QUASSIA AMARA
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…
YELLOW GENTIAN GENTIANA LUTEA
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…
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…
JAMBULAN SYZYGIUM CUMINII
JAMBUL JAMBULAN, SYZYGIUM CUMINII SYZYGIUM CUMINII, Malabar plum, Java plum, jambolan is native to India, it has had several botanical names: Syzygium jambolanum, Eugenia cumini, Eugenia jambolana.It has been introduced…
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME
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…
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…
CASHEW
Anacardium occidentale, cashew (caju in Portuguese) is a small tree probably native to the arid and sandy northeast of South America but which is now present in the majority of…
YLANG YLANG
Unlike species of the Annona genus (see soursop and cinnamon apple) which are native to South America, ylang-ylang or cananga tree, CANANGA ODORATA, ANNONACEAE, is a tree from the forests…
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 ,…
LINDEN TREE LIME TREE
The LINDEN TREE or LIME TREE (TILIACEAE) are present in all the temperate regions of the world. Tilia cordata flowers These are often planted on village squares and near homes…
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