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Therapeutic plants

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Therapeutic plants

Many plants have qualities or elements who make them therapeutic. Often it are plants which are used in the traditional folk therapy or in allopathy (officially therapy) are used. Their purpose is to serve as a medicine or to be a starting point to make a medicine of it. Therapeutic plants possess special elements who in a specific amount or concentration can cure. Often it are toxic (poisoning) elements. It is based on the main components and assist by secondary elements. In this way it works most effective. Only a small part of all plants in nature is investigated on therapeutic qualities. Therapeutic plants are often successful against mild diseases. Therapeutic plants seems also to support the working of officially therapies. Plants who are recognized are described in medicine books. The folk therapy still uses also all kind of not recognized plants.

(Warning; do not do any medication with therapeutic plants by your self, some are very poisoning.)

Some therapeutic plants; list with species

Botanic name English name
Capsicum Red pepper
Achillea millefolium  Milfoil
Silybum marianum
Rheum palmatum
Malus  Apple
Convallaria majalis Lily of the valley
Digitalis purpurea Fox glove
Commiphora molmol
Achilea vulgaris Milfoil
Quercus  Oak
Hedera helix Ivy
Linum usitatissimum
Rosa canina Rose
Mentha  Minth
Eucalypthus  Eucalypthus
Cannabis  Marihuana
Calluna vulgaris Heather
Viola tricolor 
Humulus lupulus
Lavandula angustifolia Old English lavender
Galanthus nivalis Snow drop
Ginko biloba
Olea europaea Oliva
Juniperus communis  
Thymus vulgaris Thyme
Taraxacum officinalis  

 

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