Alagaw Alternative Medicine Supplements and Vitamins

 Alagaw Tree

Alagaw Benefits related alternative medicine supplements and vitamins. Also explore information on treatment, health benefits & side effects with Alagaw Benefits. Many of the sources come from our Encyclopedia of Natural Health and include relevant health topics. Uses vary, but may include , Improving Skin Tone, and Promoting Healing and are non-FDA reviewed or approved, natural alternatives, to use for , Heart Disease, and Dry Skin. 

 Alagau is a small hairy tree, 3 to 8 meters high. Leaves are ovate to broadly ovate, 10 to 20 centimeters long, with broad, rounded, or somewhat heart-shaped base, and pointed tips. Under surface of the blade is usually covered with short hairs, aromatic when crushed. Flowers are greenish-white or nearly white, 4 to 5 millimeters long and borne on terminal inflorescences (cymes) 8 to 20 centimeters in diameter. Fruit is fleshy, dark purple, rounded, about 5 millimeters in diameter.

.Alagaw Benefits

· Decoction of fresh leaves used for vaginal irrigation.

· Decoction of leaves for fever and colds, cough and bronchitis, fever blisters of the lips and stomachaches.

· "Kochoi," a local patent preparation, is claimed to benefit tuberculosis.

· Decoction of leaves used for flatulence (gas pains) in adults; in children, crushed leaves mixed with a little coconut or sesame oil are applied to the abdomen.

· Crushed leaves applied to forehead and temples for headaches.

· Leaf decoction has been used for tuberculosis.

· Roots are chewed and the saliva swallowed for cardiac troubles.

· Infusion of leaves is carminative.

· Decoction of roots, leaves, flowers, and fruits used as sudorific, pectoral, and carminative.

· Decoction of shoots used as parasiticide.

· Decoction of leaves used for bathing infants; also used as treatment for beriberi.

· Extract of leaves for cleaning wounds and for ticks and fleas.