Pharmacognosy´s topics - Medicinal plants
Herbs - Medicinal Plants
Deciduous tree up to 20 meters high with a trunk 60 cm in diameter, with leaves alternate, elliptic, small flowers and fruit pulp very oily drupaceous, commonly used as food.
Medicinal Plants - Avocado
Medicinal Herbs
Garlic is an annual herb native to Central Asia but its widespread use as a condiment and medicinal properties, is cultivated in almost all continents.
Medicinal Plants - Garlic
Medicinal Herbs
Mint is a perennial herb, creeping, with angular branches, glabrous or slightly pubescent, leaves opposite, oblong, rough surface and serrated margin, shortly petiolate...
Medicinal Plants - Mint
Medicinal Herbs
The guava is a shrub or small tree up to 7 m high, sparsely branched. It has aromatic leaves, opposite, entire, 4-8 cm long, with prominent veins on the underside, resembling ribs. White attractive flowers, grouping from 1 to 3; numerous stamens arranged on a width disk...
Medicinal Plants - Guava
Medicinal Herbs
The lemon is a small tree with irregular branches armed with thick spines, stiff and sharp. Leaves of 5 to 7.5 cm long. White flowers 2 cm long. Fruit round from 3 to 6 cm, greenish yellow, with plenty of acid pulp, small white seeds shaped oval...
Medicinal Plants - Lemon
Medicinal Herbs
Beetroot is a biennial herb with stems up to 1.25 m height.Leaves simple, petiolate, ovate or oblong, become linear bracts in the inflorescence. Flowers are small, numerous, greenish, clustered in a large and diffuse terminal panicle. The parts used are roots...
Medicinal Plants - Beet
Medicinal Herbs
Branched erect herb 30-60 cm tall, elliptic leaf, ovate, oblong, a bit dentated or entire, inflorescence 20 cm long, corolla 4-5 cm long...
Medicinal Plants - Basil
Medicinal Herbs
Cocoa is a small tree of 6-8 m, with bushy branches, elliptic leaves - oblong to obovate - oblongs, from 15-30 cm, abruptly acuminate. It has small inflorescences, on the trunk and branch, pink calyx 6-7 cm and yellow petals. Fruit ovoid - oblong, lined, rough, with ovoid seeds. Are used the dried and roasted seeds....
Medicinal Plants - Cocoa
Medicinal Herbs
Pumpkin is an annual plant with short cycle grown commonly in the tropics between March and June. It is known from antiquity whose origins are lost in time...
Medicinal Plants - Pumpkin
Medicinal Herbs
The onion is a geophytewith spherical bulbsvarying size and color depending on the crop. Its leaves are lanceolate, with way of rods and white flowers clustered at the ends protruding on the rosette of leaves...
Medicinal Plants - Onion
Medicinal Herbs
Hardy grass up to 10 meters high. Strong and well-developed leaves, petioles envainadores that make the false aerial stem, limbo of 1-2 m long and 35-60 cm wide, tearing into strips perpendicular to the central axis...
Medicinal Plants - Banana
Medicinal Herbs
Tea is a shrub that grows up to four meters high, evergreen, alternate leaves, elliptic, pointed, toothed and coriaceous leaves, six to eight inches long and three inches wide...
Medicinal Plants - Tea
Medicinal Herbs
The pineapple is a plant of the family of Bromeleaceas. It has long leaves up to a meter, spiny and fleshy. The fruit is divided into sections with a crown that characterizes it...
Medicinal Plants - Pineapple
Medicinal Herbs
Herb erect, little branched, with erect stems about 50 cm tall. Leaves sessile finely divided. Very fragrant flowerheads, located at the end of the branches, with the central part hollow and in deep yellow...
Medicinal Plants - Chamomile
Medicinal Herbs
Herbaceous plant with a scaly bulb, big and white. It has a bulbous underground stem and another aerial herbaceous stem coated with leaves, few leaves are widespread and others erect, lanceolate shaped, and sparsely undulating in the edges...
Medicinal Plants - White Lily
Medicinal Herbs
High herb with fleshy leaves, hairy and angled stem used as a condiment and as an ornamental plant. It is native to tropical Asia...
Medicinal Plants - Oregano
Medicinal Herbs
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