Tawa tawa or gatas gatas plants is being studied for its well known benefits in curing Dengue fever.
Tawa tawa or Gatas -gatas Weeds
Is tawa-tawa or gatas gatas weeds considered as herbal plants? This is the hottest question until now. Curiosity and news about this wild grass started to spread because people started using it as an alternative medicine to cure Dengue fever. Although there is no scientific bases that this plants can cure Dengue fever, it has lots of good properties such as anti-asthmatic, antidote, anti-spasmodic, anthelmintic, antidysenteric, diuretic, expectorant, pectoral, hemostatic, sedative, soporific. This plants can easily be found anywhere along the streets.
Continuous study on this amazing plants should be done so that it can be considered as herbal plants to cure dengue fever and other similar illness.