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Mitchella repens (commonly partridge berry or squaw vine) is the best known plant in the genus Mitchella. It is a creeping prostrate herbaceous woody shrub occurring in North America belonging to the madder family ( Rubiaceae ).
It is known colloquially as the lingonberry, partridgeberry, [a] foxberry, mountain cranberry, or cowberry. It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Commercially cultivated in the United States Pacific Northwest [ 4 ] and the Netherlands , [ 5 ] the edible berries are also picked in the wild and used ...
The name partridgeberry is commonly applied to a number of plant species including: Mitchella repens; Gaultheria procumbens; Vaccinium vitis-idaea (in Newfoundland and Labrador), better known as lingonberry
Herbal tonics are believed to have healing properties ranging from relieving muscle and joint pain [3] and extend as far as inhibiting some cancers. [ 4 ] Herbal tonics can be dated as far back as 4,000 years ago [ 5 ] – as a practice thought to have originated under the sphere of traditional Chinese Medicine . [ 5 ]
Seasoned rice vinegar (合わせ酢 awasezu) is made by adding sake, salt and sugar. Additionally, mirin is also sometimes used (but only rarely). Although it can be made at home, prepared awasezu can also be readily bought at supermarkets. Seasoned rice vinegar is added to cooked rice to be used in making sushi.
Mitchella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.It is found from China to temperate eastern Asia, and from eastern Canada to Guatemala. [1]The genus Mitchella was named by Carl Linnaeus after his friend John Mitchell (1711–1768), an English physician who lived in America and gave Linnaeus much valuable information on the American flora.
The plant has been used by various tribes of Native Americans for medicinal purposes. The Delaware, Mohicans, and several other tribes made a tea from wintergreen leaves to treat kidney disorders. The Great Lakes and Eastern Woodlands tribes used a wintergreen poultice as a topical treatment for arthritic pain.
Iminosugars are common components of plants and may be responsible for some of their medicinal properties. [1] The first iminosugar to be isolated from a natural source, 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), found in Mulberry , was reported in 1976, but few others were discovered until many years later.