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 Flowering dogwood: Also known as American boxwood, false box, rose willow, and silky cornel, flowering dogwood can be used topically to alleviate infections on the skin. Boil 5 tsp of plant material in 200 ml (about 1 cup) of water. Let the plant steep for a few minutes before straining the liquid. Soak a clean cloth or piece of gauze in the liquid and apply it to the affected area.
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Butternut: This plant can heal the skin from infections such as impetigo. Boil 2 tbsp of butternut root in 2 cups of water for 10 minutes. Strain the liquid and drink the tea. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 Daily Mail "Many if not all of the villagers exposed to GMmaize pollen in 2003 have remained ill____31 signed a petition circulated by a member of the Parish Social Action Center, claiming they fell ill during the flowering period.... Around 20 children (aged 5-10 years) got sick during the flowering period."233 Mae-Wan Ho, biophysicist and geneticist
The chances of GM After GM soy was introduced crops being allergenic into the UK, soy allergies sky-are minimal. rocketed 50%. Current GM corn would not pass tests recommended by FAO/WHO for potential allergenicity. |
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| Flowering dogwood: Also known as American boxwood, false box, rose willow, and silky cornel, flowering dogwood can be used topically to alleviate skin infections. A preparation from the bark of the root can be used on the skin, or a tincture of the root bark can be ingested to stimulate the appetite and relieve constipation.
Tea tree oil: Apply this antibacterial and antifungal oil directly to the affected area. A 15% tree tree oil solution provides the best results, but if the skin becomes irritated reduce the strength of the oil by diluting with a vegetable oil. |
Pam Montgomery
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 As plants moved to land their animal counterparts followed them so that mammals did not appear on land until angiosperms (flowering plants) were there to feed them.
As flowering plants became dominant, they perfected their ability to reproduce or pollinate. Random pollination occurs by wind, but more efficient pollination occurs through insects, bees, birds, and animals. Plants, particularly the flowers of plants, have evolved as the epitome of sexual display, because their sexual parts are inside the flower, and the plant's primary focus is to attract pollinators to their sexual organs. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 The oil of rosemary is formed either from distilled flowering tops or from the stems and leaves. About 100 pounds of flowering tops yields about eight ounces of oil.
Rosemary (Rosmariunus officinalis)
ROSEMARY'S NO BABY
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Rosemary is native to the Mediterranean area. Many cultures view rosemary as a symbol of love and fidelity. Brides have often worn a wreath of rosemary during their wedding ceremony. Guests attending the service would also receive a branch of rosemary as a symbol of love and loyalty. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Flower and Fruit: The flowering shoots grow on the stem very close to the ground. The panicle branches can grow up to 8 cm. The flowers are alternate and covered by sheath-like bracts before opening. The calyx is slightly wider above, finely striped, obtusely 3-tipped and does not droop. The corolla is greenish white. The lobes are rounded, somewhat curly, white with a yellowish border with blue veins and lines in the center. The only fertile stamen is set into the edge of the petals. The sterile stamens are arranged beside the styles on the receptacle. The pollen is globular and prickly. |
Anne Harrington
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 What happened to this first flowering of psychosomatic medicine in Germany in 1933, with the rise to power of National Socialism? For many years, it was generally assumed that the entire enterprise had ground to an abrupt halt as the Jewish psychoanalysts fled and everything associated with Freud was brutally suppressed by the new regime. |
Mark Lynas
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 Grains are particularly vulnerable to heat during flowering and setting seed, and temperatures over 30°C cause an escalating pattern of damage. According to John Sheehy of the International Rice Research Institute in Manila: 'In rice, wheat and maize, grain yields are likely to decline by 10 per cent for every 1 degree C increase over 30 degrees.' Over 40°C, yields are reduced to zero. With many areas in the tropics already close to or at this 30°C threshold, tropical yields in the three-degree world will be on a long downhill slide. |
| The period is named the 'Younger Dryas', after an arctic-alpine flowering herb, Dryas octopetala, whose pollen is ubiquitous in peaty sediment layers dating from the time. In Norway temperatures were 7-9°C lower than today, and even southern Europe suffered a reversal to near-glacial conditions. On the other side of the Atlantic, cooling also occurred, and there is evidence of rapid climate change from as far afield as South America and New Zealand. |
Bill Sardi
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 There are some 250,000 species of flowering plants that could serve to provide anti-cancer molecules. There are an abundance of laboratory dish studies of herbal ingredients that have been shown to inhibit the growth of cancer. Which ones should be investigated? Can we assume from lab dish studies that humans should begin to treat cancer with a particular herb?
A study of the herb Cymbopogon cifratus, or lemon balm, will serve as an example. It is known that mortality from cancer of the digestive tract is low in Thailand compared to Japan. |
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| Bellis perennis
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Bennet's Root
Geum urbanum description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts of the plant are the dried flowering herb, the dried or fresh underground parts, and the roots.
