OSTEOARTHROSIS RHEUMATISM
INTRODUCTION AND GENERALITIES There are several hundred joints in our body, some must be able to support significant loads (per cm2 of articular surface) while ensuring flexible and permanent movement…
RUE RUTA GRAVEOLENS
RUE RUTA GRAVEOLENS, MEDICINAL PLANT, MAGIC PLANT, TOXIC PLANT There are several hundred species of RUTA, RUTACEAE, in temperate and subtropical regions.RUTA GRAVEOLENS, rue, common rue or herb-of-grace, and RUTA…
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…
COMMON GRAPE VINE
Many Vitaceae are tendril vines or climbing shrubs whose fruits are berries.They are well represented in arm regions.The genus Vitis comes from the northern hemisphere and is found from America…
BREADFRUIT
Moraceae are essentially trees of hot regions, rarely herbs or shrubs; there are 60 genera and more than 1000 species.Almost all of these plants secrete a white or colorless, sometimes…
TAMARIND
Indigenous to Africa, the TAMARIND TREE,TAMARINDUS INDICA, CAESALPINIACEAE, is found in the wild in dry savannahs; it was introduced a long time ago in India then dispersed by the Arabs…
TAMANU TEMANU
Tropical-equatorial plants, CLUSIASEAE are essentially trees or shrubs, sometimes epiphytes, "strangling" their support and developing aerial roots (genus Clusia). Most often large trees in the rainforest, swampy coasts or along…
WHITE WILLOW
There are about 400 species of willows mainly present in the temperate and cold regions of the northern hemisphere.White willow is present throughout continental Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia,…
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…
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…