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Feverfew contains parthenolide, which is under basic research to assess its possible properties. [8] Other phytochemicals include camphor , parthenolide , luteolin , and apigenin . [ 9 ] Camphor has aromatic properties, while luteolin and apigenin are flavonoids .
The plant has been used for centuries in the South Pacific to make a ceremonial drink with sedative and anesthetic properties, with potential for causing liver injury. [117] Piscidia erythrina / Piscidia piscipula: Jamaica dogwood: The plant is used in traditional medicine for the treatment of insomnia and anxiety, despite serious safety ...
The chrysanthemum is said to have been favored by Tao Qian, an influential Chinese poet, and is symbolic of nobility. It is also one of the four symbolic seasonal flowers. A chrysanthemum festival is held each year in Tongxiang, near Hangzhou, China. [27] Chrysanthemums are the topic in hundreds of poems of China. [28]
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive.
Chrysanthemum zawadzkii is a species of short perennial herb in the family Asteraceae native to eastern Europe and to Asia. The species was described from the Pieniny mountains in 1829 by Franz Herbich and named after Aleksander Zawadzki .
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.
Tanacetum cinerariifolium is a species of flowering plant in the aster family, Asteraceae, [1] and formerly part of the genus Pyrethrum, but now placed in the genus Chrysanthemum, or the genus Tanacetum by some biologists. It is called the Dalmatian chrysanthemum or Dalmatian pyrethrum, denoting its origin in that region of Europe (Dalmatia ...
Ismelia carinata, the tricolour chrysanthemum, [2] tricolor daisy, [3] or annual chrysanthemum, is an ornamental plant native to north Africa that is cultivated as a garden plant and grows as a weed in California. [4] It is the sole species in the genus Ismelia.