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culinary, medicinal root Ginkgo: Ginkgo biloba: Ginkgoaceae: tree medicinal leaves seeds also eaten: Ground-ivy: Glechoma hederacea: Lamiaceae: perennial creeper culinary, medicinal used as a food preservative and salad green: Licorice: Glycyrrhiza glabra: Fabaceae: perennial herb: culinary, medicinal: root Cudweed: Gnaphalium uliginosum and ...
Abscess root It is used to reduce fever, inflammation, and cough. [122] Psidium guajava: Guava: It has a rich history of use in traditional medicine. It is traditionally used to treat diarrhea; however, evidence of its effectiveness is very limited. [123] [124] Ptelea trifoliata: Wafer Ash The root bark is used for the digestive system. [125]
Herb twopence, an evergreen trailing plant. A popular name for various plants of the genus Lysimachia, especially Lysimachia nummularia, of the primrose family, Primulaceae. Moonwort - Honesty, a herb of the genus Lunaria. Also, any fern of the genus Botrychium. Motherwort - A herb, Leonurus cardiaca, of the mint family, Lamiaceae. Also, mugwort.
Medicinal plants are widely used as folk medicine in non-industrialized societies, mainly because they are readily available and cheaper than modern medicines. The annual global export value of the thousands of types of plants with medicinal properties was estimated to be US$60 billion per year and growing at the rate of 6% per annum.
Shiso – shiso [17] is the now common name [18] for the Japanese culinary herb, seed, or entire annual plant of Perilla frutescens. Sorrel – or garden sorrel, often simply called sorrel, is a perennial herb that is cultivated as a garden herb or leaf vegetable. Tarragon – perennial herb in the family Asteraceae related to wormwood.
Mandrake has a long history of medicinal use, although superstition has played a large part in the uses to which it has been applied. [15] WebMD, which categorises the herb European Mandrake derived from Mandragora officinarum under the heading "Vitamins & Supplements", declares that it is UNSAFE for anyone to use European mandrake for ...
Other common names include herb gerard, bishop's weed, goutweed, gout wort, snow-in-the-mountain, English masterwort [2] and wild masterwort. [2] It is the type species of the genus Aegopodium . It is native to Europe and Asia, but has been introduced around the world as an ornamental plant, where it occasionally poses an ecological threat as ...
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 an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of leaves) about one meter tall, bearing narrow leaf blades.