Definition:
A sponge bath given to a person with fever.
Effects:
- Reduces fever or lowers body temperature.
- Sedative effects.
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Fever Sponge Bath
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Enema
Definition:
The introduction of water into the colon to stimulate bowel activity and to cleanse the bowels.
Effects:
- Stimulates peristalsis or bowel activities.
- Cleanses the colon, usually done before tests and x-rays of the colon or any of the abdominal organs.
- Relieves gas pain.
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Cold Compress
Definition:
A cloth wrung from cold or ice water which may be applied to any part of the body surface.
Effects:
- Relieves pain due to edema or trauma.
- Prevents and relieves head congestion.
- Slows heart rate if applied over the heart.
- Constricts blood vessels, decreasing local blood flow.
- Decreases tendency to bleed due to vaso-constriction.
- Lowers body temperature when applied over at least one fourth of body surface, or when applied on the forehead or nape.
- Stops nosebleed when applied on the nasal area.
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Papaya – Scientific name: Carica Papaya
English: Pawpaw, Papaya
Tagalog: Papaya
Papaya is a fruit tree found throughout the Philippines, mostly cultivated. The native species grows mostly wild on Mt. Banahaw. Papaya is one of our four “power herbs” having a long history and proof of being a very effective medicinal plant. The leaves, fruits, stem and roots all contain the proteolytic enzyme papain. Exhaustive studies have been done on papain, and it is reported to be a true, soluble, digestive ferment or a mixture of ferments of vegetable origin, its proteolytic action marked in acid, alkaline, and neutral solutions and also in the presence of many chemicals, antiseptics, and therapeutic agents. It has a peculiar softening and disintegrating actions in proteids, and its general proteolytic action is that of a genuine digestive ferment, similar to that of the ferments of animal origin.
Yacon – Scientific name: Polymnia sanchifolia
English: Yacon
Tagalog: Yakon
There is now a new root crop that goes by the unusual name yacon. Recognized as a health food, it is also known as the apple of the earth because although it is grown underground like any other root crop, its fruit resembles an apple or a pear. Also, unlike regular root crops whose carbohydrate content eventually turns to starch, then sugar, when ingested, the yacon stores carbohydrates in the form of inulin and not starch. High in inulin, it serves as a sucrose-free food for diabetics.
Tuba Bakod – Scientific name: L., Euphorbiaceae ; Jatropha curcas
English: Barbados nut, bubble bush, physic nut, purging nut;
Tagalog: Tuba Bakod
Physic nut is a drought resistant shrub that grows up to 20′ tall under favorable condition with spreading branches.
Tags: Tuba – Scientific name: Croton tiglium Linn.
English: Croton Oil Plant
Tagalog: Tuba
An erect or more or less spreading shrub or very small tree. (more…)
Talumpunay – Scientific name: Datura metel Linn.
English: Thorn apple
Tagalog: Talumpunay
Thorn Apple, also called jimsonweed in the United States, common name for a plant native to North America and now naturalized around the world. The plant is a large annualherb with conspicuous white-to-purple flaring, tubular flowers up to 10 cm (4 in) long and large, round, spiny fruits. The alkaloids, produced in the leaves, seeds, and other parts of the plant, are poisonous; eating them can result in convulsions, coma, and even death.
