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Life by choice, join our quests for an ancient holistic remedy of Free-Wild-Crafted-Edibles as Anew way of Life. Cheering wildly - BongGang Buhay

Wild-crafted Edibles Anew Holistic
Ancient Remedy fight against pandemic and climate change. Wild-crafted Plants is resilient, confidence, strength, creativity and authenticity to be able to develop, flourish and thrive in their living environment. Since they are not fed daily they grow their roots long and deep in order to extract nutrients. This trait alone requires the plant to be consciously

adaptable, present and creative on how it will implement its strategy. Daily in-takes of these plants, our bodies and consciousness will also build strength, creativity, adaptability and authenticity. We can see great results and feel a huge impact in our lives. Wild-crafted is very rich in phytonutrients and is free from human interventions like pesticides and insecticides, synthetic fertilizer that is harmful to our health. Presence of phytonutrients are the basis for alternative medications in ancient times until today and become a great source of treatment of a wide range of diseases such as pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and cancer. They are found in more than 25,000 plants, fruits, weeds, vegetables, blooms, herbs and spices and played a huge role in ancient history. This is my choice, to collect wild foods and include them in my lifestyle, finding a well experienced, wonderful and educated coach and mentor and help us to learn wild-crafted edibles from. Our confident in our knowledge of which plants are poisonous and which are edible will be an amazing wild journey!

16/05/2022

After 2 long years, here comes my Queen Opuntia, from The Red Sea. Planted from seeds now they're growing like a tree...

19/01/2022

2022/1

Origin: Bible Inspired Place, The Red Sea

Fuits & Leaves smooth when cooked & eaten

17/05/2021

103.18 WILD GIANT MORINGA aka MALUNGGAY aka MIRACLE TREE

ONE METER LONG FRUITS OF MY MORINGA

Family • Moringaceae / Malunggay / Moringa oleifera Lam

In the news
• In Leyte, extracted malunggay juice is mixed with lemonsito juice to make ice candies or cold drinks, making it more palatable and agreeable to children who detest vegetables.
Because of its high vitamin A, C, and E content, all potent antioxidants, malunggay is a very effective in removing unstable free radicals that is damaging to molecules and pro-aging.
• For the men: The fruit is reported to increase s***m count!
• For increasing breast milk: One rounded tablespoon of leaf powder provides 14% of protein requirements, 40% of calcium, 23% of iron, and the daily vitamin A needs of a child aged one to three. Six rounded tablespoons of leaf powder will provide the woman's daily iron and calcium needs during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
• Highest Antioxidant Score: In an independent, Moringa oleifera scored the highest antioxidant content of any food yet discovered, beating the record-holding aci berry by over 50% margin, measuring over 157,000 umoles using the Oxidant Source Absorbent Capacity (ORAC) system.

Recent uses and preparation:
- Constipation: Eat one or two cups of the cooked leaves at supper time, with plenty of water.
Wound wash: Apply crushed leaves directly to the wound, maintaining cleanliness during the process.

Toxicities
ª Root bark contains 2 alkaloids, as well as the toxic hypotensive moringinine. (Moringinine also stimulates cardiac function through its effect on the sympathetic nervous system.)
ª Has dose-dependent negative inotropic effect, in isolated frog heart study.
• Niazinin A, niazimicin and niaziminin A and B isolated from the ethanol extract produced hypotensive, bradycardic and negative inotropic effects in experimental animals.
• The bark may cause violent uterine contractions that can be fatal. Chronic high-dose use may cause liver and kidney dysfunctions.
• In frequent or large doses, Interior flesh of the plant can cause toxic nerve paralysis from the alkaloid spirochin.
• In the News: Study entitled "Noxious effect of Moringa oleifera leaves extract on the developing brain, morphology, and behaviour of Wistar rat" published in the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology reports that consumption of Moringa oleifera leaves during pregnancy could cause congenital deformities.

