Medicinal Uses:

Diuretic: Take decoction of hairs or cobs as tea. Decoction of pith of cob as tea is used for stomach complaints. Decoction of roots, leaves, and corn silk used for dysuria, bladder complaints, and bedwetting. The water in which unhusked corn is boiled is a pleasant tasting remedy for urinary tract infection. The corn silk decoction is also thought to be diuretic. Poultice used for ulcers, rheumatic pains and swellings. Decoction of parched corn (buned or roasted) taken as tea for nausea and vomiting. Kidney stones: Infusion of corn hair in hot water, 3x daily.

Medicinal Uses:

Suppressing nausea and vomiting, reducing fever and coughing, treating inflammation, congestion, cold, diarrhea, indigestion, and flatulence. It is use for blood thinning and cholesterol lowering. It is also proven to kill salmonella bacteria and can be used as food preservative.

Medicinal Uses:

Suppressing nausea and vomiting, reducing fever and coughing, treating inflammation, congestion, cold, diarrhea, indigestion, and flatulence. It is use for blood thinning and cholesterol lowering. It is also proven to kill salmonella bacteria and can be used as food preservative.

Medicinal Uses:

A treatment for burns only. Can treat asthmatic person also bronchitis.

Medicinal Uses:

Effective against many bacteria including Bacillus subtilis, Salmonella, and E. coli. Onion is not as potent as garlic since the sulfur compounds in onion are only about onequarter the level found in garlic.

Medicinal Uses:

The leaves of the sweet potato plant can be used to make a poultice and applied to minor burns or bug bites. A tea or decoction made from the leaves of the sweet potato plant can be used to help bring down a fever. Eating cooked sweet potatoes or drinking a decoction of the leaves is said to help reduce stomach distress, nausea and diarrhea.

Medicinal Uses:

The purplish variety used for diabetes because of assumed insulin-like principle it contains. Juice used as emetic. Poultice of buds used for ringworm.

Medicinal Uses:

Lowering blood pressure and high cholesterol, which can prevent heart disease. Against cancer and assist with diabetes treatments. Used for hoarseness and coughs in fighting a cold or flu.

Pulped leaves applied to boils and ulcers to hasten suppuration.Sugared juice of leaves useful for catarrhal afflictions. Leaf-juice, mixed with butter, is soothing and colling when applied to burns and scalds.

cExtract of leaves used for colic and as laxative; in large doses causes diarrhea and vomiting.

Fever or cough: Take decoction of flowers or leaves as needed. Ulcers: Pound flowers or leaves and apply on affected areas. Fever, abdominal distention, and diarrhea: use 3 to 6 gm of dried flowers or leaves, combined with other drug materials, use in decoction form. Reddening and swelling pain in the eye, use decoction of dried flowers as eyewash.

*Young leaves increases the flow of milk. Pods for intestinal parasitism. *Constipation: Leaves and fruit *Decoction of boiled roots used to wash sores and ulcers. *Decoction of the bark used for excitement, restlessness. *Pounded roots used as poultice for inflammatory swelling. *Juice of roots is used for otalgia.

The leaves are often employed as a remedy for asthma, and said to also be a heart tonic. The flowers have pectoral properties. The fruit is used in cosmetics for a healthy skin complexion. The green fruit is laxative and diuretic. Studies at the University of Nigeria have revealed that extracts of ripe and unripe papaya fruits and of the seeds are active against gram-positive bacteria. Strong doses are effective against gram-negative bacteria.

Lemon grass , also known as Sweet Rush and sometimes called Fever Grass in the Caribbean, can be used as a remedy for ague, fevers, and colds, and is utilized in the manufacture of synthetic violet perfume.

In the Philippines, the Talong roots are taken as a decoction internally as an antiasthmatic and general stimulant. The roots are also used in treatment of skin diseases.

Avocado remedies for toothache.