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  2. Medicinal plants - Wikipedia

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    Medicinal plants, also called medicinal herbs, have been discovered and used in traditional medicine practices since prehistoric times. Plants synthesize hundreds of chemical compounds for various functions, including defense and protection against insects , fungi , diseases , and herbivorous mammals .

  3. List of plants used in herbalism - Wikipedia

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    The plant is used by both primates and indigenous peoples in Africa to treat intestinal ailments such as dysentery. [172] [173] Veronica officinalis: Veronica The plant is used for sinus and ear infections. [174] Viburnum tinus: Laurustinus V. tinus has medicinal properties.

  4. Herbal medicine - Wikipedia

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    Archaeological evidence indicates that the use of medicinal plants dates back to the Paleolithic age, approximately 60,000 years ago. Written evidence of herbal remedies dates back over 5,000 years to the Sumerians, who compiled lists of plants. Some ancient cultures wrote about plants and their medical uses in books called herbals.

  5. Plants used as herbs or spices - Wikipedia

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    perennial herb medicinal also used as agricultural fungicide: Culantro: Eryngium foetidum: Apiaceae: perennial or biennial herb culinary, medicinal leaves [4] Coca: Erythroxylum coca and E. novogranatense: Erythroxylaceae: shrub [5] culinary (rare [6]), medicinal, ritual leaves, occasionally seeds source of the recreational drug cocaine: Eucalyptus

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

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    Many plants that grow in the American West have use in traditional and herbal medicine.. Eriogonum fasciculatum, used in treatment of headaches and diarrhea. Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) contains a large number of pharmacologically active compounds, and has been used for centuries as an effective laxative and diuretic, and as a treatment for bile or liver problems.

  7. Human uses of plants - Wikipedia

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    Plants used in herbalism include ginkgo, echinacea, feverfew, and Saint John's wort. The pharmacopoeia of Dioscorides, De Materia Medica, describing some 600 medicinal plants, was written between 50 and 70 AD and remained in use in Europe and the Middle East until around 1600 AD; it was the precursor of all modern pharmacopoeias. [14] [15] [16]

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