Philippines Medicinal Herbal Plants and its Uses

What is medicinal plant? These are the plants that can help us to heal disease.

In the Philippines there are a lot of medicinal plants that can be found. They assure that it is safe and effective. The Department of Health in the Philippines approved these samples of medicinal plants.

There are many kinds of medicinal plants in the Philippines that can be used for different illnesses.

Here are the usually used medicinal plants: Medical researchers discovered that;

Ampalaya (bitter gourd/ melon) (scientific name momordica charantia) it is used to heal diabetes and now for HIV. Ampalaya according to the research of its effectiveness it has been revealed to be effective to cure diabetes because it can enhance the production of beta cells in the pancreas and it can develop the body’s ability to produce insulin. Ampalaya is said to be one of the most excellent medicinal plant in the Philippines.

 Tanglad (lemon grass) is used for herbal teas and herbal soaps. It is identified to treat digestion, for stomach troubles and to decrease fever. Lemon Grass from Africa and Asia is used for cuisine, therapeutic and cosmetics. Its leaves are used for food flavoring for fish and poultry. Its natural oil is for their medicinal uses.

Pinya (Pineapple), its juice leaves is good for intestinal animal parasite. Ripe fruit is good for dyspepsia and digestion. The juice of the ripe fruit is good for urine flow, digestion and cooling. Pinya’s nutritional purposes it is a good source of calcium, iron, Vitamin A, B, and C.

Another kind of “power herb” in the Philippines is called luya (ginger) it is known to be a very effective medicinal herbal plant. Luya can sooth the stomach, digestion, cramping and facilitates breakdown of food in the stomach. It is also effective to for nausea, vomiting and it is also known to treat heart disease, migraines, stroke, cough, dizziness, fever, viral infections and kidney stones.

Lagundi is also common in the Philippines. Its root is known to treat variety of diseases: dyspepsia, rheumatism and worms. Its flower is used for diarrhea, cholera, fever, and liver problems. Its leaves are used for coughs and asthmas.

Banaba is one more kind of medicinal plant in the Philippines. Its flower, bark and leaves can facilitate bowel movements. Roots are useful for variety of stomach problems. It has the ability to lower the blood pressure. Decocions of leaves and flower can be used for fever.

Bayabas(Guava), its bark is used for diarrhea of the children. The fruit is good for the high blood pressure, diabetes and asthma. Bayabas is known to have the best concentration of vitamin C in the Philippines.Oregano its juice can treat dyspepsia, asthmas, cough and bronchitis.

 Doctors in the Philippines prescribed the sambong the dissolution of kidney stones. It is used for tea and can be used for coughs. Sambong is the common used medicinal plant in the Philippines.

There are also medicinal plants used by Filipinos to treat cough and sore throats.

Cough is cause by the respiratory tract infection and it can be cause by choking, smoking, asthmas and air pollution.

The most regular herbal plant used for coughs in the Philippines is lagundi. Lagundi is good for asthmas also.  Lagundi’s other parts are also functional for other kinds of ailments.

Oregano is an herbal plant that also excellent for treating cough. It contains the compounds anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and antiviral properties. Its leaves should be boiled and let the person with cough drink the extract.

Mansanilya is also helpful for coughs, to treat or avoid coughs. Used the flower and boiled the chopped dried leaves and flower. ½ cup a day every four hours.

Kantutay roots are used for tuberculosis coughs. Boil one cup of chopped fresh leaves and flowers in 2 glasses of water for 15 minutes. ½ cup three times a day

Alagaw is a tree that can be found in the Philippines. It is already considered as a drug by Filipinos. It is effective for loosen phlegm and relieve coughs. Alagaw also benefits to tuberculosis and headaches. Alagaw is another great herbal medicine in the Philippines to relief coughs and tuberculosis.

There’s nothing to lose if we try using alternative medicine. It is proven by health departments that it is safe and effective. No harmful side effects. It can also save money, because buying modern medicine is costly.

Where are the medical clinics? Cheers to Volunteers

In our world, we have many countries, regions, provinces and we also have different people, woman, man and children.   People are suffering some sickness or disease. There is the different lifestyles and standard every citizen of a one country. There are also fortunate and unfortunate in having good life. There are rich and there are also people what to eat is their everyday problem.

