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UPDATE April 17, 2009 |
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| The Philippine medicinal plant entrees now number over 480 and the separate lists of plants have been joined together into a Tagalog list and an English list for those plants with English designations. English names are included in the Tagalog lists for plants that have not acquired local names. In red and bold fonted are the original ten medicinal plants promoted by the Department of Health. Recently added is a list of Philippine medicinal plants with known Chinese names. For quite a number of plants, there may be a confusing similarity in common names shared by plants of different species, or different names for the same plant in the same region or tribe, or confusing variations in the common names of the same specie of plant. (See: Plant Names) Of interesting note, is the variety and seemingly amusing origins of the common names, which in itself presents as an interesting etymological study. Frequent updates are done for photos, folkloric info, research studies and addition of new plants. |
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| Ornamental
and medicinal The list also includes a fair number of ornamental plants with no reported folkloric medicinal use in the Philippines, but which on web-search and research reveal indigenous medicinal use in other countries or recent and/or on-going scientific investigations. |
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