Pandakaki
Tabernaemontana pandacaqui · Banana bush
The plant today
Tabernaemontana pandacaqui, known as windmill bush and banana bush, is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae.
Excerpt from “Tabernaemontana pandacaqui” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recorded in the Philippines
GBIF holds 1,285 records of this plant from the Philippines. The ones with map coordinates fall in 54 provinces, most often Isabela (21), Palawan (14), Samar (13), Batangas (12), Oriental Mindoro (12), Bataan (11), Occidental Mindoro (11), Batanes (9), and 46 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.
- EczemaLeaf decoction as a hot foot bath.Boil 3 cups of chopped leaves in a gallon of water for 10 minutes, then add 2 gallons of hot water.Page 23
Summarised from Herminia de Guzman-Ladion, Healing Wonders of Herbs (Manila: Philippine Publishing House, 1985), where this plant is shown as “Pandakaki-puti” on page 117. 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 2018 that name this plant in the abstract, pulled from Europe PMC in October 2026. Titles are the authors' own and the findings have not been reviewed here.
- Discovery of Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloids Targeting CCN1 to Suppress Autophagy for the Treatment of Hypoxic Kidney Injury
- Inhibition of mitochondrial over-division by (+)-14,15-Dehydrovincamine attenuates cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury via the JNK/Mff pathway