They are also need medical attentions. Every country with their provinces, industrialized or not. There should be medical clinics near to every region for them to give residents medical care. For their vaccines for babies, to have monthly check ups.

Every people, individual or citizens have the right to have medical assistant. Barrios in every country have problems for that issue. There should a lot funds for building medical clinics.

There are healthcares organizations in every place in the world. They are one who helps to build medical clinics for the use of the every individual. Medical clinics should have medical doctors, medicines and complete equipments to be used for every emergency. Healthcare providers are helping unfortunate people to have a good health and to be healthy. We should be knowledgeable about what’s happening in our medical needs. Many people are suffering because of having diseases, mothers are giving birth to their child just in their houses, others die in infections and all of that is happening because of not focusing in the medical needs of their people.

In every medical clinic in barrios there are also wonderful volunteers that are willing to help.

A lot of people in a community have a good heart. They are the one who is voluntarily joining some community services and rescues. People are volunteering to fight fire, to be firefighters. Also people are volunteering for some community services like medical missions, feeding programs, teaching street children and rescuing abuse animals.

Volunteers in healthcares are people who love to help people to have a good health. They are the one who knows the true meaning of helping. They can make other people happy in just helping them. They are doing it even without salaries. It is from their heart.

Medical missions are all important because it is the only chance for the people in the barrios to have their medical needs. Medical missions are so helpful for the people who are sick. Medical missions can reach people in different places who are not capable in going to hospitals. People in the barrios are also taught with different healthy tips. For mothers they are taught how to take good care of their children.

Volunteers are gifted to have a golden heart. They are willing to sacrifice their own lives to save others life.  Everyone is capable to help, it just differ from ways how we reach people that we want to help.

Everyone has the chance to help others. It is free. No payments in helping other people then go and try to volunteer. Share your blessings and be happy! Smile!

Crohns Disease

Inflammatory bowel disease or IBD is a group of inflammatory conditions of the colon and small intestines. Its major types are the Crohns disease and Ulcerative colitis. It is an ongoing inflammation in one’s digestive tract.

Crohns disease is also known as regional enteritis, it affect the gastrointestinal tract from the mouth to the anus. Crohns disease is caused interactions between environmental, immunological and bacterial factors.  This causes for some chronic inflammatory problems, it results the immune system to attack our gastrointestinal tract.

Patient can feel pain and the condition that the intestines is empty frequently that results to diarrhea.

Crohns disease affects women and men in the age between 13 years old-30 years old. Smokers’ women or men have the chance to have Crohns disease than the non smokers.  Jewish people have a high risk of having the disease. In Africa they are the least risk to have Crohns disease.

Crohns disease is very difficult to detect. Other symptoms occur with other gastrointestinal disorders. Having test to detect Crohns takes a lot of questioning because it’s important for the diagnosis of the disease. Your health care provider is going to conduct some interviews, about your symptoms, medical problems you had in the past, if you undergo some surgeries too, medications you’re taking and some family history, your lifestyle and your habits.

 It gives symptoms like abdominal pain, diarrhea (which may be bloody if its inflammation is at its worst), vomiting can be continuous, weight loss and there are some symptoms outside the gastrointestinal tract like the skin rashes, arthritis, eye inflammation, tiredness and lack of concentration. Its symptoms are same with IBS or Irritable Bowel Movements. Fever, weight loss, bloating, anal pain, skin lesions and joint pain are some basic signs of this disease.

Crohns disease also affects the other organs of the body. It affects the skin, blood and the intestines. Crohns disease can cause neurological complications such as headache, seizure, stroke, and depressions. Crohns patients also can have small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome.

Crohns disease can cause bowel problems.  Crohns disease can be a problem for pregnant mothers because there are medications by the medical doctors that can cause adverse for the fetus or the mother. Inflammation may make scar tissue that builds up inside the intestine to make stricture. A stricture is a narrowed passageway for the food that slowing the movement through the intestine that cause pain and cramps.

