Categories
Herbs & Plants

Tawa Tawa aka Gatas Gatas weed

 

Boto-botonesan or phonetic variations are shared by three plants of different species: (1) Mutha (Cyperus rotundus) Boto-botones (2) Gatas-gatas (Euphorbia hirta) botobotonis, botbotonis, botonis (3) Botoncillo (Gomphrena globosa) botbotonis, botones-botonesan.

1. Mutha:-

[amazon_link asins=’B003Q7BSNC,B00HYATDH0,B008X7631W,B0146M94RM,B01J56LREW,B0001UIB9G,B0146M908K,B01HLRKKOA,B004ZH5XL0′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’finmeacur-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’51d3a0ff-18f4-11e7-8b17-01136081bb45′]

CLICK & SEE
Botanical Name:BOTO-BOTONES/Cyperus rotundus /Hsiang-fu
Common names: Balisanga (Ilk.) ,Barsanga (Ilk.) ,Boto-botones (Bik.) ,Galonalpas (Pamp.),Kusung (Pamp.),Mala-apulid (Pamp.), Mota (Pamp.),Mutha (Tag.),Omadiung (Pamp.) ,Onoran (Pamp.),Sur-sur (Pamp.) ,Tarugug (Bik.) ,Hsiang-fu (Chin.)

Habitat: Found throughout the Philippines; a common weed in gardens, lawns and wastelands.throughout the Philippines.
Part utilized : Rhizome

Description:
* Slender, erect, glabrous, perennial grasslike plant, 10 to 40 cm high. Rhizomes or underground stems wiry, bearing black, hard, ovoid tubers about 1 cm in diameter. Above ground stem solitary, distinctly 3-angled.
* Leave as long as the stems.
* Flowers: inflorescence umbel-type, simple or compound, 2 to 6 cm long, with rather long rays or spikes. Spike with 3 to 8 spikelets. Spikelets brown, flat, slender, 10 to 25 mm long with 10 to 25 florets per spikelet. Rachilla of the spikelet distinctly winged. Glumes of the floret distichously arranged, the first 2 empty, the third one bisexual.
* Fruits: 3-angled nuts.

click to see the pictures……>...(01)...…(1)...….(2)...
* Harvest from December to January.
* Wash and sun-dry or heat-dry in a clean frying pan.
* Scrape off the fibrous roots.

Characteristics Effects:
-Fragrant, slightly bitter tasting rhizome.

Medicinal Uses:Demulcent, analgesic, stimulative, laxative, regulates menstrual flow.

Folkloric uses:
* Indigestion and constipation: 2 to 6 gms of dried material in a standard cup of water, boil to concentration and drink.
* Skin diseases: Wash the diseased portion with the hot decoction.
* Chest pains caused by deterred blood flow of blood and energy circulation: boil to decoction 4 to 9 gms of dried drug preparation together with 4 gms of Citrus (dalanghita, kahel, suha, kalamansi, etc.) and drink.
* Neurogenic gastralgia, abdominal distention, heaviness at the chest, acidic vomiting: 3 to 9 gms dried material in decoction.
*Irregular menstruation, painful menstruation: 3 to 9 gms dried material in decoction.
* Sprains and bruises, furuncle infections: Use pounded fresh material as poultice or cook the pulverized drug material in vinegar and apply as hot poultice.

Sources:http://www.stuartxchange.org/Mutha.html

2) Gatas-gatas:-

[amazon_link asins=’B00G3K69NI,B00WOH9US0,B00R8GG9XG,B00KGC9ZRG,B00RD8Q87Q,B00WOH9KE4,B00WOH9ZC6,B00WOH9XZ0,B00WOH9W92′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’finmeacur-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c207b057-18f4-11e7-a5b7-79d54c223797′]

Botanical Name:Euphorbia hirta
Common Name:Tawa-tawa,botobotonis, botbotonis, botonis,AUTRALIAN ASTHMA WEED, SNAKE WEED,Fei-yang ts’ao

Chinese names:
Euphorbia hirta L. var. typica L.C. Wheel,Fei-yang ts’ao, Ta fei-yang, ta nai-chiang ts’ao, ju-chih ts’ao (milk herb), ta-ti chin, ta ju-chih ts’ao (giant milk herb).

Parts used :Entire plant.

Habitat:Abundant in waste places and open grasslands.

Description:
Slender-stemmed, annual hairy plant with many branches from the base to the top, spreading up to 40 cms tall, reddish or purplish in color. Leaves are opposite, elliptic-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, distichoous, 1 to 2.5 cms long, blotched with purple in the middle, toothed at the edge. Numerous involucres, purplish to greenish in color, dense, axillary, short-stalked clusters or crowded cymes, about 1 mm in length. Capsules are broadly ovoid, hairy, three-angled, about 1.5 cms.

CLICK & SEE

Constituents:
Gallic acid; quercetin; triacontane; cetyl alcohol; phytosterin; phytosterolin; jambulol; melissic, palmitic, oleic, and linoleic acid.

Medicinal Uses:Anti-asthmatic, pectoral, hemostatic, sedative, soporific, diuretic, antidote.

Folkloric
*Called gatas-gatas because of the healing property of the milky juice.
*Juice used for colics.
*Juice used as ophthalmic drops for conjunctivitis or ulceration of the cornea.
*Infusion or tea of the plant, 4 glasses daily, for bronchits and labored breathing, asthma, chronic dysentery.
*Decoction of dry plant used for skin disease.
*Decoction of fresh plant used as gargle for the treatment of thrusth.
*Decoction of the root used to allay vomiting, chronic diarrheas, and fevers.
*Root decoction also beneficial for nursing mothers deficient in milk: 4-5 glasses of tea.
*The same root decoction as an enema for constipation.
Root used for snake bites.
Asthma: Make into cigarette or burn and inhale smoke.
Superficial bleeding: Crush leaves and apply on affected paret, as local hemostatic.
Plant decoction: 25 gms of the whole plant to a pint of boiling water; boil for 3-4 minutes; drink 3-5 glasses a day. Externally as needed.

