Goldenseal grows wild in wooded and humid mountainous regions of North America. It appreciates the carpeted floor leaves. Because of overharvesting, it has virtually disappeared from its natural habitat therefore, only products derived from the crop should be purchased and multiplied by division of the root, the rhizomes of the 3-year-old plants are uprooted in autumn, then dried outdoors on a canvas.
Native to the Maluku Islands, nutmeg grows in the tropics. The tree bears fruit after 8 years and can continue to produce for more than 60 years. The ripe fruits are picked, and the nuts are separated flowers to dry them.
The sabal grows on the sandy dunes bordering the Atlantic coast, from South Carolina to Texas Il multiplies from seed in spring on well drained soils and very sunny. The berries, harvested at maturity in autumn, are often ginned before being dried.
Throughout Black Africa, the Securidaca longepedunculata are known to keep snakes away from habitations. On the other hand, by swallowing about one gram of roots, traditional healers protect themselves from snake bites when they go out into the bush to harvest.
Native to North America, skullcap is fond of wetlands and requires plenty of sunlight, and is grown either from seedlings or by division of the root in spring. years are harvested in summer, in full bloom.
The populations of West Africa, particularly in Ghana and Ivory Coast, are well acquainted with this plant, which is rich in healing properties, and their traditional doctors have always been able to use it to treat a kyrielle pathologies, but also as a fortifier.It was not until the 1980s that scientists were interested in griffonia.
Originally from North China and Mongolia, ephedra often grows in desert areas. It is grown from seedlings in autumn or by root division in autumn or spring, and requires well-drained soil are harvested all year round then dried.
Cardamom is native to Southern India and Ceyian, where it grows in forests between 800 and 1500 m altitude. It is cultivated throughout South-East Asia and Central America sown in autumn or by division of the root in spring and summer, it appreciates soils shading, rich and wet, but dramas.
This plant is very popular with birth attendants all over the Sahel. The leaves are particularly recommended for the delivery of pregnant women because they are oxytocic. On the other hand and perhaps by analogy, the leaves and roots are used in sterility and impotence. The leaves are also used as depuratives. The seeds can be grilled as a substitute for coffee.
The plant is used in traditional medicine as antidiarrheal.This plant native to India is grown in all tropics for food (seeds).
There are three main traditional indications for antidysenteric, diuretic febrifuge. Trunk bark and roots are used in the form of decoction or maceration in intestinal this plant: and parasites, blenorrhoea, ascites and sterility. ‘Holarrhena floribunda is prescribed as an antidysenteric and antiamibian in the African pharmacopoeia published by the OAU’.
The rhizomes of this plant contain an essential oil with a pleasant scent and is very used to disinfect the drinking water. t is necessary to distinguish this vetiver from the other species Vetiveria zizanoides which grows in Asia and whose essence is at the base of many fragrances.
Native to Asia , ginkgo is cultivated in China , France and the United States (South Carolina). It produces yellow – green , fan – shaped leaves with radiating veins, as well as pseudo – fruits round, about 3 cm in diameter. Leaves and pseudo – fruits are harvested in autumn.
Already used by the Romans in ancient times, hops were introduced as a medicinal plant in herbal medicine only around the 10th century. These are Arab doctors who recognize him, the first, its soothing properties soporific.