Sibukaw (Caesalpinia sappan) Health Benefits

SIBUKAW WOOD HEALTH BENEFITS* -Decoction of wood and bark used for- ✓Hypertension/Highblood ✓Diabetes ✓Treats Hepatitis Problem ✓Kidney problem

✓UTI ✓Dialysis Patient ✓Binat ✓Anemia ✓Good for the heart health ✓Nervous disorders ✓Tuberculosis ✓Atonic Diarrhea

✓Dysentery ✓Postpartum tonic ✓Skin Infections ✓Cold and Cough ✓Bone Marrow Problem ✓Heart Diseases ✓Stomach Aches/Ulcers ✓Good for Respiratory Ailments (ashma) ✓Cures wounds ✓Dysmenorrhea ✓Pricking Pain in the Chest and Abdomen, ✓Prostate Enlargement ✓Arthritis/Gout ✓Cancer ✓Inflammatory Complaints

Sapang is a small tree, 3 to 5 meters high, with scattered spines. Leaves are compound, up to 50 centimeters long. Pinnae are about 20, opposite, and 10 to 20 centimeters long. Leaflets are 20 to 30, obliquely oblong to oblong-rhomboid. Flowers are yellow, on terminal panicles, 2 to 2.5 centimeters in diameter with densely wooly filaments. Fruit is a hard, indehiscent, shiny pod, about 7 centimeters long, and 3.5 to 4 centimeters wide, with a hard recurved beak at the upper angle.

Distribution
- Locally abundant throughout the Philippines at low and medium altitudes in dry thickets, parang, etc.
- Introduced, and probably of prehistoric introduction.
- Also occurs in India through Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, southern China to Malaysia.

Source: Stuartxchange.org