ASHWAGANDHA INDIAN GINSENG
WITHANIA SOMNIFERA, SOLANACEAE, ASHWAGANDHA, INDIAN GINSENG, is a very important plant in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, and has been used for several thousand years.It is also one of the plants used…
TURKEYTAIL
Mushrooms are part of the traditional pharmacopoeias of many Asian countries. TRAMETES VERSICOLOR = CORIOLUS VERSICOLOR, POLYPORACEAE, TURKEYTAIL, is a fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine for several thousand years,…
SPIRULINA
SPIRULINA are microorganisms classified among bacteria. They are part of CYANOPHYCEAE or BLUE ALGAE but according to botanists they are not real algae. Their cellular structure and composition, their mode…
LINGZHI REISHI
The "shiny" Ganoderma, GANODERMA LUCIDUM, GANODERMATACEAE, is a basidiomycete (or "hat" fungus) which is part of a plant family with many species (about 80) that are found more in hot…
MEADOWSWEET
The MEADOWSWEET, QUEEN OF THE PRAIRIE, FILIPENDULA ULMARIA = SPIRAEA ULMARIA, ROSACEAE is naturally present in the temperate regions of Europe and as far as Central Asia to Mongolia. It…
FIELD HORSETAIL
HORSETAILS (EQUISETACEAE) are the ultimate descendants of a group of plants that proliferated several hundred million years ago (in the primary era).They are mainly present in the temperate and cold…
PURSLANE
The PORTULACACEAE are small herbaceous leaves usually fleshy sometimes succulent and whose fruit is a capsule that releases at maturity many very small seeds. COMMON PURSLANE,PORTULACA OLERACEA, is widespread and…
MADAGASCAR PERIWINKLE
Several plant from the APOCYNACEAE, provides many top - level drugs: reserpine, ajmaline, strophantine, vinblastine etc …Apocynaceae plants contain a lot of alkaloids ; all have not been studied if…
GOLDEN ROOT ROSE ROOT
RHODIOLA ROSEA or GOLDEN ROOT, ARCTIC ROOT, ROSE ROOT, CRASSULACEAE is found in the cold regions of the Northern Hemiphere, in sub-arctic areas or at higher altitudes in countries with…
COMMON WALNUT BLACK WALNUT
Walnut trees, JUGLANDACEAE, are large trees found on all continents and of which there are about twenty species. There was a walnut tree in Europe but it did not survive…