The great Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author Pedanius Dioscorides, who lived in the 1st century A.D., knew the medicinal…
Eryngium campestre is a plant of the Umbelliferae family that looks like a thistle. It is sometimes called the "Watling…
Wild celery is an essential ingredient in all broths and depurative recipes, along with onion, nettle, cabbage, and lemon. The…
When talking about the wild strawberry plant, we mean those blood-red tears that grow on bush slopes, giving an exquisite…
When strolling through the fantastic valleys, there may still be a "non-owned" cherry tree that gives the walker and the…
Dioscorides and Theophrastus already knew about the sarsaparilla plant, and Laguna and Mattioli also mentioned it. However, it only became…
The first to describe the many medicinal properties of the goldenrod plant was Arnau DE Vilanova (Valencia, Spain, 1240- Genova,…
Indian corn was an essential food for most inhabitants of America before Columbus arrived there. Aztecs, Mayans, Incas, and Native…
These people drink a dark beverage made with the cacao plant, which they say comes from Paradise. A Spanish soldier…
Dioscorides, the great Greek botanist and physician of the 1st century A.D., recommended giant reed to increase urine production. This…