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Medicinal plants. The bark of willow trees contains salicylic acid, the active metabolite of aspirin, and has been used for millennia to relieve pain and reduce fever. [1] Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical ...
Seed is used only occasionally in tradition medicine. Modern usage is primarily as a diuretic. [20] Arctium lappa. Burdock. Used traditionally as a diuretic and to lower blood sugar [21] and, in traditional Chinese medicine as a treatment for sore throat and symptoms of the common cold.
Archaeological evidence indicates that the use of medicinal plants dates back to the Paleolithic age, approximately 60,000 years ago. Written evidence of herbal remedies dates back over 5,000 years to the Sumerians, who compiled lists of plants. Some ancient cultures wrote about plants and their medical uses in books called herbals.
Directorate of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Research. Ipomoea. Ipomoea muricata. Ipomoea purpurea. Ipomoea sagittifolia. Iris mesopotamica. Iris palaestina.
Plants used in traditional Native American medicine (1 C, 394 P) Pages in category "Medicinal plants of North America" The following 96 pages are in this category, out of 96 total.
Turmeric (/ ˈ t ɜːr m ər ɪ k, ˈ tj uː-/), (botanical name Curcuma longa (/ ˈ k ɜːr k j ʊ m ə ˈ l ɒ ŋ ɡ ə /),) is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae.It is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that requires temperatures between 20 and 30 °C (68 and 86 °F) and high annual rainfall to thrive.
Ginger. Ginger ( Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. [2] It is a herbaceous perennial which grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves) about one meter tall, bearing narrow leaf blades.
Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West - Cultural and Scientific Basis for their Use. Abedus Press, La Crescenta. ISBN 0-9763091-0-6. Gives the Chumash Indian and scientific basis for use of many plants, along with color photographs of each plant. Cecilia Garcia is a Chumash healer. Lowell J. Bean and Katherine Siva Saubel (1972).
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