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  2. Medicinal plants - Wikipedia

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    Medicinal plants are used with the intention of maintaining health, to be administered for a specific condition, or both, whether in modern medicine or in traditional medicine. [ 3][ 46] The Food and Agriculture Organization estimated in 2002 that over 50,000 medicinal plants are used across the world. [ 47]

  3. List of plants used in herbalism - Wikipedia

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    Horse chestnut. Its seeds, leaves, bark, and flowers have been used medicinally for many centuries for treating joint pain, bladder and gastrointestinal problems, fever, leg cramps, and other conditions. It may be useful for treating chronic venous insufficiency. The raw plant materials are toxic unless processed.

  4. Herbal medicine - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. An antique selection of herbal medicines. Herbal medicine (also called herbalism, phytomedicine or phytotherapy) is the study of pharmacognosy and the use of medicinal plants, which are a basis of traditional medicine. [ 1]

  5. The Kenyan enthralled by the healing power of plants - AOL

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    For years, Mr Odhiambo has studied medicinal plants - the scientific research as well as talking to the people who use them - soaking up so much folklore and indigenous knowledge that he says he ...

  6. Category:Medicinal plants of North America - Wikipedia

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    Plants used in traditional Native American medicine‎ (1 C, 395 P) Pages in category "Medicinal plants of North America" The following 97 pages are in this category, out of 97 total.

  7. Turmeric - Wikipedia

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    Turmeric (/ ˈ t ɜːr m ər ɪ k, ˈ tj uː-/), [2] [3] (botanical name Curcuma longa (/ ˈ k ɜːr k j ʊ m ə ˈ l ɒ ŋ ɡ ə /), [4] [5]) is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae.It is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that requires temperatures between 20 and 30 °C (68 and 86 °F) and high annual rainfall to ...

  8. List of psychoactive plants - Wikipedia

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    Many of these plants are used intentionally as psychoactive drugs, for medicinal, religious, and/or recreational purposes. Some have been used ritually as entheogens for millennia. [1] [2] The plants are listed according to the specific psychoactive chemical substances they contain; many contain multiple known psychoactive compounds.

  9. List of medicinal plants of the American West - Wikipedia

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    Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West - Cultural and Scientific Basis for their Use. Abedus Press, La Crescenta. ISBN 0-9763091-0-6. Gives the Chumash Indian and scientific basis for use of many plants, along with color photographs of each plant. Cecilia Garcia is a Chumash healer. Lowell J. Bean and Katherine Siva Saubel (1972).

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