Agas-moro
Verononia cinerea L.
Other
scientific names
Common names
Agas-moro (Ilk.)
Bulabod (Sub.)
Kolong-kugon (S.L. Bis.)
Magmansi (Pang.)
Sagit (Bon.)
Tagulinaw (Tag.)
Tagulinay (Tag.)
·Botany
· Erect, slender, sparingly
branched, somewhat pubescent annual herb 20 to 80 cm high.
· Leaves: Petioled, oblanceolate to obovate, acute or obtuse,
shallowly toothed 2 to 6 cm long.
· Flowers: Bright-purple, all perfect, the corolla all
equal, tubular, slender 5-lobed, about 20 in each head, twice
as long as the involucral bracts. Heads small, peduncled in open,
lax corymbs, about 7 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter.
· Fruits: Achenes striate, ribbed or angled; pappus hairs
numerous.
Properties
Cooling, febrifuge, sedating,
decongestant, anti-infectious.
Distribution
Open waste places throughout
the settled areas at low and medium altitudes; common weed, flowering
all the year.
Parts
used
Whole plant.
Collect from May to August.
Rinse and sun-dry.
Uses:
Folkloric
· Cold, fever, cough.
· Acute jaunditic hepatitis.
· Neurasthenia, insomnia, night urination among infants,
infected sores, mastitis, snake bites, sprains, furuncle.
· Dosage: 15 to 30 gms dried material (among infants, 9
to 15 gms), 30 to 60 gms fresh material in decoction. ·
· · · Poultice of fresh material used for
eczema, carbuncle and snake bites.
Availability
Wild-crafted.
