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  • Herb garden (category History of medicine)
    ornamental, sometimes as part of a design and containing boxes and raised beds. The development of alternative medicine is also encouraging people to grow...
    2 KB (206 words) - 08:41, 26 September 2007
  • Apothecary (category History of medicine)
    ingredients for medicines, would also sell tobacco and patent medicines. In its investigation of herbal and chemical ingredients, the work of the apothecary...
    3 KB (299 words) - 07:22, 26 September 2007
  • number of diseases. Ibn Sina, most famous for his volumes called The Canon of Medicine regarded by many as the most famous book in the history of medicine...
    8 KB (929 words) - 04:56, 14 September 2007
  • Banisteriopsis caapi (category Flora of Peru) (section Types of vine)
    jungle vine of the family Malpighiaceae. It is used to prepare Ayahuasca, a decoction that has a long history of entheogenic uses as a medicine and "plant...
    7 KB (877 words) - 12:22, 8 May 2007
  • Siraitia grosvenorii (category Traditional Chinese medicine) (section History)
    Ram's Skull Press, Kuranda, Australia. Fruit as a medicine Fruits As Medicine: A Safe and Cheap Form of Traditional Chinese Food Therapy by Dai Yin-Fang...
    15 KB (2,196 words) - 17:44, 18 October 2007
  • male sexual dysfunction in Tibb-e-Unani (Unani Medicine), the traditional system of medicine of Indo-Pak sub-continent." Giuliano F, Allard J. Dopamine and...
    5 KB (530 words) - 03:52, 14 July 2007
  • Portulaca oleracea (category Flora of Ashmore and Cartier Islands) (section History)
    studies.Template:Fact In Greek popular medicine, purslane is used as a remedy for constipation and inflammation of the urinary system. In antiquity its healing...
    6 KB (597 words) - 19:14, 16 September 2009
  • Spice (section History)
    strain of E. coli.”...” The Lure and Lore of Spices Quote: “If the appearance of spices were to reflect their real importance in the history of the world...
    11 KB (1,436 words) - 05:12, 2 October 2007
  • Lingzhi (category Traditional Chinese medicine) (section History)
    oriental herbal medicine, classifies 365 species of roots, grass, woods, furs, animals and stones into three categories of herbal medicine: The first category...
    23 KB (3,147 words) - 06:53, 20 October 2007
  • concept of biology as a single coherent field arose in the 19th century, the biological sciences emerged from traditions of medicine and natural history reaching...
    7 KB (9,309 words) - 04:05, 15 September 2007
  • recorded history by humans as a source of fiber, for its seed oil, as food (see hemp), as a drug, as medicine, and for spiritual purposes. Each part of the...
    7 KB (980 words) - 02:54, 14 May 2010
  • and naming of plants History of plant systematics History of phycology Botanical garden and List of botanical gardens Dendrochronology List of domesticated...
    2 KB (2,787 words) - 05:23, 6 April 2007
  • majority of its recipes. Edward Gibbon wrote, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, that pepper was "a favourite ingredient of the most...
    29 KB (4,098 words) - 14:50, 17 July 2007
  • photo of this plant, please upload it! Plus, there may be other photos available for you to add. photo 1 photo 2 photo 3 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture...
    5 KB (129 words) - 16:46, 19 May 2009
  • hallucinations. The drug atropine is derived from the plant. It has a long history of use as a medicine, cosmetic, and poison. Before the Middle Ages, it was used as...
    6 KB (734 words) - 16:10, 29 January 2010
  • to as a hybrid of the Assam and China plants. Main article: List of tea diseases The leaves have been used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and other...
    6 KB (748 words) - 15:18, 20 September 2007
  • developing science. The study of botany goes back into pre-history as plants were the food of people from the beginning of time. The first attempts at plant...
    44 KB (14,701 words) - 04:07, 15 September 2007
  • Ethnobotany (category Branches of botany) (section History of Ethnobotany)
    Ethnomedicine Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine Journal of Ethnobotany Research and Applications "Before Warm Springs Dam: History of Lake Sonoma Area"...
    5 KB (690 words) - 05:16, 6 April 2007
  • Nutmeg (category Flora of Indonesia) (section History)
    intrigue to gain control of Run island, then the only source of nutmegs. At the end of the Second Anglo-Dutch War the Dutch gained control of Run in exchange for...
    15 KB (1,919 words) - 04:29, 14 September 2007
  • Lactucarium (section History)
    psychotropic. The seed of ordinary lettuce, Lactuca sativa, is still used in Avicenna's native Iran as a folk medicine, and a crude extract of the seeds was shown...
    6 KB (811 words) - 18:22, 7 November 2007
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