DailyCelestialChallenge Saturday - Agriculture (medicinal plants)

yessicafcp (53)in #celestialchallenge • 7 years ago

Medicinal plants. 🌿 🍃

Agriculture is an activity through which people cultivate the land to obtain plants that serve them as food and to produce natural medicines , Here some of those medicinal plants.

For many centuries, humanity has used herbs and medicinal plants to prevent and cure diseases.
In natural medicine, both special herbs in the natural state and medicines made from vegetable products are used.

The medicinal plants can be bought in pharmacies or in special stores. But it can also be collected from the field once collected. they are left to dry and kept in glass jars.! To use the medicinal plants that we have harvested we must know that part of them has the healing effects: the root, the stem, the leaves, the flower, or the seeds.

The medicinal plants can be prepared in various ways, they can be cooked for half an hour or colacadas boiling for a few minutes. The medicinal plants thus prepared can have a diverse smell and flavor.

Let's see some examples of medicinal plants, the parts that are used and the effects that each one of them has on our organism: **The orange blossom (flower)** : Orange blossom is the flower of the orange tree, the lemon tree, the citron orange tree and other citrus trees. Azahar is a word of Arabic origin that means 'white flower', and orange blossom water has been used for hundreds of years both for medicinal purposes, menstrual discomfort, nervous states, colic, fainting.

Tarragon sheet.

It has eupeptic, carminative and emenagogue actions. It is used in heavy digestion, regulation of menstrual periods, in meteorism, hiccups, anorexia and food inappetence.

The root has also been used topically in dog bites and snakes. And the fresh leaves have use in arthritic pain and prevention of vascular accidents. It is in different specific and prepared, for administration in the form of poultices, baths for feet and hands in arthritic pain, surrounded by gauze for toothache, and in infusions.

Linden leaves.

These are known for their healing properties to fight colds, or other conditions.They are also used as tranquilizers or sleeping pills prepared in the form of an infusion or tea called lime.A few recent studies have discovered in his flowers hepatoprotective effects. They are very visited by bees to obtain pollen.

The Mint

Peppermint helps to overcome insomnia, decongests the respiratory tract, combats bad breath, relaxes the instestinal mucosa, etc.

Valerian.

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