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Landscape with quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), Cachilaya [clarification needed], Bolivia, Province La Paz, Lake Titicaca seen in background.Three crops: maize, wheat, and rice, account for approximately 50% of the world's consumption of calories and protein, [6] and about 95% of the world's food needs are provided by just 30 species of plants. [7]
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The following species are included in the genus Balanites: [3]. Balanites aegyptiaca Delile; Balanites angolensis (Welw.) Mildbr. & Schltr. Balanites glabra Mildbr. & Schltr. ...
Gambier extract is used or has been used as a catechu for chewing with areca and betel, for tanning and dyeing, and as herbal medicine.Gambier extract was also used by native people as a medical treatment or prevention of diseases that were believed to be spread by the now obsolete medical theory of miasma.
The use of plants for medicinal purposes, and their descriptions, dates back two to three thousand years. [10] [11] The word herbal is derived from the mediaeval Latin liber herbalis ("book of herbs"): [2] it is sometimes used in contrast to the word florilegium, which is a treatise on flowers [12] with emphasis on their beauty and enjoyment rather than the herbal emphasis on their utility. [13]
Lysimachia latifolia (broadleaf starflower) is a perennial herbaceous plant of the ground layer of forests in western North America.. Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.
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Köhler's Medicinal Plants (or, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen) is a German herbal written principally by Hermann Adolph Köhler (1834–1879, physician and chemist), and edited after his death by Gustav Pabst.