Treating Crohns disease is always start with medication. The truth is that there is “NO CURE” for this disease.  Other therapy and with one or more medications can treat the early stage of Crohns disease.  There are also medications to relieve pain and symptoms. These are the common drugs prescribed by doctors are corticosteroids, like methyl prednisone, prednisone and other anti- inflammatory medicines.

In the late diagnosed of having Crohns disease, surgery is recommended. Surgery is necessary when complications occur. Complications such as blockage of the bowel, significant bleeding and perforation of the intestines needed surgery. Not all Crohns disease patients are recommended to undergo surgery. This decision is needed o be consulted to their attending physicians.

Celebrities Switching to Alternative Therapies

Nowadays, we are all familiar about the different alternative therapies for different illnesses. Alternative therapy is used to describe a wide range of treatments, and not available from the conventional medical doctors.

The difference between conventional treatments and alternative therapies is that conventional treatments include surgeries, chemotherapies and using of radiation.  In the other side alternative therapy is all about nutritional supplements, change in lifestyle, detoxification, enzymes, stress control, prevention, emotional healing, spiritual connections, tumor targeting and biofeedback.

Nutritional supplements it boosts the immune system to fight against any disease and increase the natural mechanism o remove tumors for cancers. Enzymes it is used for producing the protective coating of the cancer cells. Detoxification eliminates substances that burdening the immune system. Emotional healing for removing all toxic emotions it is in the form of counseling, deep breathing or bodywork. Tumor targeting reduces the tumors size. Changing in life style it is where the individual will be thought some life changing advices to live. Stress control it where minimizes the stress of an individual. Spiritual connection is the part that the individual is reconnecting to the reasons that they need to live.

Alternative medicine  is now popular globally. It is already used by people from different countries. Different nations have their government to give some health benefits and health privileges. There are also countries which don’t have health insurance and the worse is that there are no medical attentions for different tribes in their community.

Alternative medicine is preferred by a person who’s not capable of going to hospitals because of financial problems, distant hospital locations and who believes in the power of using alternative medications.

Using of alternative medicines solves the problems of many people. There are people who are afraid of the side effects of using modern medicines. There are also people who want the natural methods for treating health conditions because they assure that there are no bad side effects that can increase the risk of the disease. Sometimes side effects can affect other ailments from mild to severe and the last is to death.


Alternative therapies are now embraced by famous people. There are famous celebrities who preferred to use alternative therapies. Therapies such as Acupuncture, reflexology, hypnotherapy, yoga, massage.

Acupuncture it is where they are using fine needles for specific points on the body to stimulate, restore and regulate the flow of the vital energy and restores a healthy balance. Acupuncture is a 2000 year old Chinese medicine. It is commonly known to be used to relieve pain, but today it is also known to aid people with osteoarthritis, asthmas, stroke conditions and children.

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Steve Jobs, a famous, genius and inspiration of many people, the founder and CEO of Apple Incorporated.  Jobs is diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer in the year 2003. Jobs tried acupuncture and other herbal remedies he found in the internet. People are saying that alternative therapy didn’t save him. The truth is that person with pancreatic cancer can live less than a year with an average prognosis. Jobs lived 8 years after he is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Other famous celebrities using acupuncture are NBA star Grant Hill, Mariah Carey, James Hetfield and Jennifer Lopez.

Reflexology is a physical act that gives pressure to a certain parts such as in the feet, hands, ears with different finger techniques. Every specific point in the hands, feet and ears corresponds to the different organs in our body. Reflexology is known to treat different health conditions. It treats diabetes, allergies and high blood pressure. It helps person to relax, it reduces pain, benefit mental care, improves blood flow and eases pregnancy effects to woman. Celebrities who use reflexology are Jackie Chan, James Hetfield and Regis Phillbin. Reflexology is from Egypt.

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Hypnotherapy uses hypnotic states that allow changes in the memory and brain perception. Hypnotherapy guided relaxation, focus and concentration. Hypnosis allowed someone to feel painful feelings and also blocks pain. It heals sleeping problems, fears, phobias, anxiety, stress, depression and traumas. It is also the best way to quit someone from smoking. Hypnotherapy is not dangerous but the risk is that there can be false memory created.  Matt Damon, Jessica Alba, Sara Feruson and Ellen DeGeneres are some of the celebrities who use Hypnotherapy.

