How many bones do I have in my body?

THE HUMAN SKELETON IS MADE UP OF ABOUT 200 SEPARATE BONES.

Like a building, your body, your body is supported by a firm framework.

This framework is made of bone and is called a skeleton.  It is made up of about 206 separate bones.

Human Skeleton

Sixty-four of these bones are in your hands and arms alone.  Oddly enough, a baby may have as many as 350 bones.  As a child grows older, some bones grow together to form single bones.

Your bones grow in different shapes and sizes.  Some are long and tubular, like an arm or leg bone.  They can be flat, like the bones in your head and hips, or ring-shaped like the bones in your spine.

Your biggest bones are your strong thighbones.  Your smallest bones are the three tiny bones in the inner ear.

Joints between most bones allow your body to bend and twist.  The bones are held together at the joints by bands of tough tissue called ligaments.

Your muscles pull on the bones and make them move when you walk or run. – Dick Rogers

KAPOK (Ceiba pentandra)

Good morning everyone. Another tree with medicinal value found in the Philippines. I’m sure if many have this plant you can use it to cure some ailments. There are a total of 96 Philippine medicinal trees under 83 genera and 38 families. I want to share the most seen trees here.

This is an erect, deciduous tree, 15 m high. The trunk is cylindrical, usually bearing scattered, large spines. The branches are in distant whorls, and spread horizontally. The leaves are compound with 5-8 lanceolate leaflets, 6-15 cm long, pointed on both ends.

Medicinal Value:

■ The bark is used as a vomitive and diuretic. It is used to treat ever and diarrhea. It is also applied on wounds and swollen fingers.

■ A decoction of the flowers is used for constipation.

■ An infusion of the leaves is used for cough, hoarseness, intestinal catarrh and urethritis. The tender leaves are administered for gonorrhea.

■ The unripe fruit is regarded as a demulcent (soothing medicine, provides a protective coating on mucus membranes) and astringent.

■ A tender fruit used as emollient.

■ A decoction of the roots is given for chronic dysentery, diarrhea, ascites (abnormal accumulation of serious fluid in the abdominal cavity) and anasarca (edema characterized by accumulation of serum in the connective tissue of the body).

■ The gum is an astringent and useful as a styptic (having a harsh acrid, flavor). It is given with milk as a cooling laxative to children. It is also used for incontinence of urine of children.