Medicinal Plant Seeds For Sale In Salt Lake City

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine . A bitter tasting pungent herb with an antiseptic effect, it is chiefly used to treat boils, carbuncles, mumps and infected neck glands.

* The plant is part of a North American formula called essiac which is a popular treatment for cancer. * Rheum palmatum , known as Turkey rhubarb , Chinese rhubarb , ornamental rhubarb , and East Indian rhubarb , is a plant in the family Polygonaceae...

Aristolochic acid is said to be too toxic for clinical use. A decoction of the fruit is used in the treatment of cancer, coughs, inflammation of the respiratory organs, haemorrhoids and hypertension.

Officinalis has a rounded base, while that of M. Officinalis differs very little from Magnolia obovata; the only difference that is consistently observed between the two being that the fruit aggregate of M.

It works by doubling the chromosome number. * The species is commonly cultivated in temperate areas. * The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved...

Female inflorescence erect, oblong-cylindric, 2-3 cm × 7-8 mm; peduncle robust, 3-6 mm, sparsely pubescent; bracts 4-5 mm, glabrous, 3-lobed, middle lobe lanceolate, lateral lobes spreading, ovate-lanceolate, ca.

The species is rarely cultivated but has ornamental leaves, flowers, and foliage. Douglasii or C. The common name "Blueberry haw" refers to the appearance of the fruit, which are almost blue, and not to their taste.

It is not used commercially due to the small size of the tree. It bears the alternate common names California fremontia and flannel flower . Wood - fine-grained, hard to soft, heavy.

* Marsh mallow is a very useful household medicinal herb. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Althaea officinalis Marsh Mallow for irritation of mouth and throat and associated dry cough/bronchitis .

The species is rarely cultivated but has ornamental leaves, flowers, and foliage. Douglasii or C. The common name "Blueberry haw" refers to the appearance of the fruit, which are almost blue, and not to their taste.

Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic. It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and ulcers in the mouth. It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous...

* The peeled roots are cut up and added to soups. * The hardy plant can grow to a height of 60 cm.Comfrey has been used in folk medicine as a poultice for treating burns and wounds.

* An edible oil is extracted from the seed. The plant contains beta-carbolines, which (in doses high enough) act as a psychedelic drug . * Many 3" nodding blue, red, purple, or white nodding flowers on a branching stem; forms basal rosette of 20" leaves;...

* It can grow in very alkaline soils, but not in the shade. The bark also contains fraxetin.This has an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, is a stronger and safer anodyne than aspirin and has some antibacterial activity.

* The young shoots can be eaten cooked. * Spiny stems, leaves to 30" long, white flowers. They can also be blanched and used in salads. * It is an upright deciduous small tree or shrub growing up to 6 m in height, native to eastern Russia , China , Korea...

They should be harvested in the spring before the plant comes into flower. * Sanguisorba officinalis ( Great Burnet ) is a plant in the family Rosaceae , subfamily Rosoideae . The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute.

Taxol has shown exciting potential as an anti-cancer drug, particularly in the treatment of ovarian cancers. It has thin scaly brown bark. * Modern research has shown that it contains the substance 'taxol' in its shoots and bark.

* A wax on the fruit is obtained by simmering the fruit in hot water and skimming off the wax as it rises to the surface. Utahensis ) is a shrub or small tree reaching 3-6 m (rarely to 9 m) tall.

Needles (to 6” long) in bundles of two are an attractive dark green. It tends to develop a somewhat flattened and spreading crown with age, hence the specific epithet of tabuliformis.

It is not used commercially due to the small size of the tree. It bears the alternate common names California fremontia and flannel flower . Wood - fine-grained, hard to soft, heavy.

Erythropoda , C. (1997) that “With only three native species of Crataegus in our [intermountain] range, we are virtually free from the taxonomic difficulties encountered in distinguishing the taxa of the central and eastern part of the continent * Crataegus...

It is hardy to zone 8. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) * The root is used in the treatment of rheumatism and other bone diseases. It is in flower from Jun to July.

The flowers have a scent of apricots. Kinmokusei ; also known as Sweet Olive, Tea Olive and Fragrant Olive) is a species of Osmanthus native to Asia , from the Himalaya east through southern China ( Guizhou , Sichuan , Yunnan ) and to Taiwan and to southern...

An essential oil from the leaves is used as a flavouring. * The leaves can also be harvested in late summer and dried for later use. The leaves are used as a flavouring in vinegar.

These include Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Zaire, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, KwaZulu-Natal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal,...

Flesh is juicy, acid, whitish and aromatic. The fruit is usually called soursop due to its slightly acidic taste when ripe. * The fruit is dark green, prickly (or bristled), egg-shaped and can be up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long, with a moderately firm...