Mansanilya
Chrysanthemum indicum · Indian chrysanthemum
- Names in the book
- English: Indian chrysanthemum; Tagalog: Mansanilya
- Colours
- floweryellow
- Native range
- China, Korea and Japan
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Printed as
- Chrysanthemum indicum L.
- Sources
- Healing Wonders of Herbs (1985), page 112 · Wikipedia
The plant today
Chrysanthemum indicum is a flowering plant commonly called Indian chrysanthemum, within the family Asteraceae and genus Chrysanthemum.
Excerpt from “Chrysanthemum indicum” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recorded in the Philippines
GBIF holds 34 records of this plant from the Philippines. The ones with map coordinates fall in 10 provinces, most often Batanes (3), Isabela (3), Aurora (3), Leyte (2), Pangasinan (2), Bataan (1), Benguet (1), Maguindanao (1), and 2 more.
Counts from GBIF occurrence records, October 2026. They include planted trees and garden plants, and a province with no records may only lack collectors.
What the 1985 book uses it for
A record of home remedies from 1985, with the book's amounts and doses reworded. It is not medical advice.
- CoughDecoction of leaves and flowers, drunk.Boil 1 cup of chopped dried leaves and flowers, or a cup and a half of fresh, in 2 glasses of water for 15 minutes. Adults take half a cup every 4 hours. Children every 4 hours: babies 1 teaspoon, ages 2 to 6 2 tablespoons, ages 7 to 12 a quarter cup.Page 20
- Flatulence or gas painCrushed leaves in coconut oil rubbed on the abdomen.Cover with a binder and leave overnight, or for at least 4 hours.Page 26
- Headaches due to sinusitisHeated leaves with coconut oil laid on the forehead and cheeks.Crush 5 fresh leaves, add 2 drops of coconut oil and heat over a flame without scorching. Apply hot for 30 minutes at bedtime.Page 27
Summarised from Herminia de Guzman-Ladion, Healing Wonders of Herbs (Manila: Philippine Publishing House, 1985), where this plant is shown as “Mansanilya” on page 112. The book is in copyright, so its wording and photographs are not reproduced. Amounts are the book's, restated.
Recent research
The most cited papers since 2022 that name this plant in the title, pulled from Europe PMC in October 2026. Titles are the authors' own and the findings have not been reviewed here.
- Dimeric guaianolide sesquiterpenoids from the flowers of Chrysanthemum indicum ameliorate hepatic steatosis through mitigating SIRT1-mediated lipid accumulation and ferroptosis
- Genomic insights into the evolution of flavonoid biosynthesis and O-methyltransferase and glucosyltransferase in Chrysanthemum indicum
- Developing a UV-visible reporter-assisted CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing system to alter flowering time in Chrysanthemum indicum