Mangosteen

For stomach ache

Part of Fruit Used: Peelings (Chopped)

Amount of Chopped Peelings Used:

Dried Peelings Fresh Peelings

Adult - 1 table spoonful ---- 1 table spoonful

For children 7-12 years old, use 1/2 of the dose recommended for adults.

Preparation and Procedure:

1. Chop enough mangosteen peelings to fill in recommended amount to use.
2. Put the recommended amount of chopped peelings with a glass of water in a boiler.
3. Boil for 15 minutes, or until the water has been reduced to half its volume ( caused by evaporation).
4. Cool and drain before drinking.

Balimbing

Balimbing ( Averrhoa carambula)the fruit acts agaist dysentery. The balimbing leaves are chrushed and applied as a forehead compress for relief of headache.

Solution formed from the powdered seeds of balimbing is given as remedy for jaundice. Boiling water is poured over the balimbing seeds. The solution or infusion formed is strained and cooled before using. The infusion maybe flavored with sugar and drank as a beverage.

Boiling water is poured over the balimbing seeds. The solution or infusion formed is strained and cooled before using. Use large doses. The powdered seeds of balimbing taken with water relieves or eases pain in asthma.

Eggplant

The eggplant is one of the most popular vegetable crops in the Philippines. It is grown in almost all backyards and school gardens in the country.

The native eggplants bear small, round or elongated fruits. Among the widely grown native varieties are Negros Purple. Pampanga Purple and Simmeda. Among the foreign varieties are Black Beauty and Golden Gate. They bear longer and more fleshy fruits.

The fruits are fairly good sources of calcium,phosphorus and iron. The fruits are also a good source of vitamin B.

The leaves are employed to cure piles. The ashes of the fruit are prescribed for use in a dry, hot poultice on hemonorrhoids.

Malunggay

The malunggay is a small vegetable tree which grows to height of about 8 meters, more or less. The leaves which are pinnate in form, the white flowers and the long pendulous young pods and seeds are edible.

Nutrient Contents of Malunggay:

Just 1/3 cup of cooked malunggay leaves gives children their daily requirements for:

Iron - to build maintain the blood supply and prevent anemia;

Calcium - for healthy bones and teeth;

Vitamin A - to give good vision, healthy skin,proper growth and resistance to infections;

Vitamin B - to stimulate growth and appetite; to prevent skin troubles, beri-beri and anemia;

Vitamin C - to help develop health tissues, teeth and gums.

Malunggay tree may be propagated by stem cuttings or by seeds. Propagation by mature stem cuttings is preferable to propagation by seeds because the planted stems grow much faster.

Duhat

The duhat fruit is small, oval or elliptic in shape. It is about two centimeters long, dark purple or nearly black in color. Duhat tree is grown for its edible fruits.

The fruit is often made into jelly. The beverage made from duhat juice offers commercial possibilities. The trunk yield a soft timber of good quality which is used for interior decoction. The leaves are pounded and heated and applied on skin irritations.

Varieties of Duhat

There are only two known varieties of duhat grown in the country. They are the seeded “Kinalabao” and the seedless type. Kinalabao is commonly grown in most parts of the country, while the seedless type is rarely grown because it produces small fruits.

Propagation and Harvesting

Duhat can be propagated sexually by seeds and asexually by budding, grafting, inarching and marcotting.

Duhat fruits can be harvested seven to eight years from planting time. Its fruiting season is from April to June. The fruit is fully ripe when the purplish-red color changes to dark purple or black

Cassava

Cassava is an erect, shrubby plant growing to height of about i meter to 3 meters. It bears stout,elongated, fleshy edible roots. This plant is classified under root crop. Its small fruits are in the form of ovoid capsules.

Medicinal Value of Cassava

* For relief of headache or fever apply a head compress of pounded cassava leaves.

* Solution formed by boiling the bark of the stem of the cassava plant will help expel intestinal worms and will also serves as medicine of rheumatism.

Economic and Nutritive Values of Cassava

* The cassava tuber is boiled and eaten, with or without sugar.

* The tuber is a good source of gapleck and sago. From gapleck, starch is manufactures which is them made into flour and used in the preparation of biscuits, cookies and bread. Sago is used in the preparation of "guinta-an," a native delicacy.

There are two varieties of cassava- the sweet and the bitter.Both varieties contain a certain percentage of hydrocyanic compound, a kind of poison in the bark and flesh of the plant. Sweet cassava has a low percentage of the poison. The better kind has 1.012 to 0.37 percent in the edible portion. This hydrocyanic compound disappears or is eliminated during the boiling process.

In harvesting, dig the soil carefully around the roots of the plants with a crowbar or pointed bamboo stick when the soil is soft.Cut the top parts of the cassava stems first, leaving the stumps which should them the pulled to haul the storage roots from the soil.

Black Pepper

Black Pepper is a perennial vine crop with a productive life of fifteen to twenty years or more. It is easy to grow black pepper. There is only one variety and several native strains of black pepper cultivated in the country.

The bushy black pepper bears fruit much earlier, usually as early as six months after planting.The seed - growth type, on the other hand,starts flowering after five to six years. That is why it is used only for breeding purposes.

Economic Value Of Black Pepper

* Black Pepper is the most widely used spice. The dried berries of black papper called Peppercorns are used as the major condiment in several food preparation.

* Peppercorns give aroma and flavor to food.

Medicinal Value Of Black Pepper

* The berriies are used externally as a rubefacient ( an externally skin application)in baldness and skin diseases.

