Herbs

The Romans used the parsley plant, giving it to gladiators before their fights. Today, it is still more than just a seasoning plant. However, wild parsley must be taken care …

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 …