From the perspective of ethnobotany, the higher a plant's status among native peoples, the more potent it often proves to be medicinally. |
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The bark of alder buckthorn is removed, cut into small pieces, and dried for one year before being used medicinally. |
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Caffeine is a bitter alkaloid found especially in coffee, tea, and kola nuts and used medicinally as a stimulant and diuretic. |
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Licorice has been used medicinally for coughs, digestive problems and inflammation. |
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While we are familiar with looking to herbal formulas for medicinal value, spices also have much to offer medicinally. |
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Because of its potency, though, avoid using sage medicinally if you are pregnant or nursing. |
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The Chinese use yellow melilot medicinally, use it in cosmetics, and burn it as an incense. |
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His work on the Calabar bean provides didactic and practical routes for the synthesis of medicinally important compounds. |
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The seeds are valued medicinally for their diuretic, demulcent and stomachic properties. |
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An analogy would be that, in English folklore, the elder plant has been used in countless different ways medicinally and for food. |
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The leaves, stems, and flowers of centaury are used medicinally. |
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Lavender is used medicinally, cosmetically, culinarily and aesthetically. |
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This plant, called greasewood by the Papago, who use it medicinally, is Larrea tridentata. |
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They are also used medicinally in antibacterials and antifungals in much the same way as larger silver particles. |
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Also important in ancient times were Socotra's various endemic aloes, used medicinally, and for cosmetics. |
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It is medicinally used as a calcium supplement or as an antacid, but excessive consumption can be hazardous. |
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Dandelion, plantain, coltsfoot, stinging nettle, greater celandine and dozens of other plants were used medicinally. |
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It has been recognized as one of nature's most treasured nervines and has been traditionally used medicinally by Native Americans and Europeans. |
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It is also used medicinally in diets for children and convalescents. |
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Irises should only be used medicinally under professional guidance. |
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The genus Kadsura, which belongs to the economically and medicinally important family Schisandraceae, consists of 16 species of scandent and twining woody vines. |
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Initially, the database will have about 64,000 medicinally or toxicologically important compounds and will highlight a different molecule each week. |
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