair. Use it regularly until the desired result is achieved.


HOW TOMAKE RAMBUTAN LEAVES TO TREAT YOUR FEVER:

Pick some rambutan leaves and left them to dry.
Take 15 grams of the dried leaves
Add three glasses of water to the dried leaves.
Boil the mixture.
Let it cool and strain it with filter.
Consume the brew three times a day to relieve the fever.


Health benefits of rambutan may be already familar, but how about benefits of rambutan leaves ? Being nominated as one of the world most “Exotic Fruit” Rambutan has proven to be more than what it was tagged with. Scientifically named as “Nephelium Lappaceumis” Rambutan come in a bundle in one stem. Physically, it looks a lot like its sibling lychee. Not to be mistaken though, rambutan has a striking physical difference, which is its hair. Yes, I prefer to call it hair instead of spikes since, these spikes are harmless and will not hurt your finger if you touch it. Lychee on the other hand did not have this hairy feature on its skin. Rambutan naturally grown in Southeast Asia and is popular among the locals as favorite ingredients or topping for a lot of types of dessert. Although the fruits gain the most recognition for being the popular sweets, it has not escaped from folks observation that the leaves are commonly used as a medicinal herbs and ointments.

Rambutan leaves are of an oval shape and ranged from dark green to yellowish green in color. The leaves come in a bundle of leaflets. The size of the leaflet varied from 5 to 15 centimeters in length and 3 to 10 centimeters in width.

The first and foremost thing that will come up to your mind, especially if you are familiar with the benefits of rambutan leaves is its properties in helping hair problem situation. But it surprisingly offers much more benefits than just that.

Read the procedures above on how to use rambutan leaves as a herbal medicine to cure your health conditions.

IPIL-IPIL LEAVES

HEALTH BENEFITS

Diabetes
Dewormer
Prevent insomnia
Cancer
Pain releiver
Eczema
Dandruff
Reduces mentrual pain
Pregnancy control
Improving blood circulation
Produce smooth skin
Removing acne and its scars


PROPERTIES

Chemopreventive
anti-proliferative
antihelmintic
antidiabetic
antibacterial
antidiabetic
anti-oxidant


STEP BY STEP GUIDES ON HOW TO MAKE IPIL IPIL LEAVES TEA

Step 1: Take 20 pieces of ipil ipil leaves and wash them thorougly with clean water

Step 2: Put the ipil ipil leaves in a boiling pot and pour 1 liter of water

Step 3: Boil the ipil ipil leaves for 10-15 minutes

Step 4: After boiling the ipil ipil leaves, immediately remove the leaves or immediately pour the made tea into a container

Step 5: Let it cool the made tea before drinking and enjoy the benefits to our body.


The Ipil-ipil tree is very abundant in tropical countries such as Thailand and the Philippines. Due it its abundance and resilient nature, Ipil-ipil tree has been described as “conflict tree”. On a brighter note, this tree is proven to cure various digestive illnesses.
Leucaena leucocephala or Ipil-ipil tree is considered as “Miracle Tree” because of its health benefits including its proven and effective way of deworming patients suffering from roundworms, flukes and tapeworms infesting inside their body.

Ipil-ipil is a small tree growing up 8 meters high. Leaves are compound, 15 to 25 centimeters long, with hairy rachis. Pinnae are 8 to 16, and 5 to 8 centimeters long. Leaflets are 20 to 30, linear oblong, and 7 to 12 millimeters long. Heads are solitary, at the axils of the leaves, long-peduncled, globose, and 2 to 5 centimeters in diameter, with many flowers. Flowers are whitish, in dense globule heads, 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter. Fruit is an oblong or linear pod, strap-shaped, 12 to 18 centimeters long, 1.4 to 2 centimeters wide, papery, green turning to brown and splitting open along two edges when mature, and several fruits developing from each flower head. Each pod contains 15 to 25 elliptic, compressed, shining, brown seeds, each 5 to 8 millimeters long, 3 to 5 millimeters wide.

Side effect of ipil ipil leaves
There is not any side effect caused by consuming ipil ipil leaves. However, we may not know if it reacts differently in every kinds of human’s body. In addition, for people who suffers allergy from peanuts better avoid consuming ipil ipil. If you are having any medication treatment better always discuss with your doctor if you consider to consume ipil ipil for we might not guarantee whether it will react badly to your medication or not.

