Studies have shown that amaranths are good source of medicinal cure that can be beneficial to lactating mothers and use to treat patients with fever, hemorrhage, anemia and kidney complaints. Kulitis can be found almost everywhere in any land of the tropics. Its prominence goes along with other weeds and to people who cannot readily recognize the beneficial plant where many people think that kulitis is just but an ordinary specie of weeds.

1. The weed: Beneficial plant
Uray also known as kulitis (Amaranthus Spinosus L.) is a stout, erect, smooth, branched herb, 0.4
to 1 meter high. Stems are armed with slender, axillary spines. (The presence of spines differentiates it
from kolitis (Amaranthus viridis). Leaves are glabrous, long-petioled, oblong to oblong ovate, or elliptic-
lanceolate, 4 to 10 centimeters long, obtuse, alternate.
Flowers are very numerous, stalkless, green or greening-white, about 1 millimeter long, and borne in
dense, axillary clusters and in elongated terminal axillary spikes. Sepals are 5 or 1-3, ovate to linear, often
aristate. Petals are scarious. Bracts are linear, bristle-pointed and as long as the sepals or longer.
Fruits are utricles, wrinkled, nearly as long as the sepals. Seeds are minute, black and shining.
In Philippine, Kulitis is known in various dialects as tampala, uray, kuyapa or kujapa; internationally it
is known as Chinese spinach and pig weed in the US. It is considered to be the highest tropical yielding
leaf plant with excellent nutritional value.
The plant is rich in calcium, iron and vitamin A.
However, this is considered most numbered plants in the school of Socorro Central Elementary
School and SpEd Center for everybody can see this plants, other pupils think this is a troublesome weed
easily grow in the yard and in the garden. But the fact is that this plant has many health benefits.
Studies have shown that amaranths are good source of medicinal cure that can be beneficial to
lactating mothers and use to treat patients with fever, hemorrhage, anemia and kidney complaints.
Kulitis can be found almost everywhere in any land of the tropics. Its prominence goes along with other
weeds and to people who cannot readily recognize the beneficial plant where many people think that
kulitis is just but an ordinary specie of weeds.
The wind and the birds are commended for its proliferation aside from that it can grow even in
poor soils and are drought resistant. It grows even faster and abundantly on rainy days.
The benefits that can be derived from the plant are almost unknown to young and middle aged
people except for those who are seventy years old and above. The plant can be easily propagated and
therefore it can be advantageous to would be growers and farmers as a good source of income in as
much that it is not readily available in the market.