FLU MEDICINAL PLANTS ESSENTIAL OILS
FLU AND ITS TREATMENT BY MEDICINAL PLANTS AND ESSENTIAL OILS INTRODUCTION AND GENERALITIES Influenza or rather influenza virus infections are highly contagious, responsible each year for epidemics or even a…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
TAMANU TEMANU
Tropical-equatorial plants, CLUSIASEAE are essentially trees or shrubs, sometimes epiphytes, "strangling" their support and developing aerial roots (genus Clusia). Most often large trees in the rainforest, swampy coasts or along…
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…
ROSEMARY
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…
LINGZHI REISHI
The "shiny" Ganoderma, GANODERMA LUCIDUM, GANODERMATACEAE, is a basidiomycete (or "hat" fungus) which is part of a plant family with many species (about 80) that are found more in hot…
LIQUORICE LICORICE
LIQUORICE, LICORICE or cultivated licorice GLYCYRRHIZA GLABRA, FABACEAE, is a perennial plant by its root which reaches 1m to 1m50, the flowers are grouped in erect clusters, of a more…