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This is a partial list of herbs and herbal treatments with known or suspected adverse effects, either alone or in interaction with other herbs or drugs.Non-inclusion of an herb in this list does not imply that it is free of adverse effects.
The barbed spines of the achenes get stuck in the feathers, fur, fleeces, clothing, etc. of people or animals that brush against the plant. [7] [8] It is an effective means of seed dispersal by zoochory, as the fruits are transported by animals. This mechanism has helped the plant become a noxious weed in temperate and tropical regions. [4] [5] [9]
Bach flower remedies (BFRs) are solutions of brandy and water—the water containing extreme dilutions of flower material developed by Edward Bach, an English homeopath, in the 1910s. Bach claimed that the dew found on flower petals retains the supposed healing properties of that plant. [ 1 ]
Equisetum hyemale strobilus, at Darłówko on the Baltic Sea coast of Poland. Equisetum hyemale is native to central and northern Eurasia, including Iceland, Greenland, Kamchatka and Japan, where it forms clonal colonies in mesic (reliably moist) habitats, often in heavy clay or sandy soils in riparian zones of rivers and streams where it can withstand occasional flooding, but also in lime ...
Ericameria nauseosa is a perennial shrub growing to 2 to 8 metres (6 + 1 ⁄ 2 to 26 feet). [3] The leaves, depending on the subspecies, are 2–7.5 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 –3 inches) long [4] and narrow to spatula-shaped.
Most people try to get rid of this plant, but it will grow in heavy clay or saline soils. The tall, bushy shrub has green stems and twigs and highly reduced leaves. It will accept shearing and can be trained into a decent, short-lived privacy hedge, useful while the longer-lived, taller, but slower growing Arizona rosewood gets established.
Senecio vulgaris is a frost-resistant [6] deciduous annual plant that grows in disturbed sites, waste places, roadsides, gardens, nurseries, orchards, vineyards, landscaped areas, agricultural lands, [19] at altitudes up to 1,600 feet (500 m) [6] and is, additionally, self-pollinating [19] producing 1,700 seeds per plant with three generations ...
A phytochemical study of V. rigidula [7] by workers at the Texas A & M University Agricultural Research and Extension Center at Uvalde, TX, reported the presence of over forty alkaloids, including low amounts (up to around 15 ppm) of several phenolic amines that had previously been found by the same research group in the related species Senegalia berlandieri, [8] but which otherwise are known ...