Botany
Pasionaring-mabaho is a herbaceous vine with slender and rounded stems, covered with prominent villous hairs. Leaves are ovate to oblong-ovate, 6 to 9 cm long, shallowly 3-lobed, often sinuate and ciliate, with pointed tip and heart-shaped base. Flower is solitary, white or pinkish, 3 cm in diameter, subtended by a prominent involucre of 3 bracts. Fruit is dry, inflated, ovoid, orange, 3 to 5 cm long. All parts of the plant have a disagreeable odor.

Distribution
- In waste places at low altitudes, esp. in the Laguna, Rizal and Quezon provinces.
- Introduced from tropical America.
- Now pantropic.

Constituents
- Before maturity, the leaves and green fruit contain a cyanogenetic glucoside, and in excess can be dangerous to stock.
- Study yields maltol, phytosterols, cyanogenic glycoside, flavonoids and their glycosides.

Properties
Leaves and roots are emmenagogue.
Flowers are pectoral.
Considered antibacterial.

Parts used
Leaves, fruits, and flowers.

Uses
Edibility
The sweetish pulp is edible when ripe.
Folkloric
- Infusion of leaves and roots used for hysteria.
- Plant used for itchy conditions.
- Decoction of fruit used for asthma and biliousness.
- Decoction of leaves and roots used as emmenagogue.
- Fruit used as emetic.
- Leaves applied to the head for headaches and giddiness.
- In India, traditionally used for diarrhea, throat and ear infections, liver disorders, tumors, itches, fever and skin diseases and for wound dressing.
- In Malaysia, used for treatment of asthma.
- In Argentina, used to treat epilepsy.
- In Africa, used gas, colds, and pregnancy to keep the baby active.
- In French Guiana, decoction of leaf and bark mixed with the same of Annona glabra as anthelmintic for flatworms and nematodes. source

Studies
• Antibacterial: (1) Study of PF showed the leaf extracts to have remarkable activity against all bacterial pathogens compared to the fruit extracts. Study supports the traditional use of the herbal extracts against a variety of diseases – diarrhea, fever, skin diseases, ear and throat infections. (2) Study of invitro antibacterial activity of roots of P foetida showed the methanol extract to have significant activity against K pneumonia, P aeruginosa and E coli with levofloxacin, amikacin and sparfloxacin as standard antibiotics.
• Antiproliferative: One of nine selected Thai medicinal plants tested, the aerial parts of Passiflora foetida showed antiproliferative activity against SLBR3 human breast adenocarcinoma cell line.
• Hepatoprotective: The ethanolic extract of fruits of Passiflora foetida significantly reduced the biomarkers of hepatic injury (SGOT, SGPT, Alk Phos, GGTP). Results indicate the fruits of Pf possess hepatoprotective activity, a property that may be attributed to the presence of flavonoids.
• Anxiolytic: In a comparative study, the methanol extract of P incarnata exhibited significant anxiolytic activity whereas P edulis was devoid of any significant activity.

Availability
Wild-crafted.
Capsules and extracts in the cybermarket.