Parts utilized Flowers, leaves, young pods

Uses Nutritional
• Flowers, young leaves and young pods eaten as a vegetable inn the Philippines, Malaya, and India.
• In Malaya, seeds also eaten as peanuts.
• Seeds can be removed from pods and boiled like peas, fried or eaten like peanuts.
• Leaves can be used as fresh leaves (used like spinach or as supplement for sauces) or dried powder. Dried leaves can be milled and added to sauces or porridges.
• Flowers can be cooked or fried, or added to relishes.
• Roots are used as seasoning because of it horseradish flavor.
• Young leaves are a rich source of calcium, iron, phosphorus and vitamins A, B and C.
• High in HDL (high density lipoproteins); a source of amino acids, omega oils, antioxidants.
• Young fruit yields a high amount of protein and phosphorus, a fair source of calcium and iron.

Folkloric
- Decoction of leaves used for hiccups, asthma, gout, back pain, rheumatism, wounds and sores.
- Young leaves, usually boiled, used to increase the flow of breast milk.
- Pods for intestinal parasitism.
- Leaves and fruit used for constipation.
- Decoction of boiled roots used to wash sores and ulcers.
- Decoction of the bark used for excitement, restlessness.
- In India pounded roots used as poultice for inflammatory swelling. Flowers used for catarrh, with young leaves or young pods.
- In Nicaragua decoction of roots used for dropsy.
- Roots have been used as abortifacient. In India, bark is used as abortifacient.
- Decoction of root-bark used as fomentation to relieve spasms; also, for calculous affections.
- Gum, mixed with sesamum oil, used for relief of earaches. Same, also reported as abortifacient.
- In Java, gum used for intestinal complaints.
- Roots chewed and applied to snake bites.
- Decoction of roots is considered antiscorbutic; also used in delirious patients.
- Juice of roots is used for otalgia.
- Bark used as rubefacient remedy.
- Decoction of roots is use as gargle for hoarseness and sore throat.
- Leaves used as purgative.
- Chewing of leaves used in gonorrhea to increase urine flow.
- Fresh roots used as stimulant and diuretic.
- Seeds for hypertension, gout, asthma, hiccups, and as a diuretic.
- Rheumatic complaints: Decoction of seeds; or, powdered roasted seeds applied to affected area.
- Juice of the root with milk used for asthma, hiccups, gout, lumbago.
- Poultice of leaves applied for glandular swelling.
- Pounded fresh leaves mixed with coconut oil applied to wounds and cuts.
- The flowers boiled with soy milk thought to have aphrodisiac quality.
- Root is rubefacient and plaster applied externally as counterirritant.
- In Egypt, powder from dried seeds has been used as a handwash.
- In West Bengal, India, roots taken by women, esp prostitutes, for permanent contraception (Studies have shown total inactivation or suppression of the reproductive system).
- In African savannah, used in the treatment of rheumatic and articular pains.

Others
• Dye: In Jamaica the wood is used for dyeing blue color.
• Oil: known as ben oil, extracted from flowers can be used as illuminant, ointment base, and absorbent in the enfleurage process of extracting volatile oils from flowers. |With ointments, the oil allows longer shelf life without undergoing oxidation. The oil, applied locally, has also been helpful for arthritic pains, rheumatic and gouty joints.
• Water purifier: Moringa seed powder has been used as water purifier. Its water-clarifying property has been attributed to a positively charged protein call MOPC (Moringa oleifera Cationic Protein)—the crushed seeds added to water will kill some of the microbes, clumping together, and settling at the bottom of the container.
Breast feeding women
• Malunggay leaves and pods are helpful in increasing breast milk in the breast-feeding months. One tablespoon of leaf powder provide 14% of the protein, 40% of the calcium, 23% of the iron and most of the vitamin A needs of a child aged one to three. Six tablespoons of leaf powder will provide nearly all of the woman's daily iron and calcium needs during pregnancy and breast-feeding.
• Preservation Methods: Moringa can be preserved for a long time without loss of nutrients. Leaves can be dried or frozen for storage. Preservation by dehydration improves shelf life. Study (Yang et al.) showed low temperature oven used to dehydrate the leaves retained more nutrients except vitamin C than freeze-dried leaves. )
• Dosing: Overuse may cause undue accumulation of iron. High iron can cause gastrointestinal distress and hemochromatosis. 70 g a day is suggested, a dose that prevents over accumulation of nutrients.
• Processing of Moringa: Phytochemicals are higher in raw seed flour and amino acid content was highest in fermented and germinated seed flour. Study evaluated leaves for retention of nutrients after boiling, simmering and blanching. Boiling was the most effective since it reduced the cyanide, oxalate, and phytate contents more significantly than the two other methods.

