The motherwort plant has been grown in monasteries’ gardens since the 15th century and was highly appreciated all over Europe. It was regarded even as a universal healing plant. Later, …
Donald Rice
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The longest stems of the scotch broom plant have been used from ancient times to make brooms. However, only from the 19th century onwards has it been used in phytotherapy …
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The yellow adonis plant is a prototype of those medicinal herbs whose toxic dose is quite close to the therapeutic one. This means that the plant must be cautiously administered. …
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The camphor tree is a thousand-year-old tree that begins to produce camphor when it reaches the age of 30. In China, camphor trees are up to two thousand years old. …
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The beautiful flowers of the Central American cactus plant have short lives. They grow, produce their aroma, and die on the same night. However, their medicinal properties remain interesting, making …
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Cardiovascular Health
Herbs for the Heart: Your Guide to Natural Cardiovascular Support!
by Donald RiceMedicinal herbs for the heart exert notable actions on this all-important organ. Those herbs which augment the strength of the heart contractions (called cardiotonic herbs), the foxglove plant being the …
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The root of the yellow goatsbeard plant was already used in ancient Greece. The plant appears in some fresco paintings found in Pompeii, indicating that it was also part of …
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The great Greek physicians, pharmacologists, botanists, and authors Pedanius Dioscorides and Galen discussed the lesser periwinkle plant, to which pharmacological research has been dedicated with great interest over the past …
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When the beautiful sunflower plant came to Europe from Central America in the early 16th century, it was used as an ornamental plant in gardens and parks due to the …
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Indian traditional medicine has used the root of the rauwolfia plant since ancient times to calm nervousness and as an antidote against snake and spider bites. Modern pharmaceutical research has …
