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Jamu (Javanese: ꦗꦩꦸ) is a traditional medicine from Indonesia.It is predominantly a herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as roots, bark, flowers, seeds, leaves and fruits. [1]
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Plants, including many now used as culinary herbs and spices, have been used as medicines, not necessarily effectively, from prehistoric times.Spices have been used partly to counter food spoilage bacteria, especially in hot climates, [6] [7] and especially in meat dishes that spoil more readily. [8]
Moringa flowers Moringa pollen Tree and seed pods of Moringa oleifera Moringa seeds Foliage of Moringa oleifera. M. oleifera is a fast-growing, deciduous tree [7] that can reach a height of 10–12 m (33–39 ft) and trunk diameter of 46 cm (18 in). [8]
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]
Fruits. It is a large, deciduous, extensively-spreading, climbing vine with several elongated twining branches. Leaves are simple, alternate, and exstipulate with long petioles up to 15 cm (6 in) long which are roundish and pulvinate, both at the base and apex with the basal one longer and twisted partially and half way around.
Lycium barbarum illustration from Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, by Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé, 1885, Gera, Germany.. Lycium barbarum is a deciduous woody shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 metres (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in).
Kaempferia is a genus of plants in the ginger family. It is native to China, India, and Southeast Asia. [1] [2] [3]The genus is named after the naturalist and traveller Engelbert Kaempfer, who lived in Japan and east Asia for the years 1689-1693 and was one of the first Europeans to write detailed descriptions of plants there.