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Mustard, one of the oldest herbs, dating back 3000 years ago, was initially grown in China, and appeared in Europe in the 13th century. The name, ‘mustard’, derives from the Latin word ‘mustum’ which means ‘must’.
Lavender (lavandula officinalis) is grown for its leaves which contain essential oils and is used not only in medicine, but also in the perfume industry and in the alimentary industry. Herbaceous plant, lavender is a small shrub of Mediterranean origin, whose flowers are used to prepare a series of natural remedies with cicatrizant, antiseptic, calming and relaxing effects.
Nature is an ongoing source of products used in sustaining and improving health through cosmetic treatments. Such a herb is mullein. It is a herbaceous plant, bi-annual and is harvested from June to September, early in the morning when the flowers are fresh. Mullein contains a considerable quantity of flavonoids, tannins, glucidic substances, and because of that it has expectorant, emollient, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antihistaminic and calming effects.
Due to the strong pleasant smell of its leaves, laurel is one of the most loved herbs in Greece. It started to be used not only as an aromatic, but also as a treatment against intoxications. Apart from the symbols attributed to it (symbol of conqueror, of glory and honor), laurel is rich in volatile oils, which give it carminative, diaphoretic, expectorant, detoxicating, and antiviral properties.
Sea buckthorn – Hyppophae rhamnoides – has been known from Antiquity, and in China, for example, traditional medicine recommends this herb in treating digestion problems. Sea buckthorn is used in food industry, sylviculture, pharmacy, and its positive effects can be seen in effectively treating illnesses, especially liver problems.
Rattle was used from ancient times because of its therapeutic powers and its large scale utility. Rattle is a herbaceous perennial plant with a straight woody stalk, with oval leaves and yellow flowers. The herb is used to prepare tea and the rattle oil is made from its flowers.
Buckthorn (Rhamnus Frangula) is a bush that can be found in everglades and groves. Because it contains glycosides and anthranoids with purgative effect, buckthorn has choleretic actions over the bile and relaxes the intestinal mussels. The fruits contain vitamins, mineral substances and fat acids ant they have an antioxidant, protective and regenerative action.
Wormwood is a rustic herb with light-yellow perfumed flowers. Only the leaves and the stalks are used for medicinal purposes. The herb contains volatile oil (thujone, tanacetone, azulene and cadinene) absinthine, bitterish glucose, absinthol, tannin, chlorophyll, malic acid, vitamin B6 and C.
One of the oldest medicinal herbs, used by Greeks, Romans and Egyptians in medicine and cuisine, mint has sedative, cicatrizing and disinfectant properties and it is useful in cases of cold, constipation, indigestion, rheumatism, headaches, neuralgia, hypotension, sinusitis, toothaches, and abdominal pains.
The shrub has a ramified crown, angular green long twigs, obtuse flowers and it is grown as a decorative plant (Jasminum fretticans), or for its industrial and medicinal uses. The flowers can be small or big, white with a nice perfume that increases in strength in the evening. Jasmine grows quickly. It can grow in the shade, but it grows better in sunny and breezy areas.
Originating from Central and South America, the hot pepper is nowadays cultivated worldwide for its food and therapeutic qualities. It is a 30-60 cm high annual herbal plant. It has got different variants, both with a sweet taste and especially with a hot taste.
Your favorite dress is superb, but a little bit to small? It's time to take action fast and firmly against the unwanted kilograms! On this article, you can find a diet plan for just 7 days, which will make you look much better in the end. If you follow it strictly, you can lose 4 - 5 kilograms (8 - 11 pounds) and few centimeters from your hips - those centimeters that make the difference when you putt on your dress. And because this diet requires only 7 days, you should not cheat at al
Mustard, one of the oldest herbs, dating back 3000 years ago, was initially grown in China, and appeared in Europe in the 13th century. The name, ‘mustard’, derives from the Latin word ‘mustum’ which means ‘must’.
It is a vegetable that has its origins in the wild celery from the Mediterranean basin. The celery has a thick and pulpy rhizome, reduced aerial stem and big, green pinnate leaves. It is a cultivated plant, used as a nutriment, but also as a medicinal plant. For the therapeutic recommendations are used the roots, as well as the leaves and seeds. Also it is used as an aphrodisiac, febrifuge, hypotensive, in urinal retention, kidney disease.
