🏝️Filipino Traditional Medicine
Butterfly Pea (Blue Ternate)
Clitoria ternatea
About Butterfly Pea (Blue Ternate)
Butterfly Pea (Blue Ternate) (Clitoria ternatea) is a herb used in the Filipino Traditional Medicine tradition to help with Memory, Anxiety, Eye Health, and Hair Loss, among 1 other condition it addresses. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Clitoria ternatea, commonly known as Asian pigeonwings, bluebellvine, blue pea, butterfly pea, cordofan pea and Darwin pea, is a plant species belonging to the Fabaceae family. The flowers of this vine were imagined to have the shape of human female genitals, hence the Latin name of the genus "Clitoria", from "clitoris". (Synonyms: Clitoris principissae.).
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist
Parts used
Aerial Parts · internalLeaves · internal