AIBIKA ABELMOSCUS MANIHOT
AIBIKA ABELMOSCUS MANIHOT OR HIBISCUS MANIHOT food and dietary plant with its edible leaves and medicinal plant easy to cultivate Pacific cabbage or aibika, bele or pele in the South…
JAMBULAN SYZYGIUM CUMINII
JAMBUL JAMBULAN, SYZYGIUM CUMINII SYZYGIUM CUMINII, Malabar plum, Java plum, jambolan is native to India, it has had several botanical names: Syzygium jambolanum, Eugenia cumini, Eugenia jambolana.It has been introduced…
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME, MUCOSAL COLITIS, SPASTIC COLITIS, COLON FUNCTIONAL DISORDERS: Symptoms, treatment and use of medicinal plants and essential oils INTRODUCTION When a disease has many different names it means…
GREATER CELANDINE CHELIDONIUM MAJUS
GREATER CELANDINE CHELIDONIUM MAJUSAND THE THEORY OF SIGNATURES To guide themselves in the use of medicinal plants, humans often look for “magical” correspondences between plants (their shape, their color, the…
BRAZIL NUT
Bertholettia excelsa which is also called Amazonian nut, Brazil nut in English, castanheiro do para in Brazil is a large tree of the Amazonian primary forest.It is present in Brazil…
QUEENSLAND NUT or MACADAMIA
Macadamia is native to eastern Australia (including the state of Queensland), it is a Proteaceae, a family of plants from the southern hemisphere mainly present in Australia, New Caledonia, South…
CYSTITIS, URINARY INFECTIONS
CYSTITIS, URINARY INFECTIONS, MEDICINAL PLANTS AND ESSENTIAL OILS INTRODUCTION Common urinary tract infections of the lower urinary tract are common and can be treated with herbal medicine and aromatherapy.Those that…
ASTHMA AND MEDICINAL PLANTS
ASTHMA AND ITS TREATMENTWITH SYNTHETIC DRUGS,MEDICINAL PLANTS AND ESSENTIAL OILS INTRODUCTION Asthma is an “inflammatory” disorder of the airways (1) characterized by inflammation of the bronchi with increased mucus production…
OBESITY and OVERWEIGHT
Obesity and overweight are mainly linked to the existence of an energy imbalance: we eat too much, too fat, too sweet, while our physical activity and therefore our energy needs…
MEDICINAL PLANTS AND DIABETES
INTRODUCTION Diabetes is the most widespread endocrine disease (or rather syndrome).It is estimated that there are more than 500 million diabetics (2023) worldwide and this figure, as well as the…