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Medicinal Uses: The leaves are used in the treatment of cancer and hepatoma. The terminal shoot is astringent and diuretic. The seed is emmenagogue, expectorant, and tonic. It is used in the treatment of rheumatism. Substances extracted from the seeds are used to inhibit the growth of malignant tumors Food Uses: Seed - raw or cooked. They can be dried and ground into a powder then mixed with brown rice and fermented into 'date miso' or 'sotetsu miso'. The heart or pith of the trunk is sliced an |
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The first Europeans to encounter cacao were Christopher Columbus and his crew in 1502, when they captured a canoe at Guanaja that contained a quantity of mysterious-looking “almonds.” The first real European knowledge about chocolate came in the form of a beverage which was first introduced to the Spanish at their meeting with Moctezuma in the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in 1519. Cortez and others noted the vast quantities of this beverage that the Aztec emperor consumed, and how it was carefu |
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It has been used as an admixture plant in ayahuasca brews as well as in poisons and medicines in S. America Brugmansia suaveolens is widely used amongst the Ingano and Siona Indians of the warmer Amazon lowlands. It is used as a medicine and a narcotic. Plants containing atropine and scopolamine have also been used for centuries in other parts of the world and the alkaloids themselves have been used in modern western medicines for over one hundred years. Medicinal Uses: This plant has been use |
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Early settlers made a soap substitute from its gummy roots, and they made home remedies from its bitter bark. Native American Indians used crushed branches from this tree and other buckeyes to drug fish in order to make them easier to catch. Medicinal Uses: The powdered bark is hypnotic and odontalgic. It is used in the treatment of ulcers. A poultice of the powdered seeds has been used in the treatment of cancer tumors and infections, and as a salve for sores. An infusion of the roots has been |
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Meriwether Lewis collected the first specimen of this plant "on the banks of the Kooskoosky [now Clearwater] River" in Montana probably in 1806. (Quotation from Intermountain Flora.) Frederick Pursh named the plant in 1814. Medicinal Uses: The bruised seeds of White Lupine, after soaking in water, are sometimes used as an external application to ulcers, etc., and internally are said to be anthelmintic, diuretic and emmenagogue Food Uses: A number of the species are cultivated only as |
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1571 |
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The first crocus seen in the Netherlands, where Crocus species are not native, were from corms brought back from Constantinople by the Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador to the Syblime Porte, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, in the 1560s. A few corms were forwarded to Carolus Clusius at the botanical garden in Leiden. By 1620, the approximate date of Ambrosius Bosschaert's painting new garden varieties had been developed, such as the cream-colored crocus feathered with bronze at the base of the bouquet, |
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The columbine is a contradiction. The blossom is considered both the flower of cuckoldry and a symbol of the doctrine of the holy dove. Its folk name is ‘granny’s bonnet.’ These attributes seem to have little in common The Indians used wild columbine to relieve heart troubles and fevers, as a sedative, and as a wash for poison ivy. Braves rubbed the ground seeds into their hands as a love potion and perfume. Europeans treated sore throats with the leaves and kidney stones with the roots. A mixt |
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Datura has a long history of medicinal and visionary use in India, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Its use has been reported in medieval European witchcraft as a "flying ointment". Datura is a genus that occurs widely in the Old and New World, and it has been used widely as a medicine and a mind-altering agent. For example, the plant is mentioned in Sanskrit. A concoction of ground seeds with water once was a popular hypnotic agent for thieves and criminals; it was also used in Indi |
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Any of some twenty plants in the genus Digitalis, foxglove had been used as a medicine by hosts of people, from ancient Greeks to medieval Welsh. During the Middle Ages in Western Europe, it was believed to cure a whole range of diseases for which it is actually useless. In the mid-1600s, for example, the herbalist Nicholas Culpeper recommended foxglove for treating epilepsy. The foxglove is a widely used herbal medicine with a recognized stimulatory effect upon the heart. It is also used in all |
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The Bush Lily (Clivia) was first discovered around 28 September 1813 at the mouth of the Great Fish River in the Eastern Cape by the English naturalist William J Burchell. Around 1823 a botanical collector named James Bowie sent plants that were found in the same area to England. It was however only in October 1828 that the Kew botanist, John Lindley, described the Clivia nobilis and named it after Lady Charlotte Florentia Clive, Baroness of Northumberland, because a plant bought from a Mr Tate |
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1730 |
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Warning! This plant is extremely toxic! All parts are potentially poisonous. It is thought that as few as twenty of the small seeds could be a lethal dose for a child and the unripe seeds may be sweet to the taste Datura has a long history of medicinal and visionary use in India, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Its use has been reported in medieval European witchcraft as a "flying ointment". Antispasmodic, anodyne and narcotic. Its properties are virtually those of hyoscyamine. It ac |
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It is poisonous to livestock, so avoid planting where animals graze. |
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