Source > Philippines Alternative Medicines

01/05/2021

103.18 WILD GIANT QUEEN OPUNTIA "Ficus Indica" aka Prickly Pear Cactus: Ancient Sustainable Method Natural to Purify Water

Over 200 years ago it is known that indigenous communities in Mexico have used the cactus knows as "Nopal" (Opuntia ficus indica) to purify the water they drink. Scientific studies have shown that the resin or goo from the cactus is a very efficient and natural way to purify the toxins in water.

Due to the need of finding natural practical methods to purify water, and considering the majority of mechanisms used nowadays are complex in its use and maintenance . Researchers at the University of South Florida in Tampa, after many tests with water contaminated with the bacteria Bacillus Cereus, came to the conclusion that after filtering this water with the syrup of the cactus, it eliminated 98% of the bacteria.

Norma Alcantar, who was responsible for the investigation confirms that any person can boil a piece of cactus to extract the syrup to use it as a filtering mechanism afterwards. The wide availability of cactus, its accesibility and cultural acceptance, make it a very viable and atractive way to lean our water.

Preparation process is simple.
1>Cut or buy a piece of Opuntia ficus-indica.
2>Slice it into pieces and boil it in water
3>With a spoon after it boils, collect and separate the gooey syrup from the cactus
4>Pour it in a container
5>Add a liter of water in the same container and wait until the sediments are filtered and collect at the bottom, neutralizing the bacteria.

24/04/2021

103.17 WILD GIANT QUEEN OPUNTIA "Ficus Indica" aka Prickly Pear Cactus - VIRUS KILLER

🌵Prickly pear cactus, is promoted for treating diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity and hangovers. It's also touted for its antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties.

🌵One of the major health benefits posed by opuntia is that it can help reduce the risk of breast, prostate, stomach, pancreatic, ovarian, cervical, and lung cancers. The flavonoid compounds present in prickly pears prevent the growth of the cancerous cells by attacking the free radical cells.

🌵According to the various researched and studies, Opuntia absorbs maximum phytochemicals from the sun the reason why even with the absence of rain in the dessert, it thrives and don’t die. When we consume Cactus our natural killer cells T-cells activity is 3 times more active in killing and destroying the VIRUS and growing cancer cells inside our body.

04/04/2021

103.16 GIANT BLACK BRONZE TURKEY aka PABO

Anti-aging ang Pabo?

11 Amazing Health Benefits of Wild crafted Turkey

Turkey a special feature in America Thanksgiving comes with amazing health benefits that includes strengthening immune system, boosting metabolism, maintaining psychological health, supporting weight loss, promoting cardiovascular health, a good source of protein, supporting teeth and bones health, maintaining cholesterol levels, managing diabetes, treating anemia and supporting healthy skin, as anti-ageing?