* The decoction (solution caused by boiling the berries in water), when taken internally is used for dyspepsia, cough and intermittent fever.

* A water infusion of the corons( peppercorns) is used as a gargle in various infections in the throat.

* The roots are boiled in water and the solution is used as tonic, stimulant, cordial and anthelmintic ( expels intestinal worms).


The Black pepper may be propagated by waterspouts and runner stems. Waterspouts are succulent branches which arise from the main stem of primary branches.

Chico

Chico is a many-branched tree reaching a height of about 8 feet, more or less.It is commercially grown because of its edible fruits.The fruit is somewhat egg-shaped or rounded with a thin, brown skin. When ripe it is soft and sweet.

Nutritive and Economic Values

* The fruits which are sweet serve as a delicious dessert.
* The fruits are used as a good ingredient for ice cream.
* The Chico fruit is deficient in calcium but fair in iron.

Medicinal Value of Chico

* The seeds which contains saponins and quercetin are diuretic(helps the body dispose of excess water by increasing the amount of urine produced.)They contain 23% oil.

* The mature bark which contains tannin has a medicinal use in Cambodia where it is employed in the cure of diarrhea.

Chico tress may be propagated by seeds,marcotting and inarching. In orchards, plant chico tress about seven to eight meters apart.

Harvest only fully matured fruits.Immature fruits may ripen but the quality is poor, because the skin wrinkles and the taste is inferior.

Cashew ( Kasoy)

The cashew plant is a small to medium-sized tree. The trunk is gnarled and usually crooked.There are three types of cashew fruits;a group with big apples and small nuts;a group with small apples and big nuts; and a group with big apples and big nuts.

Medicinal Value of Kasoy

* For Diarrhea and Diabetes - Boil the bark;cool and drain solution before drinking.
* For ulcerations in the mouth - Boil the bark;cool and drain solution before using as mouth wash.
* For Dysentery - Pour boiling water on the leaves of kasoy placed in a container. Cool and drain before drinking.

Economic And Nutritive Values Of Cashew

* The juicy cashew apple,receptacle may be eaten when ripe and is used for sweet preserves.
* Wine, alcohol and vinegar can be made from the cashew apple.
* The meat of the cashew nuts are used in the preparation of confectionery and in the preparation of cakes, pastries,ice cream and candies.

The fruits are ready for harvest when the color of the cashew apples has became cream yellow and when the nuts are already hard and light brown in color.

Guayabano (Sour Sop)

Guayabano or sour sop is a small tree which was introduced into the Philippines from West Indies. It grows to about seven meters high.
It is grown for its fruit. The fruit is ovate is shape and weighs about 2 to 4 kilos. The skin of the fruit is covered with flexible green prickles.The pulp of the fruit is white, fibrous and contains several black seeds.It is soft,juicy, and has a sweet acid flavor when ripe.

Economic And Nutritive Values of Sour Sop

* The mature green fruit is used as a vegetable.
* The ripe fruit is eaten off hand or for dessert.
* The fruit juice is used for flavoring ice cream and sherbets and for the preparation of drinks.
* The ripe fruit is fair in Vitamin C content and has traces of Vitamin A.

Medicinal Value of Sour Sop

* The unripe fruit is prepared as remedy for dysentery.
* The above solution also relieves muscular pains or cramp.
* The ripe fruit is a good remedy for scurvy.
* The heated liquid extract from the leaves or flowers is used to induce sweating.

The Sour Sop tree is propagated by seeds. The seeds are sown in seedbeds.The seedlings should be set in the field 5 to 7 meters apart. The Sour Sop trees grow fast and attains a height of 4 to 7 meters. The bear fruit in about three years after planting.

Lansones( Lansium domesticum)

Lansones tree grows to a height of about 8 meters. There are other varieties which are lesser in height. This tree is grown for its delicious fruits. The fruits are borne in grape-like bunches. Each fruit is ovoid in shape, about 2 to 4 centimeters in diameter. The skin is yellowish, tough and satiny. The fruit usually has one to three viable seeds.

Economic and Nutritive Values of Lansones
*The ripe lansones fruits are considered one of the most delicious Philippine fruits.
*The rings and seeds contain chemicals which are industrially and medicinally important.

Medical Value of lansones

• The solution formed by boiling the bark of the tree in water is taken internally as medicine for dysentery.
• The powdered bark is applied as remedy against poison in scorpion and centipede stings.
• The ground seeds mixed with water is taken internally to expel intestinal worms.
• The resin from the bark of the tree is prepared and applied externally for the prevention of muscular spasms or cramps.
• A preparation from the dried rinds is useful in counteracting diarrhea.
• Burning dried fruit peels, which gives a certain fragrance drives mosquitoes away.

Lansones grows profitably in loamy, clayey and sandy soils with good drainage. It thrives best in places with a uniform distribution of rainfall and in areas with distinct dry and wet seasons. It grows well at sea level to about 2,000 feet elevation.

Lansones can be propagated by seeds, marcotting and inarching. Seeds are first planted in seedbeds. When the seedlings are two-and-a-half years old, they are transplanted in the prepared holes in the field, 5 meters apart.

The white and red bark bores are serious pests that attack the lansones tree. One way of controlling these insect pests is to scrape off the barks of the trunk and branches of the tree. The places where the barks are scraped should then be washed with “gogo,” a kind of bark of a certain vine. This removes the hiding places of the borers.

After five or six months after blooming, the fruits are ready for th harvesting. Harvest only the fully-mature or ripe fruits.