These are some examples of Philippine herbal medicines.

1. Herbal
Plants
Greg Aeron Del Mundo
Chelou Mae Cadeliña
Coraima Grapilon
Alexa Oril

2. Herbal Plants

3. Tamarind
(Tamarindus officinalis)
Sampalok is a large tree 12 to 25 m
high, nearly glabrous.
Leaves are evenly pinnate, 6 to 10 centimeters long, with 20 to 4
0 leaflets, rather close
oblong, obtuse, 1 to 2
centimeters long. Racemes are mostly axillary though sometimes
panicled, and reaching
length of 5 to 10 cm.

4. Bilimbi
(Averrhoa bilimbi )
Kamias is a small tree,
growing 5 to 12 meters high. L
eaves are pinnate, 20 to 60 c
m long, with hairy rachis
an
d leaflets. Leaflets are op- posi
te, 10 to 17 pairs, oblong, 5 to
10 centimeters in length. Panic
les growing from the
trunk
and larger branches are hairy,
15 centimeters long or less. Fl
owers are about 1.5 cm long
, and slightly fragrant. Fruit is g
reen and edible,
about 4 ce
ntimeters long,
subcylindric,
or with 5 obs- cure, broad, ro
unded, longi- tudinal lobes.

5. Star Fruit
(Averrhoa carambola)
Balimbing is a small t
ree growing to a height of
6 meters or less. Leaves ar
e pinnate, about 15 cm lon
g. Leaflets are smooth, usu
ally in 5 pairs,
ovate
to ovate-lanceolate, the up
per ones about 5 cm long
and the lower ones small
er. Panicles are small, axill
ary and bell- shaped, 5 to
6 millimeters long. Calyx is
reddish
purple.

6. Wormwood
(Artemisia Vulgaris)
Wormwood is one
of several species in the
genus Artemisia com- m
only known as mug- wor
t although Artemisia
Vulgaris is the species m
ost often called mug-wor
t. This species is al-so
occasionally known as f
elon herb, chrysan-them
um weed and wild wor
mwood. Mugwort is use
d medicinally and as culi
nary herbs.

7. Calamansi
(Citrus mitis Blanco)
Kalamansi is a
s
mooth and slightly spiny pla
nt, growing to a height of 3 t
o 5 meters. Leaflets are elli
ptic to oblong-ellip- tic, 4 to
8 centimeters long. Flowers
are axillary, solitary, rarely in
pairs, white, and short-stal
ked. Fruit is yellow when rip
e, nearly spherical, 2 to 3.5
centimeters diame-ter, 6- to
7-celled, and thin-skinned. T
he skin or peel is green to y
ellowish green or yellow, loo
sely adhering to the flesh.

8. Ginger
(Amomum zingiber)
Ginger is an erect,
smooth plant arising from th
ickened, very aromatic roo
tstocks. Leafy stems are 0.4
to 1 meter high. Leaves are
distichous, lanceolate to lin
ear-lanceolate, 15 to 25 cen
timeters long, and 2 centime
ters wide or less. Spike is o
void to ellipsoid, about 5 cen
timeters long. Bracts are ov
ate, cuspidate, about 2.5 ce
ntimeters long, and pale gre
en. Calyx is 1 centimeter lo
ng or some- what less.

9. Mango
(Mangifera indica)
Mango is a large tree
with a dense and spreading
crown. Leaves are oblong t
o oblong-lanceolate, 10 to 3
0 centimeters long. The flo
wers are yellow, small, 3 to
4 millimeters long,
borne
on erect and hairy panicles
, which as as often as long a
s the leaves. The fruit is a d
rupe, of varying shades of y
ellow, fleshy, oblong-ovoid
, 10 to 15
centimeters lon
g, and
slightly compress
ed.

10. Guava
(Psidium guajava)
Guava is a somewhat
hairy plant reaching a
he
ight of 8 meters. Young bran
ches are 4-angled.
Leave
s are opposite, ob- long to
elliptic, and 1 to 5 centimete
rs long, the apex being point
ed, and the base usually r
ounded.
Peduncles are
1 to 3-flo- wered. Flowers a
re white, 3 to 3.5 centimeter
s across, with in-curved pet
als, co- ming out solitary or t
wo to three in the leaf axils.

11. Garlic
(Allium sativum)
Garlic is a low
h
erb, 30 to 60 cm
hig
h. True stem is
much
reduced. Bulbs are bro
adly ovoid, 2 to 4 cm in
diameter, con-sisting of
several,
densely cr
owded, an- gular and tr
uncated tu-bers. Leaves
are linear and flat.

12. Star Apple
(Chrysophyllum cainito)
Caimito is a tree with a
spreading crown, growing to a
height of 15 meters. Bran- che
s are numerous and slen-der, t
he young tips are cop- per-col
ored and covered with appress
ed hairs. Leaves are leathery
, ovate or oblong, 7.5 to 13 ce
ntimeters long, poin-ted at the
tip, blunt or rounded at the bas
e and covered underneath wit
h silky, goldenbrown, soft hairs
. Flowers are purplish-white, s
mall and
clustered in the ax
ils of leaves with 5 sepals, and
a tubular corolla with 5 lobes.