STRAWBERRY TREE
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…
COSTUS INSULIN PLANTS
INSULIN PLANTS VEGETABLE INSULINS Costus Pictus Chamaecostus cuspidatus CHAMAECOSTUS CUSPIDATUS = COSTUS IGNEUS = COSTUS CUSPIDATUSCOSTUS PICTUS = COSTUS MEXICANUSCOSTACEAE Costaceae are plants that are most often tropical and quite…
AIBIKA ABELMOSCUS MANIHOT
AIBIKA ABELMOSCUS MANIHOT OR HIBISCUS MANIHOT food and dietary plant with its edible leaves and medicinal plant easy to cultivate Pacific cabbage or aibika, bele or pele in the South…
CYSTITIS, URINARY INFECTIONS
CYSTITIS, URINARY INFECTIONS, MEDICINAL PLANTS AND ESSENTIAL OILS INTRODUCTION Common urinary tract infections of the lower urinary tract are common and can be treated with herbal medicine and aromatherapy.Those that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
COMMON NETTLE SMALL NETTLE
NETTLES, URTICACEAE,are common plants in temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. They are remarkable plants because they are stinging !! The stems and leaves indeed have very fine, sharp and…