Remedies

People have been using the thorns of this thistle for centuries, which is the origin of its name, wild teasel. However, though machines do wool carding at present, this plant …

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 …