That’s all about the healthy benefit of ipil ipil leaves toward our body. Besides all of the health benefits of ipil ipil leaves above, there are still many benefits that it provided. To know the real benefits of this plant, I suggest you to try it by yourself and encourage the other to try consuming it if you get the positive impact from it. Keep reading and stay healthy!

BALBAS PUSA

HEALTH BENEFITS

Kidney stone
Liver and Bladder problem
Urinary tract infection
Renal inflammation
Dysuria
Toothache
Body pain
Fever
Lower blood presure level
Lower cholesterol level
Rheumatism and gout
Diabetes
Asthma
Cough


PROPERTIES

Anti-allergic
Anti-hypertensive
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-oxidant


STEP BY STEP GUIDES ON HOW TO MAKE BALBAS PUSA LEAVES TEA

Step 1: Take 15-20 pieces of balbas pusa leaves and wash them thorougly with clean water

Step 2: Put the balbas pusa leaves in a boiling pot and pour 1 liter of water

Step 3: Boil the balbas pusa leaves for 10-15 minutes

Step 4: After boiling the balbas pusa leaves, immediately remove the leaves or immediately pour the made tea into a container

Step 5: Let it cool the made tea before drinking and enjoy the benefits to our body.

Note: Drink balbas pusa tea 3 glasses in a day.


Cat's whisker or Balbas pusa (Orthosiphon aristatus) is a tropical herbaceous perennial plant that is native in Southeast Asia usually found in China, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand and even in Australia. Balbas pusa, commonly referred to as Java tea is a herb used as medicine for many centuries.

Orthosiphon aristatus (balbas pusa) is an erect, slender shrub that can grow 1-2 meters in height. The leaves are semi-deciduous, light to dark green in color and are borne in distant pairs that is about 5-10 cm long.. The stalk is reddish-brown, that is slightly puberulent. The flowers forms a pagoda like shaped with 5-6 cm long stamens that resembles a cat’s whiskers, hence the name 'balbas pusa' in tagalog and 'cat's whisker' in english. The color of the flowers varies from white to purplish.

Warnings and Side Effects
Java tea or balbas pusa tea has no known and reported contra indications and side effects with other drugs. While it is generally safe to take java tea or balbas pusa tea, prolonged intake is discourage as this may cause low sodium serum in the body.

Pregnancy and Breast feeding. There are no sufficient studies made to determine the side effects of java tea (balbas pusa tea) taken in medicinal amounts to infants and babies. Stay on the safe side, avoid taking balbas pusa in herbal medicine dosages when pregnant and while breast feeding

Allergies. In rare cases, the herb has caused allergic side effects.

Fluid retention. Don’t use java tea as “irrigation therapy” when fluid retention or edema is due to kidney or heart related problems.

DAMONG MARIA

(Mugwort)

HEALTH BENEFITS

Fever
Dewormer
Eczema
Scabies
Dysmenorrhea
Amenorrhea/menstrual pain
Diabetes
Reduce stress and anxiety
Weight lose
Detoxify the body
Osteoporosis
Liver aid
Stomachache
Cancer
Constipation


PROPERTIES

Antimicrobial
anti-oxidant
anticonvulsant
hepatoprotective


STEP BY STEP GUIDES ON HOW TO MAKE MANGO LEAVES TEA

Step 1: Take 10-15 pieces of damong maria leaves and wash them thorougly with clean water

Step 2: Put the damong maria leaves in a boiling pot and pour 1 liter of water

Step 3: Boil the damong maria leaves for 10-15 minutes

Step 4: After boiling the damong maria leaves, immediately remove the leaves or immediately pour the made tea into a container

Step 5: Let it cool the made tea before drinking and enjoy the benefits to our body.



Damong-maria is an erect perennial herb, hairy, aromatic, rank smelling, often half-woody, growing to a height of 1 meter or less. Stems are leafy and branched. Leaves are pinnately lobed, 5 to 14 centimeters long, hairy, gray beneath, with nearly smooth above. Flowering heads are numerous, ovoid, 3 to 4 millimeters long, occurring in large numbers in spikelike, ascending, and branched inflorescences.

