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Gymnema sylvestre [1] is a perennial woody vine native to Asia (including the Arabian Peninsula), Africa and Australia. It has been used in Ayurvedic medicine.Common names include gymnema, [2] Australian cowplant, and Periploca of the woods, and the Hindi term gurmar, which means "sugar destroyer".
This is a list of culinary herbs and spices. Specifically these are food or drink additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally insignificant quantities for flavoring or coloring . This list does not contain fictional plants such as aglaophotis , or recreational drugs such as tobacco .
Some herbs can be infused in boiling water to make herbal teas (also termed tisanes). [ 6 ] [ 10 ] Typically the dried leaves, flowers or seeds are used, or fresh herbs are used. [ 6 ] Herbal teas tend to be made from aromatic herbs, [ 11 ] may not contain tannins or caffeine , [ 6 ] and are not typically mixed with milk. [ 10 ]
This page is a sortable table of plants used as herbs and/or spices.This includes plants used as seasoning agents in foods or beverages (including teas), plants used for herbal medicine, and plants used as incense or similar ingested or partially ingested ritual components.
Sideritis, also known as ironwort, [1] mountain tea, Greek tea and shepherd's tea, is a genus of flowering plants known for their use as herbal medicine, commonly as a herbal tea. They are abundant in Mediterranean regions, the Balkans, the Iberian Peninsula and Macaronesia, but can also be found in Central Europe and temperate Asia. [2] [3] [4 ...
Taraxacum officinale, the dandelion or common dandelion, [6] is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the daisy family, Asteraceae.The common dandelion is well known for its yellow flower heads that turn into round balls of many silver-tufted fruits that disperse in the wind.
It is strongly suspected that the victims were poisoned by aconite, an alkaloid toxin found in the raw roots and flowers of its namesake plant. Herbal tea usually heals, but it was poison for two ...
Also, the application of plant growth regulators, for example Adenine and Zetanine, [clarification needed] has been found to be an effective means to promote water spinach growth. One study has determined, that the highest yields are produced with the application of 60 kg/ha of N, 90 kg/ha of P 2 O 5 and 50 kg/ha of K 2 O for the first harvest.