Sweet Annie Botanical Name: Artemisia annua Other Names: Absinthe Sauvage, Ajenjo Silvestre, Annual Mugwort, Sweet Wormwood, Sweet Annie, Sweet Sagewort, Annual Wormwood, Qing Hao, qing hao su (Chinese), qinghaosu (Chinese), quinghao (Chinese), sodium artesunate, thanh hao (Vietnamese), trans-pinocarveol, yin-chen. Description: Artemisia annua is a common type of wormwood that is native to temperate Asia, but [...]
Strychnos nux-vomica is an evergreen tree native to southeast Asia, especially India and Myanmar, and cultivated elsewhere. Its dried seeds or beans, and sometimes its bark (called nux vomica) are used in herbal remedies. The seeds contain organic substances, strychnine and brucine, that are used in herbal remedies. It is a major source of the [...]
Name : Stavasacre Botanical : Delphinium staphisagria Other Names :Lousewort. Family : Ranunculaceae Parts Used : Seeds. Habitat : Asia Minor and Europe. Description : Stavesacre is a species of Larkspur, a stout, erect herb attaining 4 feet in height, indigenous to Asia Minor and southern Europe. It is cultivated in France and Italy, our [...]
Silybum marianum plant is native to regions of the Mediterranean, it can also be found growing throughout the world from Europe to Asia, and from Africa to North America. This stout thistle usually grows in dry, sunny areas. The stem branches at the top, and it reaches a height of 4 to 10 feet. The [...]
Siberian ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus), also known as eleuthero, has been used for centuries in Eastern countries, including China and Russia. Despite its name, it is only a distant relative of American (Panax quinquefolius) and Asian ginseng (Panax ginseng), and it has different active chemical components. The active ingredients in Siberian ginseng, called eleutherosides, are thought [...]
Latin Name: Serenoa repens English: Saw Palmetto Other Names : Sabal serrulatum, Sabal serulata, Sabalis serulata, Sabalis serulatae, Serenoa serrulata, Serenoa serrulatae, Sabal Fructus, Fructus Serenoae, saw palmetto, American dwarf palm tree, cabbage palm, Bartram small,Nutall ex,Palmaceae. Saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) comes from a palm-like plant that grows in the southeast United States. It grows [...]
Saraca Indica . is a rain-forest tree. Its original distribution was in the central areas of the Deccan plateau, as well as the middle section of the Western Ghats in the western coastal zone of the Indian Subcontinent. The Ashoka is prized for its beautiful foliage and fragrant flowers. It is a very handsome, small, [...]
