Importance Of Kamias

Plants provide nutritional factors to the human body. Fruits and vegetables are good for our health. But aside from eating or make it a dessert it is also the main source of drugs that is being use from the ancient times as herbal remedies for the health care, prevention and cure of various diseases and ailments. Plants were used by our ancestors to prevent some kind of diseases. Use of various plants parts like its bark, flowers, fruit, seeds, roots, leaves or let’s say the whole plant as such for medical purpose is been a long tradition in different culture. Use of plants as a medicine is being used not only by the Filipino but also other country like Malaysia. Our ancestors used plants as their medicine when they get sick because in their time no ready-made medicine is available so they need to use the parts of plants as cure for their illnesses. Plants are very useful not also as food but also as medicine. One of the herbal medicine is averrhoa bilimbi also known as kamias in Filipino. Kamias is used for the

Kolonanas (Tag) and Ta-Ling-Pring (Thai). Classification of Kamias Kamias belongs to the kingdom of plants. It belongs to the subkingdom of vascular plants. Seed plants are their superdivision while their division is flowering plants. Dicotyledonae is their class and Rosidae is their subclass. It is in the order of oxalidales. They belong to the family of Oxalidaceae and have a genius of Averrhoa. It belongs to the species of Bilimbi L. . The Kamias, is almost the same as Carambola but quite different in appearance , manner of fruiting, flavor and uses. The only strictly English names are “Cucumber Tree” and “Tree Sorrel”. The chemical constituents of Kamias include amino acids, citric acids, vitamin A, phenolics, potassium ion, sugar and