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    Traditional uses and benefits of Hugas

    By SylviaFebruary 24, 2023Updated:February 27, 2023No Comments6 Mins Read
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    Hugas scientifically known as Microglossa pyrifolia is an erect or scandent, shrubby and climbing plant belonging to Microglossa genus and Asteraceae family. The plant is native to tropical Africa, Madagascar, Bangladesh, China, Comoros Cambodia, Mayotte, Philippines, India, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia, Vietnam, Bhutan and Indonesia. Some of the well-known common names of the plants are Hugas, Maniak and Saroka.

    The plant is found growing in thickets on slopes, along forest edges, grass land, open forests, forest margins, river forests, stream banks, bush land, wastelands and edges of bamboo plantations. The plant is found growing up to 6 meter tall. Stem is branched, cylindrical becoming quickly woody. It is speckled, thickly shielded with tiny glandular hairs.

    Leaf

    Leaves are simple alternate, supported by tiny petiole about 10-15 mm long. Leaf blade is oval, about 5 to 10 cm long and 2.5 to 4 cm wide. Base is rounded and apex is acuminate. Margin is entire more or less corrugated with spaced, thinly marked teeth. Lower surface is pale green, enclosed with tiny glandular hairs, and a thick, ferruginous villosity on the veins. Upper surface is green and rough. It has a curved venation.

    Hugas Facts

    Hugas Quick Facts
    Name: Hugas
    Scientific Name: Microglossa pyrifolia
    Origin Tropical Africa, China, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Madagascar, Comoros and Mayotte
    Shapes Achene is compressed and 4-angled, with the reddish pappus about 3 millimeters long
    Health benefits Fever, headaches, colds, malaria, dermal infections , cough, elephantiasis, wounds, ophthalmia, stomach complaints, jaundice and edemas.
    Name Hugas
    Scientific Name Microglossa pyrifolia
    Native Tropical Africa, China, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Madagascar, Comoros and Mayotte
    Common Names Hugas, Maniak and Saroka
    Name in Other Languages African: Asibogo
    Chinese: Guo shan long (过山龙), Li ye xiao she ju, Jiu li ming, Ko shita kiku (小 舌 菊), Màn mián cài (蔓綿菜), Kunori Akira (九里明),  Nashi Kanō ko shita kiku (梨叶小舌菊), Xiǎo pán mù (小盘木)
    Congo: Muntantali
    East africa: Nyabungu odide
    Finnish: Pilviripsusäde
    Japanese: Shimaizuhahako (シマイズハハコ)
    Kinyarwanda: Umunyaragisaka, Nyakahe
    Kenyan: Nyabungu odide, Muhinga, Muteei, Olabai-oibor
    Malay: Ragin
    Myanman: Bizat, Bezat
    Nigerian: Anikan segbo, Anikan segbo torisa, Okbakakwu
    Papua new guinea: Gogo, Pundari
    Rundi: Umuhe, Muhe
    Tanzanian: Kichwaghwmbe, Lauhala, Mswaswaki, Uswaswaki
    Thailand: Khaa bia, tonghung, tonghong
    Vietnam: Tiểu thiệt
    Plant Growth Habit Erect or scandent, shrubby and climbing plant
    Growing Climates Thickets on slopes, along forest edges, grass land,  open forests, forest margins, river forests, stream banks, bush land,  wastelands and edges of bamboo plantations
    Plant Size Up to 6 m tall
    Stem Stem is branched, cylindrical becoming quickly woody. It is speckled, thickly shielded with tiny glandular hairs.
    Leaf Stalked, ovate-lanceolate, 3.5 to 7.5 centimeters long, pointed at both ends, and obscurely toothed at the margins.
    Flower Heads are numerous, less than 1 centimeter across, and clustered on the branches of rounded corymbs. Involucral bracts are lanceolate.
    Fruit Shape & Size Achene is compressed and 4-angled, with the reddish pappus about 3 millimeters long, or much longer than the minute achene.
    Plant Parts Used Leaves, root, root bark
    Other Facts
    • It is sometimes cultivated in gardens, probably not as an ornamental, but for its medicinal virtues.
    • They are said to be poisonous to goats in Ghana.

