banaba
banabâ with stress marks
tropical tree used for medicinal tea
Usage Note
Banaba (Lagerstroemia speciosa) is a flowering tree native to the Philippines and Southeast Asia, widely used in traditional herbal medicine. Its leaves are brewed as a tea believed to help manage blood sugar levels, and banaba tea products are commercially sold in the Philippines and exported. It blooms with showy pink-purple flowers and is also planted ornamentally.
Examples
" Umiinom ako ng tsaang banaba. "
Natural Translation
I drink banaba tea.
Literal Translation
Drinking I of tea-banaba.
" Iniinom ng lola ko ang tsaa ng banaba para sa kanyang asukal sa dugo. "
Natural Translation
My grandmother drinks banaba tea for his/her blood sugar.
Literal Translation
Drinks the grandmother my the tea of-the banaba for the his/her sugar in blood.
" Sinasabi ng mga albularyo na nakakatulong ang dahon ng banaba sa pagpapababa ng asukal sa dugo kapag ito ay regular na iniinom. "
Natural Translation
Traditional healers say that banaba leaves help lower blood sugar when they are drunk regularly.
Literal Translation
Saying of the healers that helping the leaf of banaba in lowering of sugar in blood when this is regularly drunk.
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