Life Root
BO: Senecio aureus SYN: life root or golden ragwort USE: Emmenagogue Toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids found on life root:
Senecionine Otosenine Florosenine Floridanine Carcinogenic in nature
Linden Flowers
BO: Tilia species (Fam. Tiliaceae) SYN: Linden flowers USE: remedy foe colds, headache, indigestion & nervousness
Lovage
BO: Levisticum officinale USE: mild stomachic (tonic for the stomach), weak diuretic (induce urination) Contains several coumarins and 1% volatile oil Volatile oil containing plant that are weak diuretics
Marigold
BO: Calendula officinalis USE: applied locally as a vulnerary (used for healing wounds) in chronic skin ulcers, contusins, cuts, hemorrhoids, sprains & warts. Contains bitter principles:
Carotenoids Flavonoids
Mistletoe
BO: American mistletoe is Phoradendron tomentosum; European mistletoe is Viscum album USE: Tx for anxiety to cancer, has physiologic effect when injected IV in mammals 3 subspecies
Album (broad-leaved trees) Abietis Abromeit (abies alba) Austriacum Vollman (pinus & pinea sp.) Phoratoxin Phoradendron sp
Toxic proteins:
Mormon Tea
BO: Ephedra nevadensis SYN: Mexican tea, teamsters tea, squaw tea, and im mexico as popotillo USE: treatment for syphilis and gonorrhea, mild diuretic, slightly constipating Substitute for caffeinecontaining ordinary coffee or tea. Doesnt contain ephedrine
Muria Puama
BO: from the 2 brazillian shrubs: Ptychopetalum olacoides & Ptychopetalum incinatum SYN: potency wood USE: aphrodisiac and nerve tonic Administered orally but effect is also believed to be obtained by bathing the genitals with a conc. Extract of the drug
Oregano
BO: Origanum vulgare SYN: Wild marjoram USE: culinary flavoring agent, tx of toothaches and oral inflammations, carminative, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, tonic, relief for arthritic joints and nervous headaches. Contains a volatile oil whose distinctive ingredient is carvacrol
Pangamic Acid
SYN: Calcium Pangamate, Vitamin B15 Not recognized as essential in human nutrition and is therefore not a vitamin Dichloroacetate is found as component of some pangamic products that causes adverse reactions in diabetic patients
Parsley
BO: Petroselinium crispum USE: diuretics, stomachics Rich natural source of carotene, ascorbic acid, and other minerals. Diuretic effect is based on its volatile oil (0.1% in roots, 0.3% in leaves, 2-7% in fruits) Apiol and myristicin are uterine stimulants accounting for the use of parsley as
Passiflora
BO: Passiflora incarnata SYN: Passion flower USE: calmative agent, sedative. Administered in the form of a tea.
Pau dArco
BO: Tabebuia impetiginosa SYN: Taheebo or ipe roxo USE: antineoplastic agent Rich in lapachol (2-7%), a naphthoquinine derivative
Pennyroyal
BO: Hedeoma pulegioides SYN: American pennyroyal USE: aromatic stimulant, carminative, diaphoretic and emmenagogue Medicinal uses of the plant were related to its volatile oil whose principal constituents include:
(-)-menthone
Poke Root
BO: Phytolacca americana USE: emetic & cathartic properties for the Tx of dyspepsia and especially chronic rheumatism Plant bears racemes flowers that develop into clusters of dark purple to almost black, shinning, compound berries. Extracts of poke are mitogenic (induces
Pollen
USE: health food and general tonic Pollen available in health foods consists of mixtures of the pollens of various entomophilous species Contains small amt of vitamins, minerals, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, enzymes and etc,
Propolis
Origin: brownish resinous material collected by bees from the buds of various poplar and conifer trees Used by insects to fill cracks or gaps in the hive SYN: Bee glue USE: natural antibiotic, antifungal
Red Bush Tea
BO: Aspalathus linearis SYN: Rooibos tea USE: stomachic w/o adverse cardiac or gastrointestinal effect because it does not contain xanthine bases and little tannins
Rose Hips
BO: Rosa canina Contains concentrations of ascorbic acid (0.51.7%) Vitamin content is highly dependent on:
Exact botainic variety employed Its habitat Climate grown Time of collection Method of drying
Royal Jelly
Origin: milky white, highly viscous secretion from the paired salivary glands of the worker honey bee Apis mellifera Sole food of bee larvae for the first 3 days of life and future queens continue to be nurtures by the product that is responsible for their development into mature female insects Contains proteins, lipids, fatty acids, and vitamin B complex especially pantothenic acid USE: Tonic