This herb is usually known as "Motherwort" or "Maiden wort" in English. It comes with the scientific name Artemisia Vulgaris. It typically occurs in all warm countries including Philippines, from the Bataan Island and northern Luzon to Mindanao. Damong maria is often found in and about towns at low and medium altitudes. It is frequently planted and stablished around the houses and gardens and open places.

Furthermore, this plant is also benificial to our health. In fact, study of crude extract yielded alkanoids, cournarins, flavonoids, saponins, sterols, tannins, and terpenes. This plant is considered effective as antimicrobial, anticonvulsant, hepatoprotective, and anti-oxidant. However, though it has a lot of herbal properties, this plant should not be use by pregnant women.


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MANGO LEAVES

HEALTH BENEFITS

Diabetes
Overall heart health
Lower blood pressure level
Reduce stress and anxiety
Varicose veins
Helps improve digestion
Detoxify entire body
Sore throat
Hiccups
Improves eye health
Treats gall and kidney stones
Cures respiratory problems
Heals burns


PROPERTIES

Anti-oxidant
anti-microbial



STEP BY STEP GUIDES ON HOW TO MAKE MANGO LEAVES TEA

Step 1: Take 10 pieces of mango leaves and wash them thorougly with clean water

Step 2: Put the mango leaves in a boiling pot and pour 1 liter of water

Step 3: Boil the mango leaves for 10-15 minutes

Step 4: After boiling the mango leaves, immediately remove the leaves or immediately pour the made tea into a container

Step 5: Let it cool the made tea before drinking and enjoy the benefits to our body.


Mango, the quintessential summer fruit, is perfect for desserts. But who would have imagined that a sweet, juicy and delicious fruit like mango can also be a healthy superfood? Well, it’s true. It is rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin C and minerals like copper, potassium and magnesium. Not only this, mango leaves which you may often discard can actually work as a great herbal medicine. Mango leaves are full of healing and medicinal properties. Benefits of mango leaves are so varied and extensive that they are given immense importance in eastern medicine too. They are reddish or purplish when tender and new, and grow into a dark green color and have a pale underside.

These leaves are fleshy and shiny with a sharp tip containing vitamins C, B and A. They are also rich in various other nutrients. These leaves have powerful antioxidant properties as they have a high content of flavonoids and phenols. They can be boiled in water to make a decoction or can be consumed in powdered form. In South East Asia, the tender leaves of the mango tree are cooked and eaten. Also for medicinal purposes young leaves should be used. But one has to be careful.

The antioxidant and antimicrobial properties of mango leave can help treat various ailments effectively.

TSAANG GUBAT

(Carmona Retusa)

HEALTH BENEFITS

treating diarrhea
 diabetes
 scabies
 eczema
 gastroenteritis
 inflammation
 wounds



PROPERTIES

Anti-allergic
Anti-inflammatory
Analgesic
Anti-diarrheal
Anti-bacterial
Anti-mutagenic
Anti-tumor
Anti-proliferative
Anti-angiogenic
Anti-oxidant



PROCEDURES

Take tsaang gubat leaves, wash them thoroughly, put in the boiling put with 1 liter of water then boil for 20-30 minutes. Let it cool before drinking.


The Philippines is rich with medicinal and herbal plants which are helpful and effective in treating various conditions, and one of them is Tsaang Gubat or Wild Tea.

Tsaang Gubat is approved and endorsed by the Department of Health because it is proven to be safe for use. Most of the time, this plant is being used to cure skin diseases and stomach problems. It is a shrub that can be typically found not only in the Philippines but also in India and Sri Lanka, and is also becoming more popular as an ornamental plant in Japan and China.

This herb is abundant in the country and it is just a small tree which only grows between 1 to 5 meters. It has been traditionally used as a disinfectant wash during child birth, and even used to clean teeth and prevent tooth decay because it contains fluoride. It is also helpful in treating diarrhea, diabetes, scabies, eczema, gastroenteritis, inflammation, wounds and many others.

Recent studies have shown that tsaang gubat can also be used to fight allergies, together with sambong and lagundi. It also has antibacterial properties based on the scientific research.

If you think you can benefit from the plant and you’d like to know where it can be found, you won’t even have to search for it from afar because these plants can just thrive in the wild. You can also check with your local horticulturist if you can buy these plants from them. If you do not want to drink the juice from its boiled leaves, you can also opt for the ones in the form of capsules, tea bags and tablets.