The Philippine medicinal plant entrees now number more than 1150. There are three separate listing of medicinal plants: a Tagalog list, an English list for those plants with English designations, and a Chinese list, for the medicinal plants with Chinese names. English names are included in the Tagalog lists for plants that have not acquired local names.

The red- and bold-fonted names are the original ten medicinal plants promoted by the Department of Health.

For quite a number of plants, there may be a confusing similarity in common names shared by plants of different species, or different names for the same plant in the same region or tribe, or confusing variations in the common names of the same specie of plant. (See: Plant Names) Of interesting note, is the variety and seemingly amusing origins of the common names, which in itself presents as an interesting etymological study. Frequent updates are done for photos, folkloric info, research studies and addition of new plants.