What is Turkey?
Turkey isn’t only a festive meal of holiday season, but it can benefit your overall well-being throughout the year. It is a powerhouse of many nutrients and contains minimum fat and cholesterol content than other meats such as beef, pork, and chicken.
You can incorporate turkey into your diet in various ways such as adding grilled leg and chest pieces of the turkey, boneless meat into your salads and sandwiches. Nutritionists recommend consuming turkey meat without skin to avoid excess calories.
Moreover, you should only opt for fresh turkey meat and avoid buying frozen one as it contains preservatives. Consuming preserved turkey can increase your sodium intake which is not considered healthy for your body.

11 Amazing Health Benefits of Turkey

1. It Strengthens Immune System
Eating turkey thigh and breast will provide you with a slew of nutrients and a boost in energy. It is loaded with potassium, protein, and selenium. When consumed regularly, the nutrients begin functioning resulting in a strengthened immune system. The selenium found in the turkey meat allows your immunity to ward off health-damaging viruses and bacterial infections.

2. Boosts Metabolism
Nutritionists recommend consuming foods that boost your metabolism. It is essential to keep your body active and energized. Moreover, studies have shown that people with an enhanced metabolism are less prone to weight gain. Thus, you can incorporate turkey into your daily diet to make this happen.
Compounds like potassium, niacin, zinc, thiamin in turkey are known to increase your metabolic rate. Turkey is also considered a whole meal due to its high nutritional value. It can work well to boost your metabolism. However, if you encounter frequent problems in this regard, you should seek professional help to identify the actual cause.

3. Maintains Psychological Health
You can find adequate levels of tryptophan in it that are essential when it comes to managing your psychological health. Various factors can affect your mental state leaving you with depression, stress, and anxiety.
Tryptophan is responsible for producing and boosting serotonin. It is a neurotransmitter found in your brain, blood platelets, and digestive tract. The latter is necessary to consume as it helps balance your mood regularly. Nutritionists suggest that serotonin deficiency could result in high levels of stress and severe depression.

4. Ideal for Weight Loss
Nutritionists not only recommend incorporating it into the diet of obese and overweight people, but they encourage eating it if you want to maintain your body weight too. That is because its meat is a powerhouse of nutrients like riboflavin, thiamin, vitamin B and C, phosphorus, protein, potassium, etc. Plus, turkey meat has no fat content.
Moreover, a single serving of grilled turkey breast contains only 23 calories that are indeed delightful for the people who want to lose weight but cannot imagine meals without meat. Therefore, incorporate turkey into your diet, reap benefits, and shed extra those pounds.

5. For Cardiovascular Health
Maintaining cardiovascular health refers to a diet packed with nourishing foods options. You can consume 2 – 3 servings of turkey in a week but avoid preparing it in excess oil. It contains zero fat content and fewer calories.
Nutritionists state that heart patients can incorporate turkey meat into their diet with regular physical activities to maintain a healthy, functioning heart. However, avoid making changes to your food without seeking professional advice.

6. A Source of Protein
Enriched with the high protein content, turkey could become your only safe and natural source to treat various skin, hair, and nail problems. These body parts are made of proteins and require frequent doses of the substance to help you steer clear of possible health complications concerning your nails and skin.
Moreover, the nutrient is also necessary to transfer oxygen to all vital organs; it impedes blood clotting and helps rejuvenate damaged cells. Therefore, you can reap plenty of health benefits only by incorporating it into your daily routine but do not forget that everything is meant to be consumed in moderation.

7. For Teeth and Bones
After calcium, vitamin D, and vitamin K, your body needs phosphorus. The mineral is necessary as it helps strengthen your bones and teeth. Apart from this, phosphorus facilitates your body to produce protein allowing it use obtained carbohydrates and fats.
You can find phosphorus in grilled or boiled turkey alike. One serving of It’s meat contains 196 milligrams of phosphorus, which can keep your bones and teeth healthy in the long term.

8. Maintains Cholesterol Levels
High cholesterol levels contribute to various cardiovascular problems. That is why nutritionists emphasize on consuming food with minimum cholesterol content. Turkey has been blessed with such a quality and like zero fat and fewer calories; it contains minimum cholesterol levels as well.
If you are prone to high cholesterol, you can still incorporate it into your diet. However, do not forget to consult with your primary care provider in this regard.