There are other ways for alternative therapies. Acupressure it is using of fingers with pressure to specific points to relieve stress and tension. Aromatherapy is using of essential oils to treat emotion disorders and anxiety. Auto –urine therapy it comes from yoga and it’s the use of your own urine as food, medicine and immune system booster and it’s sometimes called as “your own doctor”.

There are hundreds of different alternative therapies in practice globally. Using of Alternative therapies is safe and cost inexpensive.  Ask advice from therapies practitioners.

Colors! The Representation of One’s Personality

Colors give us light. It is giving us happiness. It gives us life.

It’s true that, without color earth is dead. There’s no happiness. Joy will never exist. Without color we cannot appreciate things that we see. Without color, our environment, our trees, mountains, oceans, flowers and also things around us is dull. I think its hard to think without colors, because colors have different meanings and energy.

There are primary, secondary and tertiary colors.

Primary colors are yellow, blue and red.

 The shade of yellow represents pure, brightness, like our sunny sun. Yellow color gives us energy, joy, and happiness. It symbolizes wisdom. Intellectual people love yellow. Wearing yellow clothes in your office can help clear minds, improves memory and helps in decision making. In every country, yellow is used in school buses, the reason behind that is, yellow buses gets more attention than the other color. It is also more visible in our vision that red. Yellow is my favorite color because it gives energy, life, happiness in me.

The shade of blue is the color of sky, heaven, ocean; it is the color of inspiration and calm, spirituality and sincerity. It is the color good for homes and used for babies. Artists use blue to show perspectives. Blue is used for calming and for relaxation. It’s like a therapy. Wear blue if you want to communicate to others. Write on a blue paper if you want help in remembering speeches and information.

The shade of red is the color of warm, passion, lust, it is associated with heat and top of the males pick. In Chine, red brings prosperity, wealth and happiness. They wear red bridal gowns and their doors are painted with red color. It is the color of blood, and it symbolizes life and vitality. Wearing of red clothes can boost your confidence if you have interviews and presentations. It increases sex appeal.

Secondary colors are the mixing of two primary colors.

Green

The shade of green represents nature, life, fertility; it is the color of balance, learning, growth and harmony. It symbolizes well-being and self-respect. Green is known for healing eyes. Eat green raw food its good for the health. Wear green clothes, to overcome the feeling of losing hope.

                   Violet

The shade of violet is used if you are seeking for spiritual fulfillment, purpose. It is good to used in meditation. Violet is preferred by artists. Violet symbolizes magic, mystery and royalty. Wear violet if you want to promote imagination and magic.

                   Orange

The shade of orange is said to increase the craving for food, it is a healing color, and it means vitality and endurance. People who love orange are sincere and thoughtful. Wear orange clothes to bring shock and balance your emotions.

There is another group of colors. They are the neutral colors, such as the black, white and gray because they appear to be without color.

Black

The shade of black is very elegant and formal. It symbolizes death in other culture and some believe it is lucky because it is the color of soil which gives life. It is not a color. Don’t wear black in noon if you are going outside because black absorbs all kinds of light and the sun light.

White

The shade of white represents purity, openness and truth, it means kindness. Brides in many countries wear white because it symbolizes virginity. Other countries wear white at funerals. Like the black, white is not a color. Wear white if you want to present wholesomeness and surround with white if you want to refresh your mind.

                         Gray

Lastly, the shade of gray, it is the true color of neutral. It represents sorrow; Americans associate it with friendship, emptiness, emotion. It symbolizes security and maturity.

Tertiary colors are the combination of one primary color and one secondary color. There are six colors; red-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, yellow-orange, red-violet and blue-violet.

There is a color wheel. It is illustrative color hues in a circle that shows relationships between primary and secondary colors. Gray is mostly worn in business world.

Rainbow is the example of color presentation. Rainbow is consisting various colors such as the colors of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and violet.

