• Consult with a health center for a formal diagnosis and medical advice for hypercholesterolemia, including the use of garlic to control blood cholesterol levels.
• The health care professional may advise patients to eat 2–3 garlic bulbs (soaked in vinegar, sterilized, grilled, or fried in a little oil) 3 times a day with breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Side effects: Vomiting, heartburn, diarrhea, allergies, contact dermatitis, or asthma. Not recommended for use in snake or dog bites (emergency cases). Immediately wash the wound with soap and water and bring the patient to a health center or hospital.

• Visit a health center to identify your illness, and the treatment for kidney stones, including the use of sambong leaves for medication.
• Boil the minced and freshly picked sambong leaves in a pot filled with 2 glasses of water until the pot is only left with half-filled of water. Keep the lid off the pot after bringing it to a boil.
• Let it cool completely and then strain it.
• Divide it into 3 portions. Drink 1 portion 3 times a day.
• Drink 12 glasses of water or more daily.
• Dosage of minced sambong leaves based on patient's age: 3 tablespoons (7–12 years old); 6 tablespoons (13 years old and above).

• Boil the chopped and freshly picked forest tea (tsaang-gubat) leaves in a pot containing 1 glass of water until the water is reduced to half its volume. Remove the cover of the pot when it boils.
• Measurement of chopped leaves based on age: 1½ tablespoons (7–12 years old); 3 tablespoons (13 years old or older); not recommended for children below 7 years old.
• Let it cool and then strain.
• Drink. If stomach pain symptoms persist, consult your doctor.

• Consult a health center for a formal diagnosis and medical advice for diabetes, including the use of ampalaya leaves (Makiling variety) to help control blood sugar levels.
• Health care professionals may advise patients to eat 1 cup of ampalaya leaves twice a day (as salad or as an ingredient in meals).
• Health care professionals may also advise patients to boil 2 cups of sprouts in 2 glasses of water until only half of the water is left (around 15 minutes of boiling), and to drink ⅓ of the boiled water (decoction) thrice a day (30 minutes before meals).

• Boil the grinded and freshly picked yerba buena leaves in a pot filled with 2 glasses of water until the pot is only left with half filled of water. Keep the lid off the pot after bringing it to a boil.
• Let it cool completely and then strain it.
• Divide it into 2 portions. Drink 1 portion, and drink another 1 portion after 3–4 hours if the pain still persists.
• Dosage of minced leaves based on patient's age: 3 tablespoons (7–12 years old); 6 tablespoons (13 years old and above).
• Visit a health center and consult about your illness if the toothache still persists.

• Compress or crush freshly picked leaves and use the extract in massaging the forehead and top of head.
• Consult with a health center if the headache still persists.

• Consult a doctor at a health center to diagnose your symptoms, and to know the medicine for gout including how to use pansit-pansitan to help in controlling your uric acid levels.
• The doctor may advise to eat 1 cup (not crammed) of leafy tops of pansit-pansitan thrice during the day (as a salad).
• Also, the doctor may advise to boil 1½ glasses (or 3 cups), not cramed, of pansit-pansitan in 2 glasses of water until the water reduces to half (boil for around 15 minutes), and drink the ⅓ glass of boiled water thrice in the day after eating.

• Boil 1 or 2 handfuls of leafy tops of guavas in a small pot containing water.
• Wash the wound with the lukewarm water after it has cooled. Do this twice during the day until the scabies will heal.
• Consult a doctor at a health center if the symptoms persist, if sudden fever occurs or if there is reddening of the area around the scabies.

• Crumple the fresh tops and let it be inhaled by the person experiencing dizziness.
• Consult a doctor at a health center if dizziness symptoms still persist.

• Boil one handful of leafy tops in a small pot with water.
• Gargle with the lukewarm water after it has been cooled. Do this twice during the day until your gums feel better.
• Consult a doctor at a health center if symptoms still persist or if sudden fever is developed.

• Boil one handful of leafy tops in a small pot with water.
• Wash with the lukewarm water after it has cooled.

• Boil enough leafy tops in a pot with water.
• Take a bath with the lukewarm water after it has cooled.

• Grind a sufficient amount of fresh akapulko leaves as needed.
• Apply the extract on the affected area in your skin 2 times a day. Apply it daily within 3 weeks to completely kill the fungus that causes ringworm and other fungal infections.

Reminder: If you have an allergy to the extract of Akapulko leaves, use the decoction of the leaves instead. Boil a glass of grinded and freshly picked leaves in a pot filled with 2 glasses of water until approximately 1 glass of liquid is left in the boil. Use this to wash the affected area 2 times a day. Do this for up to 3 weeks.

• Boil crushed fresh lagundi leaves in a pot with 2 cups of water until only half of the water is left. Leave the pot uncovered when it starts boiling.
• Amount of crushed leaves according to patient's age: 1½ tablespoons (2–6 years old); 3 tablespoons (7–12 years old); 6 tablespoons (13 years old and above).

• Get the seed from the parent plant and its withered fruit.
• Eat it; chew it well and follow with drinking a half full or 1 glass of water.
• Dosage of seeds to eat based on patient's age: 4–5 seeds (4–6 years old); 6–7 seeds (7–12 years old); 8–10 seeds (13 years old and above).
• If there is still no worm that came out during a bowel movement, you may use the same dosage after 1 week.
• Possible side effects especially after overeating seeds: nausea, hiccups, stomach ache, or diarrhea. Do not eat more than the recommended amount of seeds.