Flower and Fruit: The inflorescence is a loose panicled, umbelled cyme with a few terminal and erect flowers. The pedicles are short-haired. The sepals are 3 to 8 cm long with long tips, pubescent on the outside and glabrous on the inside, except for a tomentose border. The epicalyx bracts are half as long as the sepals, pubescent on both sides and narrowly lanceolate. |
| The leaves later become glabrous and appear after flowering. Liverwort is a protected species in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
Habitat: The plant is indigenous to almost all of Europe except the Atlantic regions, Denmark and northwest Germany. It is also indigenous to Korea, Japan, and temperate North America.
Production: American Liverwort consists of the fresh or dried above-ground parts of Hepatica nobilis. The herb is harvested when in bloom and air-dried in the shade. |
| Armoracia rusticana
See Horseradish
Arnica
Arnica montana description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts of Arnica are the ethereal oil of the flowers, the dried flowers, the leaves collected before flowering and dried, the roots, and the dried rhizome and roots.
Flower and Fruit: The terminal composite flower is found in the leaf axils of the upper pair of leaves. They have a diameter of 6 to 8 cm, are usually egg yolk-yellow to orange-yellow, but occasionally light yellow. The receptacle and epicalyx are hairy. The 10 to 20 female ray flowers are linguiform. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Oregano Oil Has Medicinal Benefits
The medicinal parts of this wondrous plant are contained in the oil extracted from the leaves, or from the herb itself picked during the flowering season and eaten fresh or dried. The essential oil contains thymol (see Thyme on page 291) and car-vacrol, both compounds that have antifungal, antibacterial, and antiparasitic properties. In one study, 77 percent of patients treated for enteric parasites were parasite free after taking oil of oregano in tablet form for six weeks. |
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| Habitat: Europe, northern Africa and the Caucacus *
Production: Arrach is the complete flowering plant of
Chenopodium vulvaria.
Other Names: Stinking Arrach, Stinking Goosefoot, Dog's Arrach, Goat's Arrach, Goosefoot, Stinking Motherwort, Netchweed, Oraches actions and pharmacology
COMPOUNDS
Mono-, di- and trimethylamine: only in the fresh plant due to their volatility
Betaine
Tannins
EFFECTS
No. substantiated information is available. indications and usage
Unproven Uses: Arrach is used internally and externally to relieve 'cramps and as an emmenagogue. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| Around 20 children (aged 5-10 years) got sick during the flowering period."233 Mae-Wan Ho, biophysicist and geneticist
The chances of GM After GM soy was introduced crops being allergenic into the UK, soy allergies sky-are minimal. rocketed 50%. Current GM corn would not pass tests recommended by FAO/WHO for potential allergenicity. The EPAs Scientific Advisory Panel determined that GM protein in StarLink corn has a "medium likelihood" of being an allergen. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Digitalis Purpurea
Foxglove
DESCRIPTION
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the dried leaves (a powder of these), the ripe dried seeds, the fresh leaves of the 1-year-old plant or the leaves of the 2-year-old plant collected at the beginning of flowering. In the past, the drug of Digitalis purpurae was the raw material employed in isolating the cardiac glycosides. Today, Digitalis Iantana is used.
Flower and Fruit: The flowers are carmine red with white-edged spots on the inside. The flowers appear in long hanging racemes. They have 5 free, short-tipped sepals. |
| Flower and Fruit: The flowering stems are axillary, numerous, pubescent and erect. They are usually reddish and have
3, up to 1 cm long, entire-margined, ovate, unpetiolate, calyx-like bracts directly under the upright flower. The 6 to 8 bracts are sky blue, paler on the outside, occasionally pink or white, narrow-ovate, entire-margined and dropping. The are no nectaries. The stamens are almost white with red connective. The stigma is head-like. The fruit is oblong with a short beak fitted into the semi-globular receptacle. |
| Not To Be Confused With: The blue flowering form of Anagallis arvensis is often confused with Anagallis foemina and occasionally with Stellaria media.
Other Names: Adder's Eyes, Poor Man's Weatherglass, Red Chickweed, Red Pimpernel, Shepherd's Barometer
ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY
COMPOUNDS
Triterpene saponins: including anagalline, chief sapogenine 13,28-epoxy-16- oxooleanan
Cucurbitacins: including cucurbitacins E, B, D, I and L F lavonoids
Caffeic acid derivatives
EFFECTS
The aqueous extract of the dried leaves is fungitoxic. |
| Anagallis Arvensis
Scarlet Pimpernel
DESCRIPTION
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal part is the dried, flowering herb without the roots.