Named scientifically as “Berberis Vulgaris”, the herb known as “barberry” is a thorny shrub with yellow flowers, small red fruits. It grows along with other shrubs at the edge of fields or forests. This herb is a little pretentious regarding the type of soil it grows on; the type of barberry with caducous leaves are heliophile, and those with persistent leaves can be cultivated in the shade.
The pregnancy and nursing period is characterized by a series of fundamental structural and functional changes of the maternal body: uterus enlargement, placenta formation, mammary glands increase, endocrine gland modification, blood volume increase, metabolism intensification etc.
Nature is an ongoing source of products used in sustaining and improving health through cosmetic treatments. Such a herb is mullein. It is a herbaceous plant, bi-annual and is harvested from June to September, early in the morning when the flowers are fresh. Mullein contains a considerable quantity of flavonoids, tannins, glucidic substances, and because of that it has expectorant, emollient, anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antihistaminic and calming effects.
Wormwood is a rustic herb with light-yellow perfumed flowers. Only the leaves and the stalks are used for medicinal purposes. The herb contains volatile oil (thujone, tanacetone, azulene and cadinene) absinthine, bitterish glucose, absinthol, tannin, chlorophyll, malic acid, vitamin B6 and C.
As borsch, vinegar take over the qualities of base from witch it was obtain, in this case from apples, fruits very rich in potassium, essential mineral for normal function of important system from our body (nervous, cardiovascular). Apple vinegar contains all the important minerals, like potassium, magnesium,
Lavender (lavandula officinalis) is grown for its leaves which contain essential oils and is used not only in medicine, but also in the perfume industry and in the alimentary industry. Herbaceous plant, lavender is a small shrub of Mediterranean origin, whose flowers are used to prepare a series of natural remedies with cicatrizant, antiseptic, calming and relaxing effects.
Your favorite dress is superb, but a little bit to small? It's time to take action fast and firmly against the unwanted kilograms! On this article, you can find a diet plan for just 7 days, which will make you look much better in the end. If you follow it strictly, you can lose 4 - 5 kilograms (8 - 11 pounds) and few centimeters from your hips - those centimeters that make the difference when you putt on your dress. And because this diet requires only 7 days, you should not cheat at al
When everything is going very well, even the hair is bright. Respect a healthy way of life, because the specialist thinks that the vitamins and the way of life are the key for beautiful, natural and healthy hair.
Mustard, one of the oldest herbs, dating back 3000 years ago, was initially grown in China, and appeared in Europe in the 13th century. The name, ‘mustard’, derives from the Latin word ‘mustum’ which means ‘must’.
Wormwood is a rustic herb with light-yellow perfumed flowers. Only the leaves and the stalks are used for medicinal purposes. The herb contains volatile oil (thujone, tanacetone, azulene and cadinene) absinthine, bitterish glucose, absinthol, tannin, chlorophyll, malic acid, vitamin B6 and C.
Originating from Central and South America, the hot pepper is nowadays cultivated worldwide for its food and therapeutic qualities. It is a 30-60 cm high annual herbal plant. It has got different variants, both with a sweet taste and especially with a hot taste.
Spread throughout the world and known from Antiquity for its therapeutic usages, chicory (Chihorium intybus) was used by the old Egyptians to treat the liver and gallbladder problems.
The chamomile plant, also known as wild chamomile, is one of the oldest used medicinal plants. It grows everywhere, at the sides of the roads, on fields, near the houses. In some regions, fields of chamomile lie. The flowers - Flores Chamomile- contain volatile oil, blue-colored, with antispasmodic, disinfectant and antiinflammatory characteristics.
Arnica Montana is a herb which has been used from the oldest of times to cure wounds. Starting in the 16th century this herb has been used In North America, Germany and Russia due to its anti-inflammatory and calming effects. It should not be confused with Arnica Chamissonis, which is not a medicinal herb, but a decorative one.
Garlic is a plant native to Africa and central Asia. It was discovered and used by the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Jews, Greeks and Romans. Garlic earned a renowned place in the modern natural medicine. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance when the population was facing great plagues, garlic was used very often as a protective medicine.
It is a herbal, aromatic plant, which is cultivated. It grows as high as 40-70 cm in the light, in rich soils and it needs moderate humidity. Parts used: the bulb, the leaves, the seeds and the roots.
