IMMUNITY MEDICINAL PLANTS
INTRODUCTION AND GENERALITIES Immunity is in its classical definition: the set of mechanisms developed by an organism to maintain good health and ensure its integrity by eliminating foreign substances and…
CHOLESTEROL MEDICINAL PLANTS
INTRODUCTION AND GENERALITIES Western societies, and countries whose standard of living is increasing, and which are adopting a "modern" high-calorie diet, rich in fats, meat and simple sugar, low in…
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…
BRAZIL NUT
Bertholettia excelsa which is also called Amazonian nut, Brazil nut in English, castanheiro do para in Brazil is a large tree of the Amazonian primary forest.It is present in Brazil…
MEDICINAL PLANTS AND DIABETES
INTRODUCTION Diabetes is the most widespread endocrine disease (or rather syndrome).It is estimated that there are more than 500 million diabetics (2023) worldwide and this figure, as well as the…
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…