Biennial Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In District Of Columbia

* Wild celery has a long history of medicinal and food use. The leaves are pinnate to bipinnate with rhombic leaflets 3–6 cm long and 2–4 cm broad. It is an aromatic bitter tonic herb that reduces blood pressure, relieves indigestion, stimulates the...

* The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions an increase in respiration and later paralysis. This plant is native to Europe, but is now widespread throughout most of the United States as a common weed.

The inflated bladder like flowers are interesting. * This plant is commonly seen along roadsides and in disturbed places in North America. It is considered a noxious weed in the state of Washington and seems to be tolerated most others.

* Milk thistle has been grown as a medicinal plant in monastery gardens since ancient times. Let stand 30 minutes before drinking. The roots can be eaten raw or boiled and buttered or par-boiled and roasted.

* Generally grown as an annual to produce desired onions for eating. Great for slicing and fresh eating! * Also make very good fried onion rings and can be used in cooking where a mild onion flavor is desired.

* The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish. * Malvus sylvestris is a spreading herb , who is an annual in North Africa , biennial in the Mediterranean and a perennial elsewhere .

The root is thought to be particularly good at helping to eliminate heavy metals from the body. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine.

* Lobelia inflata has a long use as a medicinal plant, as an entheogenic, emetic, and a dermatological and respiratory aid. The seed usually germinates within 2 weeks. * Seed propagation - sow spring or autumn in situ.

* The leaves are eaten raw or cooked. * The seed is used as a flavouring in liqueurs such as Chartreuse. They are also used to sweeten tart fruits. * The essential oil of the roots of Angelica archangelica contains ?-terebangelene, C10H16, and other terpenes;...

It should not be used by pregnant women. * The plant should not be used internally without experienced supervision, externally it is used in the treatment of slow-healing cuts, eczema, infected toe and finger nails etc.

* Bai Tou Weng is thought to clear toxicity and to lower fever. It is most commonly taken as a decoction to counter infection within the gastro-intestinal tract. * Anemone chinensis is a basionym of the currently known Pulsatilla chinensis and is one...

Plant the roots out very shallowly. * The species, from central Europe and Russia, has blue-purple, lavender, or white flowers, but there are dozens of cultivars, in a varied range of splendid blues, purples, pinks, and whites, including some of the most...

It has a profound tonic effect upon a diseased heart, enabling the heart to beat more slowly, powerfully and regularly without requiring more oxygen. * The much-loved foxglove of cottage gardens; flowers usually purple, but may be white, pink, or some...

* A dark red dye is obtained from the leaves. Wood - white, beautifully veined. * Nice shiny dark green leaves to 3"; large shrub, small tree; quarter-inch bright red fruit in fall; best of the hardy evergreen hollies, Dirr says; may not do well in hot...

Vincent van Gogh and Ernest Hemingway were Absinthe drinkers. A warm compress has been used to ease sprains and strained muscles. * The plant is applied externally to bruises and bites.

S Gansu (Min Xian, Xigu), E Qinghai (Haiyan Xian, Xining Shi), E Xizang (Sog Xian) [Kazakhstan, Russia (Siberia); SE Europe (Bosnia, Croatia)]. Very worthy of greater use, especially in areas where flowering shrub choices are limited by lack of drought...

This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...

* All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries...

* Sow the seed in March/April in a greenhouse only just covering the seed. Peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns .

The seed has a strong bitter taste that, in parts of the Mediterranean, is dried, ground and used as a spice in breads and pastries. It prefers moist soil. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.

* The barkcontains aesculin, this has anti-inflammatory, anticoagulant and analgesic actions. * A small ash native to China with 1 1/2" leaflets on compound leaves and 1" seeds. The bark also contains fraxetin.This has an inhibitory effect on the central...

* The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis also has inhibitory effects on isolated cancer cell cultures. Studies in mice suggest that Gleditsia sinensis ethanolic extract could be an effective therapeutic agent for the treatment of allergic asthma.

It is especially useful in states of exhaustion from chronic disease and in all cases of debility, weakness of the digestive system and lack of appetite. Other names include 'Yellow Gentian', 'Bitter Root', 'Bitterwort', 'Centiyane', and 'Genciana'.

It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all amongst the earlier white settlers. It is a perennial plant growing to 0.6-2 m (1 -2 feet) tall, with clustered orange or yellow flowers from early summer to early...

* A very ornamental and long-lived plant, surviving in gardens for 50 years or more. This species is lime tolerant. * Paeonia lactiflora , also Chinese Peony ( ? * An easily grown and undemanding plant, it does best in a deep rich soil, preferably neutral...

The root is thought to be particularly good at helping to eliminate heavy metals from the body. * Burdock is one of the foremost detoxifying herbs in both Chinese and Western herbal medicine.

It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum. * An excrescence produced on the leaf by an insect Melaphis chinensis or M.