AYAPANA TRIPLINERVIS=EUPATORIUM AYAPANA=EUPATORIUM TRIPLINERVIS=AYAPANA TRIPLINERVE ASTERACEAE The botanical genus Ayapana includes severals herbaceous plants native to South America.Some of them are traditionally used in South America and the West Indies.Ayapana…
ARBUTUS UNEDOERICACEAE The strawberry tree is a small tree or shrub native to the western Mediterranean region (North Africa, Iberian Peninsula, France, Italy) but which acclimatizes easily and can become…
CORDIA MIXA (LASURA, LASORA, INDIAN CHERRY, ASSYRIAN PLUM, LA COLLE SAVON, SEBASTIER) CORDIA DICHOTOMA = CORDIA OBLIQUA (CLAMMY CHERRY, INDIAN CHERRY, ABRE A COLLE)CORDIA COLLOCOCA (RED MANJACK, CANDELERO, MAPOU RIVYE)CORDIA…
QUASSIA AMARA or bitterwood, quassia from Surinam, quassia from Guyana The South American quassia is part of the Simaroubaceae family. This plant family is mainly present in tropical regions with…
The yellow gentian is part of a genus, gentianaceae, which according to botanists includes at least 400 species all over the world.They are generally small plants with blue flowers while…
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…
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 ,…
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…
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…
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…