    Inflorescence

    Inflorescence is a set of yellowish white capitulums organized in a corymbiform panicle within the axils of the leaves or at the end of the axes. Capitulums are about 10-12 mm in length and 5 to 6 mm in diameter. At the base is a campanulate involucre of bracts organized on 4 to 5 rows. Outer bracts are membranous and ovate along with obtuse apex and about 0.7 to 2 mm long. They are enclosed with a thinner tubercular pubescence. Internal bracts are linear to lanceolate, 2 to 5 mm long, glabrous. Basal bracts are persistent. Receptacle of the capitulum is convex.

    Flower

    Outside of the capitulum are abundant ligulate florets with a filiform ligule 1 mm long. Inside the capitulum of the flower there are tubular florets, along with a tube of 2.5 mm conquered by 5 lobes.

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    Fruit

    Fruit is an obovoid, flattened achene, nearly 1 mm long along with 3 to 4 longitudinal ridges with some fine glandular hairs at the top. Pappus consists of reddish or white bristles organized on 2 to 3 rows. Those from the outside are 1 mm long and from inside are 4 mm long.

    Traditional uses and benefits of Hugas

    • Decoction of roots is used for stomachache.
    • Leaf decoction is used for colds.
    • Plant is used to cure fever in babies in Gold Coast.
    • In Liberia it is used as a cure for cough.
    • It is used in the treatment of cold and headaches in Tanzania.
    • Powdered root are used as douse to reduce colds in West Africa.
    • Root juice passed through fine linen, is used as eye drops in western tropical Africa.
    • Juice of warmed leaves is applied as cure for ringworm of the scalp.
    • Tea-like infusion is used for fever with headache.
    • Decoction is taken by women during labor.
    • Decoction of root bark and also  root is used for treating epilepsy in Tanzania.
    • Bandages soaked in root decoction are used to cure wounds of incised abscesses.
    • Juice from its root is applied to the eyes for cataracts.
    • Leaf is applied inside the nose of man and cattle to treat coryza.
    • It is also used for backwater fever, dropsy and yellow fever.
    • It is used to treat malaria in Africa.
    • Pounded roots are soaked in water and used for headache and colds in Kenya.
    • Pound leaves are used for treatment of limb fractures.
    • It is used for the treatment of wounds and dermal infections in Ghana.
    • It is used for elephantiasis, wound and cough in Rwanda.
    • Leaves are used for mastitis in Ethiopia.
    • Leaf-sap is instilled into the eye for ophthalmia and to kill filarial in Congo.
    • It is used in Ivory Coast for numerous stomach complaints, edemas and jaundice.
    • The plant is considered as cure for hookworm in E Africa.
    • In Peninsular Malaysia a Root decoction is given to treat stomach-ache.
    • Vapor produced from heated leaves is blown over sore eyes and spear wounds.
    • Bath is used to cure epilepsy, insanity and fits in children.
    • Leaf poultice is applied to inflammations, or applied on the chest to reduce pulmonary troubles.
    • Powdered root is used locally as a snuff to reduce colds or as a local anodyne.
    • Leaves, roots and above ground is used for treatment of meningitis by Bench people.
    • Leaves are used for treatment of hard swelling on the skin by Meinit people and for treatment of jaundice and herpes by Sheko people.

    References:

    http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/gcc-26588

    https://portal.wiktrop.org/species/show/366

    https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.upwta.1_968

    https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/282143#uses

    https://uses.plantnet-project.org/en/Microglossa_pyrifolia_(PROSEA)

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    Hugas Scientific Classification

    Scientific Name: Microglossa pyrifolia

    Rank Scientific Name & (Common Name)
    Kingdom Plantae (Plants)
    Subkingdom Tracheobionta (Vascular plants)
    Infrakingdom Streptophyta  (land plants)
    Division Magnoliophyta
    Class Magnoliopsida
    Order Asterales
    Family Asteraceae
    Sub Family Asteroideae
    Tribe: Astereae
    Sub Tribe Baccharidinae
    Genus Microglossa
    Species Microglossa pyrifolia
    Synonyms
    • Conyza heudelotii Oliv. & Hiern
    • Conyza pyrifolia Lam.
    • Conyza syringifolia Meyen & Walp.
    • Conyza volubilis Wall.
    • Erigeron pyrifolius (Lam.) Benth.
    • Frivaldia volubilis Zoll. & Moritzi
    • Microglossa petiolaris DC.
    • Microglossa volubilis DC.
    • Microglossa volubilis subsp. volubilis
    • Microglossa volubilis var. volubilis
    • Pluchea subumbellata Klatt
    • Psiadia volubilis Baill.
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