Ikmo
Piper betle

Common Names:
 Bicol: Buyo, Buyo-buyo
Ilocos: Gaued
Pampanga:Samat
Pangasinan: Gawed
Spanish: Anis
Sulu: Buyu
Tagalog: Buyo-anis, Ikmo , ikmong Iloko, itmo, Mamin
Visaya: Buyok, Kanisi, Mamin, Mamon

Folkloric uses: 

  • Rheumatic bone pains

  • Gastric pain due to exposure to wind, indigestion.

  • Bronchial asthma.

  • Dosage: use 9 to 15 gms dried material or 30 to 60 gms fresh material in decoction.

  • Applied as a poultice (dikdik-tapal) on the stomach of infants for colic; for skin inflammation

  • Others: Dabbed with small amounts of apog (lime) and wrapped around a betel nut, chewed as "nga-nga."

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