Sentences with phrase «use of plant medicine»

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There are cannabinoids and terpenes produced in the trichomes in the tops of the plant that can be used in wide varieties of medical practices, and triterpenoids in the roots that can also be used as herbal medicine.

«In Indian agriculture,» said Shiva, «women use up to 150 different species of plants (weeds) as medicine, food or fodder.

More sophisticated use of GM plants and animals to produce human medicines — dubbed «pharming» — is a new field which promises to deliver drugs too complex to be synthesised in the test tube.

Many of the Western medicines that we use today are derived from plants found in tropical forests.

Although many of the plants used — including dandelion, holy basil, and ginger — can also be made and consumed as teas, tinctures differ in that they're much stronger; a medicine dropperful of a tincture is more potent than a full cup of steeped tea.

This plant has been used as a medicine for hundreds of years, and has been shown to increase milk supply.

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The cannabis plant can be used to produce a number of products including seeds, pulp, and medicine.

One of these was withaferin A, a compound derived from a plant known as Indian ginseng that has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries to treat a range of diseases, including epilepsy.

Despite the legal hubbub, the scientists see the real excitement in the opportunity to explore and exploit the health benefits of a poorly understood plant that already has several proven medical uses, including relieving pain and nausea associated with cancer treatment, according to a 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Some of the plants, like the snakegourd root, are still used in traditional medicines.

Kaileh's research has confirmed the medicinal properties — anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer — of this plant species, which has been used as herbal medicine in the Middle East, as well as other countries like India, for decades.

It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the develop - ment of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for.

«It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the development of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for,» he says, predicting that personalized medicine will create a «different dynamic in terms of how the industry is funded and how medicines are manufactured in the future.»

Aromatherapy,, commonly associated with complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), is the use of volatile liquid plant materials, known as essential oils (EOs), and other aromatic compounds from plants to affect someone's mood or health.

And one of the fundamental plants used in Chinese medicine, Trichosanthes kirilowii, is now being investigated for its anti-HIV properties.

The use of plants as treatments dates to at least 3000 b.c. Today this practice is part of a broader movement known as complementary and alternative medicine.

But residue analyses on pots found there may explain the mystery, as Peyronel and his colleagues described in a paper last year: The researchers found traces of wild plants often used for medicine, such as poppy for opium to dull pain, heliotrope to fight viral infections, and chamomile to reduce inflammation.

A compound found in some plants used in traditional medicine has been linked to a 78 per cent of cases of liver cancer in hospitals in Taiwan

So yeah, you have to spend some more time doing interviews and asking exactly how it is used, how it is prepared, because often they are detoxifying the plants or they are making mixtures of the plants, so and not [that's] something that's really hard for western medicines to deal with.

So it can be more specifically the study of plants that people use for food, for clothing, for medicine, for construction, for ceremony, for decoration — any useful plant you might talk about and I've specifically focused on the medicinal plants and the edible plants and with my research on chocolate, I guess, the psychoactive plants too, you could say.

Salicylic acid (SA) is a common example of a widely - used plant - based medicine.

The government of Alberta and private funders have given C$ 25.2 million ($ 22.1 million) to two new research programs that will study genomics to discover new ways to use microbes in energy production and new uses for plants in medicine and in industry, Genome Alberta said today...

The plant is related to mint, historically grows in India and has been used in traditional medicine for hundreds of years because of its overall health benefits.

As a functional medicine doctor, my goal is to search out the best way for my patients to use food as medicine to optimize their health, and as a tea obsessive, I have a particular penchant for the healing power of the plants in the tea kingdom.

What it is: A spice, made from the dried stigmas of crocus plants, that is used in cooking and also in traditional Persian medicine to treat symptoms of depression (among other conditions).

A leafy green plant that grows in Southeast Asia, Holy Basil has been used for centuries in Indian medicine for treating a variety of aliments.

Plant medicine has been used for thousands of years and is the way of the future.

The single most mentioned fruit in all of Ayurveda (an ancient natural medicine practice used in India for the past 5,000 years), amla is a medicinal plant with incredibly effective capabilities to minimize inflammation and reverse chronic disease.

The young leaves of the guava plant are used in traditional medicine in tropical countries.

Used in traditional Indian medicine for literally hundreds of years, this plant is believed to be beneficial in the treatment of a number of ailments.

An herb from the flowering Chinese Golden Thread plant that is one of the fundamental herbs used in Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Intrigued by the plant's traditional use, researchers at Hallym University College of Medicine in Seoul, Institute of Natural Medicine, and Scigenic, a Korean phyto - pharmaceutical company, suspected that one particular constituent of Angelica gigas had powerful pharmacological activity.

Ginger Root is one of the most important plants used in Chinese herbal medicine due to its ability to remove toxins from your body.

One agave nectar advert says «For thousands of years natives to central Mexico used different species of agave plants for medicine, as well as for building shelter.»

Based on the use of plants as natural remedies for many day - to - day and chronic illnesses, botanical medicine continues to be the most common therapy used around the globe.

Various parts of the plant can be used in medicine to treat * different ailments.

Moisturizing oils are commonly used in the treatment of atopic dermatitis, and those that are plant - based have a place in alternative medicine.

He discovered that for burns, boils and wounds of almost every description, the Indians were using a «tea» made by their Medicine Man from a species of plant known as witch hazel.

From the root to all of the above - ground parts of a dandelion, the entire plant can be used to make medicine.

It has been called «King of the Plants» in Chinese medicine and has been used for healing for thousands of years.

According to Mountain Rose Herbs, «Dandelion is a sunny, subtle, yet incredibly healing plant used for thousands of years in China and mentioned in traditional Arabian medicine in the tenth century C.E..

A full list of all the uses of chamomile would grow quite long, so we've culled together just a few reasons to keep this plant around as part of your «kitchen medicine cabinet.»

Coined by Dr. Nikolai Lazarev in 1947, the term «adaptogen» encompasses a limited variety of safe and non-toxic plants that have long been used in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine as natural healers.

Botanical medicine is a treatment that involves the therapeutic use of plant substances, such as standardized herbal products, to promote physiological healing.

Dr. Stancic is a board - certified lifestyle medicine physician and the founder and owner of Stancic Health and Wellness, where she treats patients using lifestyle modification, including a plant - based diet.

The Arnica plant has a bright yellow flower that's been used in homeopathic medicine for hundreds of years.

In addition to the traditional medicine systems that developed clinical herbal practices over thousands of years, there used to be a knowing amongst women about which herbs are safe, helpful and appropriate during pregnancy — largely drawn from experience and regional plant growth.

The fruit, seeds, peel, bark, and leaves of the plant have been extensively used in the ancient Ayurveda system of medicine to treat a wide variety of health conditions, from diarrhea and intestinal worms to cardiovascular issues and hemorrhoids.

You might not make a lot of new friends if you chew on garlic, a plant used for centuries as both a pungent flavoring and a medicine.