INTRODUCTION Sleep disorders, depression, anxiety, "nervousness", certain psychosomatic disorders, are possible indications for phytotherapy and aromatherapy.The medicinal plants authorized by the legislator do not have the pharmacological power of synthetic…
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…
Several species of valerian, European, Asiatic, American are used for their hypnotic, calming, sedative, anxiolytic or anti-spasmodic properties.VALERIANA OFFICINALIS, VALERIANACEAE, valerian, is native to Eurasia but is now present on…
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…
The PASSIFLORACEAE include a few hundred species, the majority of them (around 400) of the genus Passiflora. They are found in the wild mainly in the New World, very few…
HYPERICUM, CLUSIACEAE ou HYPERICACEAE is a botanical genus that includes several hundred herbaceous or shrub species (more than 400) widespread in all temperate regions, Asia, Europe and the Americas. hypericum,…
The inhabitants of the South Pacific, Melanesia and Polynesia, before their contact with the Europeans, knew only one intoxicating drink prepared from the roots of the inebriating pepper: PIPER METHYSTICUM…
The ZIZYPHUS botanical genus,(RHAMNACEAE) whose complex spelling of Latin origin is sometimes simplified into ZIZIPHUS (which can create confusion) exists in most continents. there are about forty species of trees…
CANNABACEAE = CANNABINACEAE are represented by only two genera: Cannabis, hemp, and Humulus, hops. Hops, HUMULUS LUPULUS is a climbing and perennial herb native to temperate Eurasia that climbs on…
GRIFFONIA SIMPLICIFOLIA, FABACEAE, which does not have a common name in French or English, is native to West Africa, from Senegal to Congo, but is mainly present in Liberia, Ivory…