Botany
Bañgisi is a shrubby plant with small flowers and capsules, and covered with hairs. Leaves are narrowly lanceolate, 10 to 16 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, widest near the rounded or rather heart-shaped base, and tapering to a pointed tip. Fruit is oblong or oblong-obovoid and less than 1 cm in length.

Distribution
Endemic species found in dry thickets at low and medium altitudes in Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, La Union, and Batangas Provinces in Luzon.

Properties
Considered caminative, emmenagogue, febrifuge, abortifacient.

Parts used
Roots, entire plant.

Uses
Folkloric
Plant used to relieve flatulence, induce menstruation.
Used for fevers.
For painful gastralgia, root is chewed and the saliva swallowed.
As a uterine tonic, root is macerated in native liquors, and administered as a postpartum uterine tonic.
Also considered as a violent abortive.

Availability
Wild-crafted.

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