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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 foliage forms a tight rosette at ground level in the first year.

* The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish. A pleasant mild flavour, with a similar texture to the leaves, they make a pleasant and pretty addition to the salad bowl.

It is commonly cultivated in Japan where it gives its name to a particular construction technique, burdock piling. 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. * The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions an increase in respiration and later paralysis.

* For therapeutic purposes drink 1 cup of tea/day. Originally a native of Southern Europe through to Asia, it is now found throughout the world. * This species is an annual or biennial plant of the Asteraceae family.

* 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. * Celery (Apium graveolens var.

It is native to Europe and western Asia. * Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads.

* It is still used medicinally in the present day; however, there are adverse effects that limit its use. * Lobelia inflata has a long use as a medicinal plant, as an entheogenic, emetic, and a dermatological and respiratory aid.

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China.

Commonly inhabiting wooded areas and fences and often found growing with other species of Smilax. It is native to central and eastern portions of the United States, where it is a common and conspicuous part of the forest vegetation.

The inflated bladder like flowers are interesting. It is considered a noxious weed in the state of Washington and seems to be tolerated most others. It is pollinated by evening flying insects and provides seed as food for finches in the winter.

* It is fragarnt and attracts bees and butterflies! * It is a short lived perennial or biennial but will self seed. * It tolerates a wide range of soil types and will grow in full sun or partial shade.

The sprouted seeds are eaten in salads, sandwiches, soups, stews etc. * Chia (Salvia hispanica) was the third most important food of the Aztecs in the time of Cortez (behind corn and beans and in front of amaranth), and has long been an important crop...

* The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use. When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root.

* The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved varieties. It works by doubling the chromosome number.

S Anhui, Fujian, S Gansu, N Guangdong, N Guangxi, Guizhou, W Henan, W Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, E Yunnan, Zhejiang [N India, ?Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam] * This is a very important medicinal species from Southern China.

* The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Althaea officinalis Marsh Mallow for irritation of mouth and throat and associated dry cough/bronchitis .

The sprouted seeds are eaten in salads, sandwiches, soups, stews etc. * Chia (Salvia hispanica) was the third most important food of the Aztecs in the time of Cortez (behind corn and beans and in front of amaranth), and has long been an important crop...

* Bearsfoot root was used by the North American Indians as a stimulant and laxative remedy. * It is said to be of great use when applied externally to stimulate hair growth and is an ingredient of many hair lotions and ointments.

The other herbs included in the formula are Arctium lappa, Ulmus rubra and Rumex acetosella. * Rheum palmatum , known as Turkey rhubarb , Chinese rhubarb , ornamental rhubarb , and East Indian rhubarb , is a plant in the family Polygonaceae .

* A biennial with pretty four-petaled fragrant flowers in loose clusters, white to purplish and everything in between; the main flowering is in May in New York state; native to Europe, but naturalized and nearly ubiquitous in the open woodlands of the...

* The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals. Angustifolia , but plants often grow taller, ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 ft (45 to 75 cm) tall, with some growing 3 feet (90 cm) or more tall.

* The unripe fruits are preserved in brine like olives. ; Japanese : ??? They are also added to herbal medicines in order to disguise obnoxious flavours. The very fragrant flowers are used by the Chinese to impart a pleasant aroma to tea, wine and sweet...

* Bright green stems in winter, bright yellow 1 1/2" flowers in spring, bright green leaves in summer; flowers in full shade, although it gets sloppy and gangly if not tended to, at least in the U.S. North; does well in the South; native to central and...

This species is cultivatedas a vegetable in China. Plants are not very cold-tolerant, but they can beoverwintered outdoors in areas where winter temperatures do not fall below about -5°c.

A gently warming and tonic herb, it is especially effective in treating coughs, consumption, bronchitis and many other complaints of the chest as well as disorders of the digestive system.

Miyabeanum , and P. * The seed is very agreeable to the taste. All parts of this plant are likely to be poisonous , containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids . In particular, P.