9. A Meal option for Diabetics
People with diabetes do not have much food options due to calories and sugar content in them. Studies have revealed that consuming moderate servings of turkey can be helpful to curb diabetic symptoms. That is possible mainly because it contains minimum calorie, fat, cholesterol, etc. Thus, people with diabetes shouldn’t be worried as they can consume turkey at least thrice a week and can satisfy their meat cravings.

10. Treats Anemia
People diagnosed with anemia are suggested to incorporate foods enriched with nutrients like iron. These properties promote red blood cells in your body that help ward off anemia. Consuming turkey can help in this regard as it is a powerhouse of minerals and vitamins. However, more studies are underway in this context.

11. For Healthy Skin
A well-balanced diet will show on your face and will give you supple, smooth, and fresh skin. Achieving flawless skin isn’t a tough nut to crack; it only requires consuming nutritious foods. You can reap plenty of nutrients by incorporating turkey

18/03/2021

103.16 Oriental Native Fowls aka Paraoakan aka Basilan aka Jolohanon aka Shamo aka Asil

The Increasing Popularity of the Native Chicken in the Philippines

Paraoakan of Palawan, also known as Basilan and Jolohanon. one of the many native chicken breeds found in the Philippines. These chickens are natives to Philippines. It is one of the bigger native chicken breeds in the country and that means plenty of poultry meat once they have matured. These native chickens are generally characterised by their bigger bodies, long legs, a long neck as well as a bigger head.

The true taste of chicken, one that has traditionally been used to prepare the many tasty Filipino chicken recipes. It is a niche market that is growing fast with many individual buyers and even restaurateurs now preferring the native chickens for some dishes.

During lockdown due to pandemic, we are more becoming health conscious but also ethically conscious. We know that the commercial broiler production puts a strain on the birds as they are forced to grow in small cages with a formulated diet and many don’t even get to see sunshine from the time they hatch to slaughter. Our concerns that in an attempt to minimize losses and maximize yields, many commercial producers might be abusing antibiotics and even growth hormones to boost production and some of these pass to the human system leading to antibiotic resistance. These are not just the concerns of the Filipino consumers but global poultry consumers in general. There is a general agreement that factory farming is not an unethically and healthy way to produce food.

This is one of the core factors that has driven many of us to the native chicken in the Philippines such as the Paraoakan that grow in wholly free range conditions and have full access to the outdoors for their entire lives. They free range, feed on grass and grubs and forage over a diverse diet of proteins, minerals and vitamins that produces poultry meat that is quite nutritious.

Eating native chickens such as Paraoakan native chickens improves the eating quality and leads to less lifestyle diseases. For many buyers, it means you are going to access to leaner, healthier and organically produced chicken meat that you can eat with a clean conscience and without any health concerns.

Thanks to this demand as well as the recognition of the quality of the native chicken meat, we do wild crafted nature raised that seek to improve the native breeds in order to make them more and the best feed quality and poultry husbandry techniques that they can adopt in order to boost the production of our native chickens.

The Paraoakan native chickens are valued for their flavours, aroma, structure and even the tenderness of the meat. Of the many native chicken breeds in the Philippines such as the Banaba, Joloanon among others, the Paraoakan native chickens are known to produce the best meat quality with the highest crude protein content.

03/03/2021

103.15 MAKABUHAY
Family • Menis***maceae
Makabuhay/ Tinospora crispa (L.) Hook.f. & Thomson
HEAVENLY ELIXIR
Balagbag we do wild edibles crafted with care & passion. We say no to hazardous chemicals.

Additional info
- Classified in Ayurvedic medicine as a rasayana herb, meaning "circulation of the nutrient" in Sanskrit, considered to enhance longevity, promote intelligence and prevent disease.
- Propagated by stem cuttings or seeds. Support needed for climbing.

