Boil the young coconuts that have juice in them, let it cool down,and then drink it to dissolve blood clots, hematoma, and bruises
This plant can heal sore eyes. The process is that a fruit is pounded, placed in a piece of cloth and squeezed into eyes.
Soursop is a traditional herbal medicine , the fruit and leaves of the tree are used to relieve digestive ailments (including diarrhea), pain, hypertension, inflammation, fever, coughs, and asthma, among many other medical afflictions.
At out house , whenever my daughter have an upset stomach or vomiting , I use the leave of soursop to help her stop vomiting . I just crumpled the leave then leave them near her so she can inhale the aroma of the leave . After few hours , the feeling of vomit disappeared.
Lime tree in English, it's pohnpei name is karer. From the fruits to its leaves, it can be used in various ways. For example, the fruits can be used as a drink called suwangke that is mixed with water and sugar. When the leaves are boiled, can they be said to be able to slow down chronic illnesses such as diabetes. Leaves are also boiled in umwulap to cure a clogged nose.
Guavas is a fruit. It is called kuapa in our language. Both the fruit and the leaves are useful. When having diarrhea you can eat the fruit to stop it. As for the leaves, people use them especially women boil the leaves and sit in the water to help them stop bleeding after giving birth.
This is a hibiscus tree. You can use hibiscus leafs to heal yourself if you have UTI(paikin). If you feel pain or having difficulties to urinate, all you have to do is, find a hibiscus tree and get the leafs as many as you can. It must be more than 20 but the fold ones. Bounce it and put it in a piece of cloth and squeeze it in a cup of water then drink it. It will stop the pain and you will be able to urinate again.
This is Guava. It is known for various medicinal uses but is mostly known for curing diarrhea.
You take 4 or 8 young leaves, chew, then u swallow the juice not the leaves.
Piper ponapense is known as Konok or Koanoak in Pohnpei. It has a healing remedy treatment for pinkeye. The leaves can also be boiled and inhaled to clean out the immune system. Additionally, it is wrapped around peoples head, used as mwaramwar during cultural events.
To use it to heal pinkeye is very simple. First, you must cut down a vine, preferably one that is thick. Once you have your piece of vine, have the person lay down. Grab one end of the vine and blow it straight into their eye. A liquid should drip out from the vine and that is what helps with pinkeye. This process is repeated daily until pinkeye heals
Once the liquid is dropped into the eye, the person should lay there for about five minutes for the liquid to have an effect.
In pohnpei this plant is called “ihlau”. It’s an healing plants and it’s mostly used for fevers and flu. So when someone has a fever they boil the leaves and put it under a blanket and the sick person goes under the blanket and wait until the leaves cool down. However some uses for babies when they cough.
This is used for healing boil or scratch marks when use small crumbled leave and dip it with coconut oil and cover where the boil or scartch marks are.
Citrus (lime) is used to cure your coughing sickness. On Pohnpei the plant is known as karer.
To use, get four top parts of the plant, make sure it's the young ones, which needs to be having four leaves on it like the one in the last picture.Boil a pot of water. Then put your top parts of the plants in the hot water so it can mix up in the water. Drink for four days.
Sei
In pohnpei, the plant commonly known as Tehn Sei is used for it's healing properties. One method to alleviate persistent vomiting is to inhale the scent of its leaves, which helps soothe your nerves.
This plant we Pohnpeian called it Ilau. I think this plant is dicot. It can cure Headache. All you have to do is put the leaves in baisin. Then you boiled the water and filled it in the baisin. After that, cover yourself with a sheet and breathe the steam. This kind of treatment is called umwulap.
Beach naupaka is being used as a healing medicine for kidney stone. In Pohnpei it is called remek. This plant can also be used for pink eye or abortion. But mostly it is being used to cure kidney stone. This plant can be easily found on small islands.
When used, take 4 or 6 leaves and clean the leaves. Then put them in pot half full of water then boil it. After 2 or 3 hours when the water turned into different color or basically green, then it is done. Pour the water in a container then drink it. This treatment will be lasted 8 days.