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The Libellus de Medicinalibus Indorum Herbis (Latin for "Little Book of the Medicinal Herbs of the Indians") is an Aztec herbal manuscript, describing the medicinal properties of 250 plants used by the Aztecs.
The most well-known work attributed to Shennong is The Divine Farmer's Herb-Root Classic (simplified Chinese: 神农本草经; traditional Chinese: 神農本草經; pinyin: Shénnóng Běncǎo Jīng; Wade–Giles: Shen 2-nung 2 Pen 3-ts'ao 3 Ching 1), first compiled some time during the end of the Western Han Dynasty — several thousand years ...
In addition, the market for herbs is not as large as the more commercial crops, providing the justification for the small-scale herb farm. Herbs may be for culinary, medicinal or aromatic use, and sold fresh-cut or dried. [2] [3] Herbs may also be grown for their essential oils or as raw material for making herbal products. [4] Many businesses ...
Shennong Bencaojing (also Classic of the Materia Medica or Shen-nong's Herbal Classics [1] and Shen-nung Pen-tsao Ching; Chinese: 神農本草經) is a Chinese book on agriculture and medicinal plants, traditionally attributed to Shennong. Researchers believe the text is a compilation of oral traditions, written between the first and second ...
[1] In Europe, apothecaries stocked herbal ingredients as traditional medicines. In the Latin names for plants created by Linnaeus, the word officinalis indicates that a plant was used in this way. For example, the marsh mallow has the classification Althaea officinalis, as it was traditionally used as an emollient to soothe ulcers. [2]
Potato, aromatic herbs: Sow 2 or 3 radish seeds in with cucumbers to repel cucumber beetles.
In 2004 organic certified land area covered 430 km 2 of farmed area and by 2005 organic farm area had increased to 703.89 km 2, or about 1.5 percent of total farm area. The average Lithuanian organic farm size, 0.39 km 2, is about four times the size of the average conventional farm. The largest organic farm is 7 km 2.
The leaves are flat, dark green, 1–4 centimetres (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long, 2–3 mm (3 ⁄ 32 – 1 ⁄ 8 in) broad, and arranged spirally on the stem, but with the leaf bases twisted to align the leaves in two flat rows on either side of the stem, except on erect leading shoots where the spiral arrangement is more obvious. The ...