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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]
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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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]
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).
Peas are an annual plant.. An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one growing season, and then dies.. Globally, 6% of all plant species and 15% of herbaceous plants (excluding trees and shrubs) are annua