Last
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March 11, 2008 |
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The Philippine medicinal plant entrees now number over 450 and the separate lists of plants have been joined together into a Tagalog list and an English list for those plants with English designations. English names are included in the Tagalog lists for plants that do not have any local names. Recently added is a list of Philippine medicinal plants with known Chinese names. For some plants, there may be a confusing similarity in common names shared by plants of different species, or different names for the same plant in the same region or tribe, or confusing variations in the common names of the same specie of plant. (See: Plant Names) Of interesting note, is the variety and seemingly amusing origins of the common names, which in itself presents as an interest ing etymological study. Frequent updates are done for photos, folkloric info, new studies, and addition of new plants. |
| The list also includes a fair number of ornamental plants with no reported folkloric medicinal use in the Philippines, but which on web-search and research reveal indigenous medicinal use in other countries or recent and/or on-going scientific investigations. |
The difficulty in searching for a particular Philippine plant is the multiplicity of names that a plant may possess, from several scienfitic names to more than 30 common names, and often, many of them shared with plants of other species. The Freefind search engine will significantly facilitate your search through the haystack of scientific names, common and English names. |
