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  2. Mimosa pudica - Wikipedia

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    Mimosa pudica (also called sensitive plant, sleepy plant, [citation needed] action plant, humble plant, touch-me-not, touch-and-die, or shameplant) [3] [2] is a creeping annual or perennial flowering plant of the pea/legume family Fabaceae. It is often grown for its curiosity value: the sensitive compound leaves quickly fold inward and droop ...

  3. List of beneficial weeds - Wikipedia

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    Medicinal Avoid Comments Bashful mimosa: Mimosa pudica: Ground cover for tomatoes, peppers: predatory beetles: Used as a natural ground cover in agriculture Caper spurge: Euphorbia lathyris: Moles: Used in French folk medicine as an emetic and purgative [1] Many domesticated animals can eat it, although it is poisonous to humans. [1] Primarily ...

  4. Mimosa tenuiflora - Wikipedia

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    Mimosa tenuiflora, syn. Mimosa hostilis, also known as jurema preta, calumbi (Brazil), tepezcohuite (México), carbonal, cabrera, jurema, black jurema, and binho de jurema, is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas), and the following ...

  5. Body odor - Wikipedia

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    Body odor or body odour (BO) is present in all animals and its intensity can be influenced by many factors (behavioral patterns, survival strategies). Body odor has a strong genetic basis, but can also be strongly influenced by various factors, such as sex, diet, health, and medication. [ 1 ]

  6. Medical ethnobotany of India - Wikipedia

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    Mimosa pudica (sensitive plant) is used as treatment for skin infections, helminths, urological disease, toothaches and as a contraceptive. The rhizome of Acorus calamus (calamus, or Vacā in Sanskrit) is documented as a treatment for cough, cold, snake bite, asthma, rheumatic fever, and hemorrhoids. [ 2 ]

  7. Social media is heating up over why Asians don’t have body odor

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    Nguyen explained that body odor is primarily associated with apocrine sweat glands, found in the armpit and groin areas. For those without the mutation in the ABCC11 gene, protein in those sweat ...

  8. Mimosa pigra - Wikipedia

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    Mimosa pigra was described as having an erect prickle between the pinnae and Mimosa asperata as having prickles in opposite pairs between the pinnae. [3] Further research showed that both leaf forms can occur on the same plant, and consequently both species were united under the name Mimosa asperata asperata, and later on, renamed Mimosa pigra.

  9. Insects in medicine - Wikipedia

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    The medicinal uses of insects and other arthropods worldwide have been reviewed by Meyer-Rochow, [1] who provides examples of all major insect groups, spiders, worms and molluscs and discusses their potential as suppliers of bioactive components. Using insects (and spiders) to treat various maladies and injuries has a long tradition and, having ...

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