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…
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 ,…
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…
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,…
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…
STEVIA
STEVIA, STEVIA REBAUDIANA, ASTERACEAE, is native to the tropical and warm temperate zone of South America: Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil.It is a small perennial plant, herbaceous then shrub…
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…
COMMON SAGE
There are several hundred species of sage throughout the world; in Europe it is the COMMON SAGE, SALVIA OFFICINALIS, LABIATEAE = LAMIACEAE, which is the most used as a medicinal…
SAPODILLA CHIKOO
The SAPODILLA TREE, MANILKARA ZAPOTA = ACHRAS SAPOTA, SAPOTACEAE, is a fruit tree native to southern Mexico (Yucatan) and the neighboring countries, Belize and Guatemala. It is now widespread in…