Like so many plants that we tend to ignore or value only for their aesthetic appearance, there may be more to biting stonecrop than meets the eye. Maybe the plant grows wild near your home or maybe it adorns your garden so if you would like to find out more about this plant and … [Read more...]
Health Benefits of Rock Samphire
Rock samphire is an edible perennial plant that grows near the sea on rocks and cliffs and sometimes even on sand and shingles. Despite not being especially well-known for its medicinal uses, rock samphire does have several potential benefits and several studies have already … [Read more...]
Benefits and Side Effects of Cinchona
What is Cinchona? Most everybody will be familiar with quinine as one of the main drugs used to treat malaria but how many people know where quinine came from in the first place? The answer lies in an accidental discovery made by a Jesuit Priest working as an apothecary in Peru … [Read more...]
7 Amazing Health Benefits of Bogbean
Let’s be honest, there are more attractively named plants than bogbean but try not to let the name put you off. This aquatic plant gets its name from the swamps and marshlands that it calls home. Like so many plants, bogbean contains a number of useful compounds and offers a … [Read more...]
8 Amazing Health Benefits of Balloon Flower Root
Balloon flower may be viewed by many as a beautiful ornamental plant, but the plant has actually been used for its health benefits in parts of Asia for many centuries. Balloon flower which is known by the Chinese as ‘jie geng’ is also used as a culinary ingredient in Korea. The … [Read more...]
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