Constituents
• Plant contains a bitter principle, colombine (2.22%); traces of an alkaloid; and a glucoside. Also contains a amorphous bitter principle, picroretine and traces of berberine.
• A study showed that the bitter extract of the stem does not contain an alkaloid.
• Leaves yielded picroretine, traces of an alkaloid, and a substance similar to glyzirrhizin.
• Bitter principle is glucosidal in nature.
• Study reported two alkaloids, tinosporine and tinosporidine. (Later studies failed to confirm these.)
• Study yielded two new diterpenes along with known compounds tinotufolin D and vitexilactone.

Properties
- Considered febrifuge, vulnerary, tonic, antimalarial, parasiticide, and insecticidal.
- Studies suggest cardiotonic, antioxidant, antidiarrheal, antimicrobial, antidiabetic, antiproliferative, hypolipidemic, antimalarial, antinociceptive properties.

Parts utilized
Stems and leaves.

Uses Edibility
• The basis of a popular preparation used as cordial, tonic, or ingredient in cocktails.

Folkloric
• Decoction of leaves and stems used for malaria and fever and as a tonic (40 gms to pint of boiling water).
• Scabies: Crush fresh stem and apply juice over the affected.
• Tropical ulcers and wound healing: Decoction of the stem as wash, or crush stem, soak in oil for 12 hours and apply oil extract on affected areas.
• Pounded stem, mixed with coconut oil, has been used for a variety of rheumatic and arthritic complaints; also for abdominal colic.
• Used for athlete's foot.
• Used for fertility regulation.
• Preparation with coconut oil use as cure for rheumatism; also for flatulence (kabag) in children.
• Decoction or powder form of plant used as febrifuge. Decoction of stem used as vulnerary for itches, ordinary and cancerous wounds.
• Aqueous extract used for treatment of stomach trouble, indigestion, and diarrhea.
• Rheumatism and flatulence: mixture of the vine with oil. Cut 100 gms of the vine in small pieces, mix with 3 ounces of coconut oil. Place in bottle and "cook" under the sun for 5-7 days.
• For stomach ulcers: stem is pounded inside a plastic bag, water is added, strained, and drank once daily. Also, stems are dried, thinly sliced, decocted, then drank.
• Used by nursing mothers to assist in weaning infants off breast-feeding. The bitter juice of the stem is applied to the ni**le area causing the infant's aversion to breast-feeding and facilitating transfer to breast feeding.
• Internally, used as tonic and antimalarial; externally, as parasiticide.
• In Malaysia, extract taken orally to treat hyperglycemia. Also, used for treatment of malaria.
• In Thailand, wood decoction used for diabetes, fever and to reduce thirst; also used as appetizer.
• In Thai folk medicine, cold infusion of seed used to treat intoxication caused by drugs or alcohol. Infusion of stem drunk as vermifuge. Decoction of stem used to wash aching eyes and syphilitic sores. Crush leaves applied to wound and made into dressing for itches. In Indonesia, used for treatment of diabetes, hypertension and backache. In Bangladesh, juice from macerated stems used used for prevention of intestinal disorders.

Others
• As pesticide (rice blackbugs, rice green leafhoppers, rice stem borers) using pounded chopped vines stirred in one liter of water and sprayed on seedlings before transplanting or soaking the seedlings overnight before transplanting.
• Makabuhay, with madre de cacao and hot red pepper extract in water sprayed on rice plants at weekly intervals.
New applications
- Being studied for it possible stimulant effect on the immune system. Anecdotal benefits for a variety of HIV-related complaints.
Recent uses and preparations
• Used Preparation of ointment: Wash and chop 1/2 glass of stem. Sauté chopped stem on low fire for about five minutes in one glass of coconut oil. Remove the stems then add half a glass of grated white candle wax. When the wax is melted, pour
into clean bottle and label. Use the ointment over the whole body, save the face area, for three consecutive nights.
Caution
Should not be used by pregnant women. Some caution use by patients with cardiac disorders.

