Herbs

The great Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author Pedanius Dioscorides, who lived in the 1st century A.D., knew the medicinal properties of the juniper plant fruit. However, juniper fruits have …

Eryngium campestre is a plant of the Umbelliferae family that looks like a thistle. It is sometimes called the “Watling Street” thistle because when the wind blows in the fall, …

Wild celery is an essential ingredient in all broths and depurative recipes, along with onion, nettle, cabbage, and lemon. The oil obtained from celery seeds and roots is said to …

When talking about the wild strawberry plant, we mean those blood-red tears that grow on bush slopes, giving an exquisite aroma, never those huge, “potato-sized” fruits with little flavor and …

When strolling through the fantastic valleys, there may still be a “non-owned” cherry tree that gives the walker and the birds their small but tasteful fruit without chemical insecticides or …

Dioscorides and Theophrastus already knew about the sarsaparilla plant, and Laguna and Mattioli also mentioned it. However, it only became popular when Spaniards applied its name to some American species …

The first to describe the many medicinal properties of the goldenrod plant was Arnau DE Vilanova (Valencia, Spain, 1240- Genova, Italy, 1311), a great Middle Age physician among whose patients …

Indian corn was an essential food for most inhabitants of America before Columbus arrived there. Aztecs, Mayans, Incas, and Native Americans cultivated it from the Southern United States to Peru …

These people drink a dark beverage made with the cacao plant, which they say comes from Paradise. A Spanish soldier said in astonishment to his captain Hernan Cortes I want …

Dioscorides, the great Greek botanist and physician of the 1st century A.D., recommended giant reed to increase urine production. This plant was probably used in ancient times with these aims …