X-Nico

unusual facts about medicinal plant



Monarda fistulosa

Wild bergamot was considered a medicinal plant by many Native Americans including the Menominee, the Ojibwe, and the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk).


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A. giganteum

Allium giganteum, the giant onion, a perennial edible medicinal plant species

Asclepius

The botanical genus Asclepias (commonly known as milkweed) is named after him and includes the medicinal plant A. tuberosa or "Pleurisy root".

Bakuchiol

One study in rats suggested that bakuchiol and ethanol extracts of the Chinese medicinal plant Psoralea corylifolia could protect against bone loss.

Dimorphocalyx glabellus

Whole plant is used as an important medicinal plant in Ayurveda.

Honorificabilitudinitatibus

Nashe if referring to the exotic medicinal plant Guaiacum, the name of which was also "exotic", being the first Native American word imported into the English language.

P. ovata

Plantago ovata (also Psyllium ovata), the desert indianwheat, a medicinal plant species native to Western Asia and Southern Asia

Persicaria amplexicaulis

Methyl caffeate, ethyl caffeate and other phenolic compounds can be found in Polygonum amplexicaule var. sinense (Chinese name: Xuesanqi), a widely distributed medicinal plant in China.

Squill

Drimia maritima, a historically important medicinal plant, native to the Mediterranean, formerly classified as Scilla maritima

Strictosidine synthase

Originally isolated from the plant Rauvolfia serpentina, a medicinal plant widely used in Indian folk medicine, this enzyme participates in terpenoid biosynthesis and indole and ipecac alkaloid biosynthesis, both of which produce many compounds with significant physiological and medicinal properties.

V. album

Veratrum album, the false helleborine, a medicinal plant species native to Europe

V. arvensis

Veronica arvensis, the corn speedwell, common speedwell, speedwell, rock Speedwell, wall Speedwell, a medicinal plant species and a noxious weed