Agas-moro
Verononia cinerea Linn.

Other scientific names Common names
  Agas-moro (Ilk.) 
  Bulabod (Sub.) 
  Kolong-kugon (S.L. Bis.) 
  Magmansi (Pang.)
  Sagit (Bon.) 
  Tagulinai, tagulinay (Tag.) 
  Tagulinau (Tag.) 

·Botany
· Erect, slender, sparingly branched, somewhat pubescent annual herb 20 to 80 cm high.
· Leaves: Petioled, oblanceolate to obovate, acute or obtuse, shallowly toothed 2 to 6 cm long.
· Flowers: Bright-purple, all perfect, the corolla all equal, tubular, slender 5-lobed, about 20 in each head, twice as long as the involucral bracts. Heads small, peduncled in open, lax corymbs, about 7 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter.
· Fruits: Achenes striate, ribbed or angled; pappus hairs numerous.

Properties
Cooling, febrifuge, sedating, decongestant, anti-infectious.

Distribution
Open waste places throughout the settled areas at low and medium altitudes; common weed, flowering all the year.

Parts used
Whole plant.
Collect from May to August.
Rinse and sun-dry.

Uses:
Folkloric
· Cold, fever, cough.
· Acute jaunditic hepatitis.
· Neurasthenia, insomnia, night urination among infants, infected sores, mastitis, snake bites, sprains, furuncle.
· Dosage: 15 to 30 gms dried material (among infants, 9 to 15 gms), 30 to 60 gms fresh material in decoction. · · · · Poultice of fresh material used for eczema, carbuncle and snake bites.

Availability
Wild-crafted.