Plant

Official
English
Name

Non-official
English

Origin

Synonyms

Characs.
Important
Marking

Part used

Scientific
Name

Family

English

Vernacula
r

Leaves
Fruits
Flowers
Bark

Tamarindus
indica L.

Fabaceae

-Sweet
tamarind
-madeira
mahoganyIndian date
- tamarind
tree

Salamagi(
Ilk)
-Salomagi
-Kalamagi
(Bis)
-Sambagi
(Bis)
-Sambak
(Bik)

Malva
slyvestris

Malvaceae

High
Mallow, Tall
Mallow,
Blue
Mallow,
Cheesecake,
Pickcheese,
Round
Dock,
Countrymallow,
Wild
Mallow,
Wood
Mallow
False
Mallow

Babara
(ILK)

Constituen
ts

Uses
Comm

Medcl

Pharm

1. Cassia Fistula
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Cotton
Collagen
Tragacanth
Manna
Tamarind

Tamarind

-Indian date
-Madeira

Mahogany

7. Mallow Leaf

Common
Mallow

High Mallow, Flower

Tall Mallow, Leaves
Blue Mallow, Seeds
Cheesecake,
Pick-cheese,
Round Dock,
Countrymallow, Wild
Mallow,
Wood Mallow

-Fruits (resemble
dried dates) :
pods oblong,
indehiscent,
velvety, rustybrown; the shell
of the pod is
brittle and the
seeds are
embedded in a
sticky edible pulp
-Leaves are
evenly pinnate
-Petals are
yellowish with
pink stripes,
obovate-oblong
-Flower: Reddish
purple
- Petals are
wrinkly to veined
on the backs,
eggshaped,
margin notched
with a fringe of
hairlike
projections

-Fixed Oils
-Carbs
-Tartaric
Acid
-RICH in
Tannins

-As a souring condiment

- sweetened and candied
-The bark is astringent and tonic
and its ash may be given internally
as a digestive
- Incorporated into lotions or
poultices, the bark may be used to
relives sores, ulcers, boils and
rashes.
- It may also be administered as a
decoction against asthma and
amenorrhea and as a febrifuge.
Leaf extracts exhibit anti-oxidant
activity in the liver, and are a
common ingredient in cardiac and
blood sugar reducing medicines.
-Used as thickener
- antiphlogistic, astringent,
demulcent, diuretic, emollient,
expectorant, laxative, salve
- Cream, yellow and green dyes
can be obtained from the plant and
the seed heads
- Rich in mucilage, the leaf extract
has emollient, softening and
refreshing properties, making it
ideal for fragile and irritated skin.
Mallow also has soothing,
astringent and anti-redness
properties.

8. Gigartina
mamillosa

-False Irish
Moss
- False
Caragheen
- cats' puf

Whole
algae

Mastocarpus
stellatus

Petrocelida
ceae

9. Triticum

-wheat
-Albimonte
-Manital

-Straw

Triticum
aestivum

Poaceae

10. Chondrus
crispus

-Irish Moss
-carrageen
moss

Whole
algae

Chondrus
crispus

Gigartinace
ae

11. Rice
12. Sucrose
13. Sesame seeds
14. Althea root
15. Tears of Acacia
16. Corn
17. Apple

-Gigartina
stellate
- Gigartina
mammilosa
-Petrocelis
cruenta.

-discoid holdfast
stipe, the fronds
are channelled
unlike those of
Chondrus crispus
which are flat.
- Cartilaginous,
purplish brown
fronds, often in
dense tufts
- red algae

-red alga
-branches are 2
15 mm broad,
firm in texture
and dark reddish
brown in color
bleaching to
yellowish in
sunlight.
-gametophytes
often show a
blue iridescence
at the tip of the
fronds

Carrageen

-principal
constituen
t is a
mucilagin
ous body,
made of
the
polysacch
aride
carragee
nan,
which
constitute
s 55% of
its weight

- sold for cooking and as the basis

for a drink reputed to ward of
colds and flu.
- use as Carrageen or Irish Moss

seeds are used in folk remedies for

cancers, corns, tumors, warts, and
whitlow. Reported to be antivinous,
bilious, demulcent, discutient,
diuretic, emollient, excipient,
intoxicant, laxative, useful as a
poultice, restorative, sedative,
used as a shampoo and vulnerary,
- burns, cancer, diarrhea,
dysentery, ecchymosis, epistaxis,
fertility, fever, flux, gravel,
hematuria, hemoptysis,
hemorrhage, incontinence, leprosy,
leucorrhea, menorrhagia,
neurasthenia, nightsweat,
perspiration, scald, tumor, warts,
whitlow, and wounds
industrial source of carragheen,
which is commonly used as a
thickener and stabilizer in milk
products such as ice cream and
processed foods, including lunch
meat
-thickener in calico-printing and for
fining beer or wine
-Carragheen and agar-agar are also
used in Asia for gelatin-like
desserts, such as almond jelly
-aphrodisiac
-home remedy for sore throat and
chest congestion, boiled in milk
and served with honey before bed.

18. Saluyot
19. Agar
20. Animal Gelatin
21. Cherry
22. Fig
23. Elm Bark

Agar-agar