FLU MEDICINAL PLANTS ESSENTIAL OILS
FLU AND ITS TREATMENT BY MEDICINAL PLANTS AND ESSENTIAL OILS INTRODUCTION AND GENERALITIES Influenza or rather influenza virus infections are highly contagious, responsible each year for epidemics or even a…
IMMUNITY MEDICINAL PLANTS
INTRODUCTION AND GENERALITIES Immunity is in its classical definition: the set of mechanisms developed by an organism to maintain good health and ensure its integrity by eliminating foreign substances and…
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…
WORMWOOD ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM
WORMWOOD, ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM, ASTERACEAE is a plant native to Europe, temperate Asia and North Africa but which has become acclimatized in North America and other countries with a similar climate.It…
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…
BITTER LEAF VERNONIA
The ASTERACEAE, are an immense family of flowering plants which contains several hundred botanical genera including the genus Vernonia = Gymnanthenum which also includes hundreds of species in Asia ,…
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,…
THYME
THYMES, LABIATEAE=LAMIACEAE, are small bushy plants, erect (common thyme) or more spreading and creeping (wild thyme), typical of the Mediterranean region where they grow naturally. Common Thyme, THYMUS VULGARIS, is…
TEA TREE
The TEA TREE, MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA, MYRTACEAE is endemic to areas of eastern Australia (north of New South Wales to Queensland).It has been introduced in countries with a similar climate (USA,…
BLACK ELDERBERRY
The BLACK ELDERBERRY, SAMBUCUS NIGRA, CAPRIFOLIACEAE is a shrub very widespread in Europe (it tolerates the cold like the heat, the humidity like the drought), it can reach 4 to…