Scientific Name: Citrus aurantium

Description: Small, erect tree with smooth, greenish white shoots with spinescent thorns. Leaves are oblong to subelliptic, about 4 cm wide to 10 cm long, with narrowly winged petioles. Flowers are white, solitary or few clustered, smooth, and growing from the uppermost leaf axils. Fruit is spherical, 5 to 9 cm in diameter, the skin orange red and tight; partitioned inside with yellowish juice sacks.

Traditional Uses:

• Gas pains: Take decoction of rind as tea.

• Nausea and fainting: Squeeze rind near nostril for irritant inhalation.

• Dried flowers used as preventive for dysentery.

• Orange peel used in preparation of tincture of cinchona and tincture of gentian.

• Dried rind is used as tonic dyspepsia and for general debility.

• Dried rind is rubbed on the face for acne or eczema.

• Water distilled from the flowers used as stimulant.

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