Colors are also used for some therapies, self improvement, mental care and meditation.

LSS “Music Being Stuck in One’s Head”

The truth is, everyone has experienced what last song syndrome is. Last song syndrome is also known to be the earworm. Earworm is a phrase or part of the song stuck to your mind, even the song is not playing anymore but you can still play it in your mind.

Every one of us have heard a song and some part of the like the chorus got stuck to our mind. Even the last song you have heard before leaving your car. In your entire journey, the part of the song is still there and still playing. There are ways how you sing the song, it’s like whistling the tune of the song, humming the song because you’re not yet familiar to the lyrics and lastly, you are going to search for the lyrics and at the end you going to sing the song with the lyrics, you can sing the song completely.

We get Last song syndrome, in places where there is music. Riding a bus, a taxi, in your own car, going to disco bars, concerts, and if you are totally amazed by the song it will be stuck to your mind for awhile. There are chances like you sing the song the whole. Everybody around you is also singing the song. In a classroom, if you sing the song repeatedly, for even 8 minutes, after the class your classmates are going to sing the song with you. That’s the truth behind that.

Music is loved by everybody. It helps someone to relief stress and forgets problems for a meanwhile. Music is also a therapy.  Music is used as an alternative therapy, its like do it yourself therapy because you’re just going to listen to your song. Many people believe without music, there’s no life. No happiness and no joy will ever exist. Our earth will be boring and problems are going to eat you already because you cannot forget it.

There is a situation like this. You heard a song played in the bus that you really hate and you think the song is not cool, but if you hear in repeatedly, afterwards, you’re going to hum or sing the song, and you’re going to hate yourself and its happening to someone.

Personally, I think in my everyday life I’m always a victim of last song syndrome. Back to the past I had the worse experience of having LSS. I heard the song “firework” by Katy Perry from the laptop of my dorm mate. I started copying the song to my phone and then I started to listen to the song every time. When I woke up in the morning, when its break time and before going to sleep. It’s like if the singer is with me, she’ll just hit me and maybe she’ll got a hoarse voice. But the time has come when I lost interest to the song, at the end of the day I have a new favorite song but with the same singer. I started to love the singer Katy Perry from then on until today. She’s great!  My favorite song also helps me with my sleeping habits, when I’m listening to it, I felt more relax and I didn’t notice that I’m already asleep.

This phenomenon is common to women and men. It sometimes occurs if someone is stressed, tired, depressed and lonely. It helps them to gain energy again.

You? Are you one of the victims of Earworm? Share your story.

Best Friend Forever and Ever. Hugs and Kisses!

In All of us, once in our life we badly need someone to talk to, to cry on their shoulders, and ask advices for a difficult situations and decisions. They are what we call, best friends. They are great person always there to guide us, supports us in everything we do, a best friend protect us from people that harmful and can hurt us.

Best friends are the one who is there for you, in sickness, success, happiness and in the worse situations you are going to have. Best friends are always there in every special moment in your life. Every occasions, celebrations and victories they are there for you, they are two times happier than you if you have succeed in life and found all what you are looking for.

 Best friends are just a call or one text from you. They will not hesitate to go in your house even in the middle of the night. They are always there to listen to your dramas in life. They are listening to your stories even if you already told them the last time.

 Once in our life we did some mistakes and bad deeds. We need a friend that is going to supports us in the paths we are going to walk. A best friend will never back stab you.


 Best friends are one soul dwelling into 2 different bodies. They are the friends send by angels. Being best friends is sharing difficulties in life, happiness, secrets and private things in your life and family. They are going to listen but they will not tell it to anyone. They will keep is as theirs secrets, too. Even you don't tell them not tell it to anyone.

 Does your best friend have the qualities above? Or they don't? Even if they don't, it doesn't mean that they are not true best friends. In real, everyone has the way how to show their love for you. They have different attitudes and beliefs that we need to know. In my own experiences, in having different best friends in my high school and college days they have different personalities I encountered. At the end, there is someone who is really important in my life, someone I can lean on. To tell honestly that she is different from the above qualities, I still want her to be my best friend.

