Ampalaya (Tag.)
Momoridca charantia Linn.
DiabetesA climbing vine, narly or quite smooth, annual vine. Height: Grows up to 5 meters high. Leaves: Leaves are 2.5 to 10 centimeters in diameter, cut nearly to the base into 5 to 7 lobes, oblong-ovate, variously toothed, and heart-shaped at the base. Flowers: Male flowers is about 2 millimeters long, and is peduncle, with a rounded, green, and about 1 centimeter long bract approximately at the middle. Female flower is yellow flower, about 15 millimeters long, long-stalked with pair of small leaflike bracts at middle or toward base of stalk. Fruits: Fruit, in cultivated form is green, fleshy, oblong, cylindric, 15 to 25 centimeters long, pointed at both ends, ribbed and wrinkled, bursting when mature to release seeds; in wild forms, ovoid, about 2 to 4 centimetes long.
Medicinal Uses & Benefits
Diabetes, Sakit tiyan (stomachache) and Bughat (kind of sickness or a relapse). Preparation: Collect enough number of leaves and wash thoroughly. Boil in 5 glasses of water. Part used: Leaves | Nanghupong (swelling). Preparation: Collect enough number of leaves. Wrap it with a banana and heat over live coal for 3 minutes.. Part used: Leaves
Preparation
Collect enough number of leaves and wash thoroughly. Boil in 5 glasses of water | Collect enough number of leaves. Wrap it with a banana and heat over live coal for 3 minutes.
Location & Habitat
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Quick Info
- Scientific Name
- Momoridca charantia Linn.
- Local Name
- Ampalaya (Tag.)
- Family
- Cucurbitaceae
- Category
- Diabetes
- Collected By
- Jovencio M. Manga (healer); Cesario P. Orong (mangalalap); Edwin D. Castillon (mangalalap)
- Date Collected
- Jul 13, 2018