Herbs

The leaves and flower clusters of the lily of the valley plant are used in the pharmaceutical industry to produce heart-stimulating medicines. However, they may also be used naturally, so …

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, …

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 …

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. …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …