Science Daily- Philippine Herbs: The Healing Wonders of the Mayana Plant

Having a healthy mind and body are the main reason why life is meaningful. Being able to do the things you love to do especially the physical one without worrying anything feels great. But sometimes it is hard to avoid sickness to our body. Taking medicines and supplements is what we usually do to combat these things right?

But did you know that there are many traditional plants that are most likely powerful than the drugs that we are taking? One of this is the Mayana plant.

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Herbal medicine is the use of plants as medicine. It is widely used all over the world. Plants contain phytochemicals that are essential in fighting against diseases in a natural way. Herbal medicine is a good alternative to synthetic medicine. Safe to take and are locally available.

What is Mayana Plant?
Mayana is an herb that is usually cultivated as ornament. It has acer rubrum leaves which are dotched or colored with mostly purple. Some leaf colors are yellow, green, red, pink, and sometimes blue but the most common one is purple. Its leaves give mayana its attractive color giving people the idea to display varieties of them in their houses.

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Scientific Name: Coleus blumei Benth
Common Name: Mayana
English Name: Painted Nettle
Filipino Name: Mayana

Mayana grows fast and healthy in humid places. They don't like prolonged exposure to sunlight as their leaves dry up. A little bit of sunlight exposure in the morning can make their color more contrast and bright. And a morning and evening sprinkling of water is enough for them to grow nicely and beautifully.

Erect, branched, fleshy annual herb, about 1 m high. Stems, purplish and 4-angled. Leaves are blotched or colored, ovate, 5-10 cm long, with toothed margins. Flowers are purplish, numerous, in simple or branched inflorescence, 15-30 cm long.

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What are the Health Benefits of Mayana plant?
Mayana plant is a plant that has a lot of health benefits, due to the essential oils and antioxidants in it. Beauty color make this plant is often used as an ornamental flower. Mayana leaves including medicinal plants that can handle various kinds of ailments such as ulcers, to serious illnesses such as diabetes and hemorrhoids.
According to Science here are some of the proven benefits of Mayana

• Helps to Treat Hemorrhoids
• Helps Treat Boils/Ulcer
• Helps to Heal and Lowers Fever Heat
• Curing and Relieve Symptoms of Cough
• Good When Menstruation
• Treating Diabetes
• Stomach Pain and Heartburn Drugs
• As the Red Eye Drug
• As a cough and cold medicines
• Treating ulcerative lesions
• To clean the blood on the last day of menstruation
• Inflammation Ear Drops Drug
• Drug Whitish
• Overcoming Worms Bracelet
• Enteritis
• Treats Dyspepsia
• Mayana for Glaucoma
  

This video provides the amazing wonders why we should have Mayana plant in our Garden. Mayana leaves add to the long list of types of plants that have health benefits for humans. The benefits of ornamental plants themselves become an attraction for everyone, ornamental plants are very useful to beautify the look of the house, room or other buildings as the greening of the mini version somewhere.

The Philippine medicinal plant entrees now number about 1100. And it is very amazing the the government and people now have seen the real value and importance of these traditional plants.

Because of the high costs involved with manufacturing modern medicines, many people living in developing nations simply do not have the the financial resources to pay for them, and as a result, they are forced to use natural herbs as an affordable alternative.

Thank you so much for reading this article.

References

• Philippine Medical Plants(2016)Mayana. From http://www.stuartxchange.org/Mayana
• Filipino Herbs(2017)Healing Wonders of Philippine Medicinal Plants. From http://www.filipinoherbshealingwonders.filipinovegetarianrecipe.com/mayana.htm
• Dr. Health Benefits(2015)15 Health Benefits of Mayana Plant.Fromhttps://drhealthbenefits.com/herbal/herbal-plant/health-benefits-of-mayana-plant

Video

• Plant Herbs(2016)Plant Herbs: HEALTH BENEFITS OF MAYANA PLANT (Painted Nettle) Must watch! Its impressive. From https://www.youtube.com