The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines (Classic Reprint)

The medical knowledge represented in this book is over a century old. The publication of this book is for historical interest only, and is not to be construed as medical advice by Project Gutenberg or its volunteers. Medicinal plants should not be used without consulting a trained medical professional. Medical science has made considerable progress since this book was written. Recommendations or prescriptions may have been superseded by better alternatives, or invalidated altogether.
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. This translation was undertaken with the especial object of facilitating the study of the native medicinal plants by the numerous medical officers stationed at small posts throughout the Philippines. In order to aid in the recognition of these plants, the botanical descriptions have been revised to the extent of adding, where possible, the size and shape of the plant, English name, length of leaves, color of flowers, etc., in many instances supplying the entire botanical description where it had been omitted on account of general familiarity with the plant. Comparing the few analyses that I have had an opportunity to make with corresponding ones in the native works from which Dr. Tavera has taken his botanical descriptions, I am impressed with the necessity for a revision of the Botany of the Philippines. However, as the therapeutic properties of the ,flora are of foremost interest to the medical profession I have not hesitated to publish the book

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CONTENTS; DICOTYLEDONOUS, POLYPETALOUS; DILLENIACElE-Tetracera macrophylla ; MAGNOLIACElE-Illicium anisatum, Michelia Champaca ; ANONACElE-Artabotrys odoratissimus, Anona squamosa, A; reticulata, A muricata ; MENISPERMACElE-Tinospora crispa, Anamirta Cocculus,; Cissampelos Pareira ; NYMPHlEACElE-Nymphrea Lotus, Nelumbium nucifera ; PAPA VER