Comfrey leaf has a long history of use to promote the healing of bones and wounds, as well as internal use to treat a wide variety of ailments from arthritis to ulcers. Dioscorides recorded how it was used in treating the armies of Alexander the Great, and Pliny the Elder also makes mention of its great many uses. Its use in Chinese traditional medicine spans over 2000 years. All Materia Medica from the Middle Ages forward carried descriptions on the uses of comfrey. Comfrey bathes were ve ...(more)
The daisy-like feverfew was once believed to have been used to save the life of someone who had fallen from the Parthenon, the temp of the goddess Athena on the Acropolis in Athens, hence its scientific name parthenium. Feverfew was used to treat menstrual cramps in young women in Greek medicine, and also for colic, inflammation fever, insect bites, psoriasis, toothache, vertigo and arthritis in the Middle Ages. Currently feverfew is among the world's bestselling herbs, used primary to tre ...(more)
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Tribulus terrestris is a taprooted herbaceous perennial plant that grows as a summer annual in colder climates.
History
The use of tribulus terrestris extract can be dated back to ancient times in China where it was most often used for treating health problems pertaining to the urinary system. It is also mentioned in Greek history that the extract was used to treat problems relating to the nervous and digestive system. T. terrestris has ...(more)
Turnera diffusa and Turnera aphrodisiaca has the same medicinal properties, whereas Turnera ulmifolia looks the same but has a different chemistry.
Introduction:
Damiana is a small shrub reaching a height of 4 to 6 feet (1-2 meters), bearing sweet-smelling, serrated leaves growing 4 to 10 inches (10-25 cm) long. Small, yellow flowers bloom in summer and are followed by small fruits with a fig-like taste. The Greeks named it aphrodisiakos, and it was known as the "goddess of love". Th ...(more)
Cramp bark is a large deciduous shrub growing as much as 15 feet (5 m) tall and 15 feet wide. It is native to the moist lowland forests of England and Scotland and naturalized to moist forests of the northern United States and southern Canada. The bark is stripped before the leaves change color in the fall, or before the buds open in the spring. A member of the honeysuckle family, cramp bark bears large white flowers, up to 5 inches (12 cm) across that yield red berries in the fall. The be ...(more)