Flower and Fruit: The plant has 6 to 10 brick red flowers in the leaf axils, which are up to 2.5 times as long as the bracts. The symmetrically radiating flower has a double perianth. It has 5 sepals which are 4 to 5 mm long, entire-margined, narrow-lanceolate and acute. The wheel-shaped corolla is usually vermilion, but occasionally blue-flesh colored, lilac or white. |
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| Ballota nigra
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Balmony
Chelone glabra description
Medicinal Parts: The medicinal part is the fresh herb picked during the flowering season
Flower and Fruit: The inflorescence is a short terminal spike of bilabiate white, purple, cream, or pink flowers. The lower lip is awned in the tube and the cordate anthers are downy. The seeds are round and bitter.
Leaves, Stem, and Root: The plant is small and erect, and may reach up to 60 cm in height. It is a perennial herb with angular, smooth stems and a horizontally spreading root system. |
Michael Pollan
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 Perhaps the most notorious flowering of pseudoscientific eating (and protonutritionism) came in the early years of the twentieth century, when John Harvey Kellogg and Horace Fletcher persuaded thousands of Americans to trade all pleasure in eating for health-promoting dietary regimens of truly breathtaking rigor and perversity. The two diet gurus were united in their contempt for animal protein, the consumption of which Dr. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| He said the symptoms "were similar to those experienced" when "the first case of alleged harmful effects of the flowering Bt corn was documented."47 Before they got sick, most residents had not known that the planted corn was Bt.
When Traavik's team conducted blood tests in 2003, they also tested how much S/-toxin (CrylAB) was being produced by the corn. The study, which is not yet published, showed that the levels varied considerably in the kernels, even from the same plant. The levels ranged from 0.014 ug to 0. |
| But like me, they felt the symptoms when the Bt corn plants were flowering. "40
Pablo Senon
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^ne day the horse ate some of the corn plants and its appetite disappeared. . . . The belly swelled, its mouth started frothing and it slowly died. "41
—Nestor Catoran
1. In 2003, approximately 100 people living next to a Bt cornfield in the Philippines developed skin, respiratory, intestinal reactions, and other symptoms while the corn was shedding pollen.
2. Blood tests of 39 people showed an antibody response to Bt-toxin, which supports—but does not prove—a link,
3. |
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| Arnica montana
See Arnica
Arrach
Chenopodium vulvaria description
Medicinal Parts: The whole fresh, flowering plant has medicinal properties.
Flower and Fruit: The flowers are small, yellow-green and inconspicuous. They grow in clusters in leafless, compact spikes at the tip of the stem. The fruit is enclosed by the involucre. The seeds are black and glossy.
Leaves, Stem and Root: The plant is 15 to 40 cm high. The stems are branched from low down. The leaves are broad, rhomboid, entire-margined and petiolate. The whole plant is floury-dusty. |
Sophie D. Coe and Michael D. Coe
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 The manner of the tree's flowering, however, was not at all familiar. Unlike European fruit trees, it did not flower from spurs along the branches, or from the branch tips. The cacao tree, in a fashion favoured by other tropical fruit ^ trees, flowers from small cushions
_ . , ,,. on its trunk and on the larger
Cacao tree, from the 16th-century herbal of Francisco Hernandez, royal branches, a pattern technically physician to Philip 11 of Spain. known as "cauliflory. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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| About 100 pounds of flowering tops yields about eight ounces of oil.
Rosemary (Rosmariunus officinalis)
ROSEMARY'S NO BABY
A Serving of Food Lore...
Rosemary is native to the Mediterranean area. Many cultures view rosemary as a symbol of love and fidelity. Brides have often worn a wreath of rosemary during their wedding ceremony. Guests attending the service would also receive a branch of rosemary as a symbol of love and loyalty. Rosemary is also used in funerals and other religious ceremonies as incense.
Where Is Rosemary Grown? |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 The young stalks (harvested before flowering) may be peeled and eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable. Burdock root can be added to soup, salad, stir-fries, and sukiyaki. The root also can be roasted and used as a coffee substitute.
Other Uses
Burdock has been used as a protective agent to dispel negativity when burned as an incense. |
| Dark purple berries appear after the flowering; each berry is composed of five to twelve segments.
POLYGALA
Botanical Name
Polygala senega, P. sibirica, P. tenuifolia Family
Polygalaceae (Milkwort Family) Etymology
The genus name derives from the Greek polys, "much," and gala, "milk," alluding to the milky secretions of the plant as well as its effects, as some species can be used as galactagogues.
Also Known As
Cantonese: yan ji (P. tenuifolia), yuen ji (P. tenuifolia)
English: Chinese senega root (P. tenuifolia), milkwort, mountain flax (P. senega), rattlesnake root {P. |
| The cordate leaves can grow to 8 inches in diameter. flowering is rare. When flowers do appear, the male flowers are singular and axillary, while the female flowers form numerous spikes.
There are more than twenty varieties of kava kava, with white and black grades having the greatest social and commercial significance. Growers prefer the black grades, as they provide a quicker return on their investment, being ready to harvest in about two and a half years. Users prefer white grades, which take about four years to mature but have stronger effects. |
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