Every best friend has their names for each other, like best, bezzy, sissy, men and for me we have "angel", I call her angel and she calls me angel too, because we believe that we are both angels from heaven. They say that different personalities for best friends are better that to have than the same personalities, but there is an advantage and disadvantage. The good part is that you both discover new things from each other, and sometimes the bad part is that you have to quarrel just to decide in a particular situations, like what to buy, what to eat, stuffs like that.

 Sharing of stories, love life, secrets, favorites and likes are common to best friends. Crying if there's a problem and laughs a lot even a joke told is not that funny. Laughter is the best medicine, people saying. Laughter therapy is good to relieves pain and removes emotional problems, depressions. It is like an alternative therapy that can help friends to pass through difficulties in their lives.

 There are steps how you can take care of your best friend:

•  Step 1: Respect yourself, 
• Step 2: Trust each other, 
• Step 3: Be Loyal, 
• Step 4: Spend time together,
• Step5: Listen, 
• Step6: Care for each other and lastly 
• : Be realistic.

 Lesson learned: Don't expect so much from your best friends, because they cannot always help and be there for you. Don't expect them to say the words you want to hear. If you expect too much from them, there will be disappointments in your part if they did't do want you want. This will cause a fight or you won't feel so good. Be nice and don't text or call them just to say that they are liars.

 But the real point, if you know that you both are not meant to be best friends. At the end, just know how lucky you were to have that great person have part in your life. Just be happy for each other. If you picked other new friend over your best friend, don't just leave her/him stay, never leave them. Friends are treasures, they are priceless and you are so lucky to have the bestest friend in the world. Treasure every friend you are going to have in your life.

 "Best friends accept you and see for who you are, no matter what happen they will do anything just to be by your side."

Knowledge about Cancer

Everyone is afraid of acquiring diseases and dying from them. It is quite normal to have fears from getting sick since our health is at stake. Then, cancer comes in.

What is cancer? Cancer is a disease that no one wants to have or experience. It is a medical condition which involves unregulated cell growth. Cells grow and divide forming malignant tumors. Cancer cells also spread in the bloodstream and into the lymphatic system. Not all tumors are cancerous. They are called benign tumors. These kinds of tumors do not grow uncontrollably.

Common Causes of Cancer

Cancer is caused by abnormal growth and production of cell in our bodies. Different body parts can be affected by cancer. A lot of medical researchers have found different types of cancer into different parts of the body.

There are many reasons for having cancer. Some are caused by bad habits and lifestyle, others are hereditary genes. There are a many things known to increase the risk of developing cancer. Here are some of the usual causes:

·         Excessive use of tobacco products

·         Exposure to radiation

·         Some infections

·         Lack of physical involvement

·         Having poor diet

·         Obesity

·         Exposure to pollution

·         Heredity

It is not easy to have cancer. Patients who have cancer are facing a lot of challenges and emotional stress. They are faced with deep regrets, depression, pain and most especially financial difficulties. These patients need support, love, care and prayers from their friends and family to give them the courage to fight against all the trials of what cancer brings.

The most common cancer types are breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer and liver cancer. Breast cancer is most common among women and has a lesser risk for men unlike prostate cancer. Passive smokers are more prone to develop lung cancer. Patients who have liver cancer undergo dialysis due to their infected liver.

Other common types of cancer are:

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·         Blood cancer or usually known as leukemia and lymphoma

·         Digestive cancer/gastrointestinal cancer

o   Colon cancer

o   Stomach cancer

o   Gallbladder cancer

o   Anal cancer

o   Esophageal cancer

o   Liver cancer

o   Pancreatic cancer

o   Small intestine cancer

o   Rectal cancer

·         Thyroid cancer

·         Eye cancer

·         Gynecologic cancer which affects the reproductive system of female patients

·         Genitourinary cancer usually affects the organs of the male reproductive system

·         Head and neck cancer

·         Skin cancer

Cancer is a deadly disease. A lot of medical doctors advise their patients to undergo a procedure called chemotherapy to kill all cancer cells in the body. In other countries, medical groups are using alternative medicines to cure cancer. But prevention is always better than cure. Live healthy.