Sida Sp.

Philippine medicinal plants
Botany
Ualisualisan is an erect, branched, slightly hairy or neary smooth, half-woody shrub growing to a height of a meter or less. Leaves are lanceolate, 3 to 5centimeters long, with toothed margins, pointed tip and blunt or rounded base. Flowers are yellow, about 1.3 centimeters in diameter, borne singly at the axils of the leaves. Fruit is a capsule about 3.5millimeters long, with two projections and consists of 4 to 9 carpels enclosed by the calyx.
Distribution
- Weed found in open places throughout the Philippines.
- Pantropic.
Parts utilized
Leaves.Constituents
- Roots contain asparagin. 
- Leaves contain saponin.
Properties
- Plant considered abortifacient, anthelmintic, and antiemetic.
- Leaves considered demulcent, diuretic,anthelmintic, vulnerary. 
- Roots considered a bitter tonic, aphrodisiac, antipyretic, antirheumatic, demulcent, diaphoretic, stomachic and vulnerary.

Uses
Folkloric 
- Poultices made from boiled leavesare applied to ulcers and sores.
- Decoction of roots and leaves are emollient; taken internally for hemorrhoids, fever, impotency and as a tonic.
- Decoction also used as demulcent; for gonorrhea andrheumatism.
- Roots use as stomachic and antipyretic.
- Decoction or infusion used for fevers, dyspepsia and debility.
- An infusion with ginger added is given in intermittent fevers and chronicbowel complaints, a teacupful twice a day.
- Root juice, sugared or mixed with honey, used to expel worms.
- Juice of leaves, mixed with honey, given for dysentery and chest pains.
- Fresh juice ofroots applied to wounds and ulcers to promote healing.
- In the Yucatan, decoction of roots used for vomiting of blood; decoction of leaves used for fever.
- In India, seeds are given for enlargedglands and for inflammatory swellings.
- In Togo, West Africa, leaves used for eczema, kidney stones, headache.
- In Indian traditional medicine, used for treating liver disorders, urinary disease...