Recent interests from the folk medicine grapevine:DENGUE
(A flurry of queries and web blogs, gatas-gatas has found new interest for gatas-gatas (tawa-tawa) for its use in dengue, with increasing anecdotal reports of “cures.” )

A recommended decoction:
*Cut the roots off 5 to 6 gatas-gatas plants.
*Rinse.
*Put the tawa tawa into a pot of boiling water for 1 minute.
*Let cool.
*Drink the decoction, 1 to 1 1/2 glasses every hour for 24 hours.

Sources:http://www.stuartxchange.org/GatasGatas.html

.

3)Botoncillo

[amazon_link asins=’B00028OO52,B00618IKZW,B013K0OINQ,B0017WW8KU,B0093JY0TQ,B00D3L68AO,B017C00RQC,B0013FW1XA,B00J794P4C’ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’finmeacur-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d5491559-18f5-11e7-8578-475483ac5771′]

Botanical Name:
Gomphrena globosa L.
Common Name:Hyptis capitata, bababañga, liñga-liñgahan.
Bokingon (Tag.) Bukingan (Tag.)
Botbotones (Ilk.) Bulah (Bag.)
Botoncillo (Sp.) Butingan (S.L.Bis.)
Botones-botonesan (Tag.)

Habitat: In settled areas throughout the Philippines.

Parts utilized: Flowers.

Description:
* An erect, branched, pubescent annual, the branches more or less thickened and often purplish at the nodes.

CLICK & SEE

* Leaves: opposite, petioled, oblong acute or obtuse, 7 to 11 cm long.

* Flowers: numerous, densely crowded in globose heads, the heads are white, pink or purple, solitary, peduncled, 1.5 to 2 cm long in diameter, subtended by 2 bracts. Bracteoles 8 to 10 mm long, enclosing the flowers, lateral, keeled. Sepals, pubescent, 5, lanceolate, cleft at the tip, usually without staminodes. Ovary 1-celled, 1-ovuled; style short or long, stigmas 2.

* Fruits: utricles, compressed, indehiscent.

Propagation:Propagate by seeds or cuttings

Hervesting: Collect the head inflorescence during May to October, during the flowering season. and Sun-dry

Properties: Sweet tasting. Antitussive, antiasthmatic.

Medicinal uses:
Bronchial asthma, acute and chronic bronchitis, whooping cough: Decoction of 9-15 g of dried material or 10 head inflorescence.
Sources:http://www.stuartxchange.org/Botoncillo.html

Disclaimer:The information presented herein is intended for educational purposes only. Individual results may vary, and before using any supplements, it is always advisable to consult with your own health care provider.

Enhanced by Zemanta

14 replies on “Tawa Tawa aka Gatas Gatas weed”

herbal laxative tea…

It is amazing that you wrote a decent blurb regarding Acupuncture my ass at Beaut.ie – The Irish Beauty Blog Cosmetics …. I just did a quick search on herbal laxative tea and was fascinated! Nice job!…

hi,it is said that this tawa-tawa plant could increase the production of blood platelets of a patient suffering from dengue.How is this so?

It's proven that tawa tawa helps elevate the blood platelets of patients suffering from dengue from our experience just recently. My nephew was confine at St. Luke's because of low blood platelets because of fever and later diagnos that he is possitive of Dengue and they closely monitor his blood platelets after having several dextrose still from 110, it dropped to 80, then 70 and ti 60 plus . We tried the papaya leaves pulp into a paste but it was hard to take it and someone told us about tawa tawa and we tried it Thank God after dringking it the whole day his blood platelets went up to 140 and was discharged from the hospital. I guess I must advice if you will administer tawa tawa you should be giving them lots of fluids not to dehydrate the patient. I just wanted to share this, it might help a lot of Dengue cases.. God Bless !

I want to share my experienced on using or taking Tawa-tawa. Ever since during our childhood my parents did not admit us in the Hospital due to Dengue Fever. Only Tawa-tawa weed she took to us we were 9 children in our family but only Tawa-tawa who cured us when we have had high fever, therefore Dengue Virus did not damage to our blood cells because my mother has an immediate option how her entire member of her family would be cured in simply ways but very mush effective. And I remember the Top Secret Message from Heaven that all green leafy weeds were designed and given to us by God for us to cure all kinds of ailments we have. That's the Top Secret Message from God. Therefore you did not notice that many processed medicines now were came from plants right? And we were so lucky here in the Philippines because God provides us many green leafy weeds for us to use an immediate option or alternatives for curing Dengue etc. God Bless and Thanks to Almighty Father.

Yes, it's true. Tawa-tawa or gatas healed my 8-year old son whom we suspected to have dengue. I've known now that in the early stages of dengue infection, blood platelets do not normally drop down, but fever, muscle pains and other symptoms of the disease get manifested. By then, administer right the drinking of "nilagang tawa-tawa or gatas-gatas'. In my son's case, we gave him 4 glasses daily for seven days. It's only as simple as that, and we then escaped our supposed hopital bills! A miracle, isn't it! Well, nature's wonder! So, before the doctors say you have dengue, drink right away. Or else, once they say it, you are already at the advancing stage of the disease, and it's already hard to be cured merely by tawa-tawa or gatas-gatas alone. 'Hope this helps!'

very interesting . .great info at least we don't have to spend lots of money for hospital bill and medicines. way to go Filipino researchers

Leave a Reply to reililyCancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

css.php