Scientific Name: Dolichos labiab Linn.

Description: A climbing or trailing vine, 4 to 6 m long, with a smooth, usually purple stem. Leaves are long stalkd, with 3 inequilateral leaflets, each about 4 to 10 cm long. Flowers are in clusters, white to purple in color, along an erect inflorescence stalk. The pods are purple-margined, flat, and elongated with a prominent beak, about 7.5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide.

Traditional Uses:

• A poultice of the leaves mixed with rice-flowers and tumeric used for eczema.
• Poultice of leaves for snake bites.
• Infusion of leaves for colic.
• Juice of the leaves mixed with lime, applied to tumors and abscesses.

Excerpts from: "An illustrated compilation of Philippine medicinal plants by Godofredo Stuart"