Source: Philippine Alternative Medicines - Studies

28/02/2021

103.14 KAKAWATE aka Family • Fabaceae
Kakawate/ Gliricidia sepium (Jacq.) Steud./ ST. VINCENT'S PLUM

Balagbag we do wild edibles crafted with care & passion. We say no to hazardous chemicals.

Constituents
• Phytochemical studies have yielded a formosin (an isoflavan, reportedly with anti-tumor capacity), formononetin, gliricidin-6a-gliricidol-9a, medicarpin (pterocarpan), 7,4'-dihydroxy-3'-methoxyisoflavin, 2'O-methylsepiol, tannin, and a rihydroxyflavone.

Properties
• Tannins are considered potentially antidiarrheal, antidysenteric, antimutagenic, antioxidant, bactericidal, hepatoprotective, pesticidal and viricidal.
• Studies have suggested antimicrobial, anti-scabies, nematicidal, insecticidal, antiviral, acaricidal properties.

Parts utilized - Leaves, bark, roots.

Uses - Folkloric
- Dermatitis, skin itching: Apply juice or decoction of leaves, bark or roots on the skin as antipruritic.
- Fresh leaves applied to the skin as insect repellent.
- As counterirritant: Crush leaves and apply as poultice for rheumatic pains, sprains and closed fractures.
- Sap of bark, leaves and roots have been used for wound healing.
- Treatment of scabies.
- In Guatemala, the bark and leaves are used to treat skin diseases.
- In Guatemala and Costa Rica, bark decoction is used against bacterial and protozoal infections.
- In many folkloric regimens of other countries, used for headache, bruises, burns, colds, cough, fever, fatigue, gangrene, gonorrhea, skin itches and sores; as antidote, insecticide, insect repellent.
- In Panama, decoction of leaves used in urticaria, rash, burns, and erysipelas.
- In some parts of Nigeria, used for the treatment of sickle cell disease

Others

- Wood: Wood is hard and durable used for small housing needs, posts, implement handles and firewood. In the Tagalog areas, popularly used as a living fence or live stakes to support plantings.
- Fuel: Used as firewood or source of charcoal. Wood produces a slow burn, without sparking and with little smoke. Calorific value of a 5-year old tree is 4,550 kcal/kg.
- Fleas and ticks: Leaves have a fetid smell; crushed, used to rid dogs of fleas and ticks and cattle, of ticks. (Also read this blog: Washing Your Dog with Boiled Madre de Cacao Leaves
- Poison: Plant has found application as rodenticide and general pesticide. Leaves, seeds, or powdered bark are toxic to humans when mixed with cooked rice or maize. The mechanism of toxicity is not understood.
- Insecticidal, Antifungal, Antiviral: There is some evidence to suggest G. sepium can protect some crops from fungal, insect or viral attack directly or by acting as a diversionary host plant for pets. Studies have also suggested G. sepium mulch has a fungicidal effect. It has been used to control termite damage in Sri Lanka and stem-borer damage to rice in the Philippines. In India, the tree was found to have a positive effect on the transmission of aphids (Aphis craccivora) causing rosette disease in groundnuts.
- Insect repellent: In Latin American, used by farmers to repel insects. Leaves are ground up, mixed with water, and the resulting paste use to bathe animals, and repeated every 7 to 14 days, decreasing the infections from tropical warble fly.
- Fodder: Gliricidia sepium has a high nutrient content and great potential for animal feeding.
- Apiculture: Flowers attract honeybees; hence, an important species for honey production.

Toxicity
• Tannins: In South America, in times of scarcity, the forage is fed to livestock. Although goats can consume large quantities of plants with tannins, some animals, like cattle and sheep may not tolerate it due to a salivary protein binding factor that binds the tannins.

Source: Philippine Medicanal Alternatives

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