Botany
Alibungog is a small tree growing to a height of 5 meters or more with crooked branches and smooth and slender branchlets. Leaves are alternate, oblong-ovate to broadly lanceolate, about 10 cm long and 4.5 cm wide, entire, pointed at the tip, and somewhat rounded at the base. Inflorescences are usually terminal, and at most as long as the leaves. Flowers are white and fragrant, clustered upon short pedicels. Calyx is small and ovately segmented. Corolla is somewhat enlarged at the cylindric base with the narrow lobes ultimated reflexed. Fruit is rounded, about 3 mm in diameter, juicy, and orange with a reddish tinge when mature.

Distribution
An endemic species found in thickets and forests at low and medium altitudes from the Babuyan Islands and northern Luzon to Palawan and Mindanao.

Constituents
Constituents

Properties
Considered counter-irritant, emollient.

Parts used
Bark, leaves, roots.

Uses
Folkloric
- Poultice of bark of the stem, scraped into a pulp, and the green leaves are applied to painful infllammed areas for as long as six hours, and the dressing application renewed once or twice in twenty hours as needed. The poultice has been applied to areas of painful and swollen joints, facial infllammation, post-traumatic sweelings, inflammed swollen hangnail and cellulitis.
- Dr. Camomot's "Macerate" prepartion: an aqueous maceration is prepared from soaking of fresh leaves (about 50 leaves, weighing about 100 gms) in a basin of well-water at room temperature. After one week, the leaves turn dark green with a menstruum of deep brown color. Decantation and passage through a cotton sieve yields about 900 cu cm of alibuñgog extract.
- Decoction of stem-bark or whote root used for diarrhea, dysentery, frequent blood stools accompanied by tenesmus.

Availability
Wild-crafted.