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…
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,…
TOBACCO
NICOTIANA TABACUM and NICOTIANA RUSTICA, SOLANACEAE, originate from the "new world", ie tropical and subtropical zones of North and South America. The use of tobacco leaves by the Amerindians was…
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…
AFRICAN PEAR NSAFU
The AFRICAN PEAR or BUSH BUTTER TREE, DACRYODES EDULIS, BURSERACEAE, is a tree with edible oleaginous fruits which grows naturally in Central Africa in the humid tropico-equatorial zone from sea…
ROSEMARY
ROSEMARY, SALVIA ROSMARINUS = ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS, LABIATEAE=LAMIACEAE is a Mediterranean plant.It is a shrub, quite bushy, with small and narrow leaves with their upper surface convex a little shiny, the…
CASTOR OIL PLANT
EUPHORBIACEAE are plants of varied appearance, from grasses to large trees, distributed all over the world but numerous in warm countries.They often contain latex, white or colorless, which is sometimes…
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…
LIQUORICE LICORICE
LIQUORICE, LICORICE or cultivated licorice GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA, FABACEAE, is a perennial plant by its root which reaches 1m to 1m50, the flowers are grouped in erect clusters, of a more…
RADISH
The large plant family of brassicales or BRASSICACEAE(formerly cruciferous) includes the genus raphanus (mainly the various radishes and wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum) and other genera also interesting because they include…