Medicine plants

 

Medicinal plants

Can plant heal?

Medicine & Woody plants are found in hill & forest area. THE ABOVE PLANTS HAVE BEEN USED DEFECTIVELY AS MEDICINES SINCE LONG TIME BACK. Some of the most important drugs, such as aspirin, morphine and queening are made from plants. In  some countries, like china, herbal remedies are still very popular, though all of them may not have equal effect.

Willow: a cure for headache


In earlier times, people eased their pain by chewing willow bark. Scientists found out in the last century that willow contains a certain chemical that reduces pain. These comical is also found in meadow sweet. This chemical, found in plants, was used later to make aspiring, a low-cost and effective pain chiller.

Foxglove



Foxglove is use to make digital, an effective medicine used in small does to cure heart diseases. If taken in large does the some becomes highly poisonous.

Poppy power


Opium oozes from the raw seed head of the opium poppy when cut with a knife. Opium is used to make the powerful drug morphine that helps ease severe pain. It is also used to make the milder painkiller codeine that is use in cough machines. Opium is also used to make heroin, the highly dangerous and addictive drug. It is sometimes grown secretly in southeast Asia.

Plant cure cancer

Although cancer is still incurable, an extract of the rosy periwinkle, vincristine, is known to be very effective in leukemia, the cancer that effective children.

Gain and tonic to cure malaria

Quinine, extracted from the bark of south America's cinchona trees is an effective cure against malaria that once killed millions of people. Quinine also gives bitter flavor in topic water

Fever few


'Feverfew' is the name of a plant that was used effectively to treat fever. The plant is know as febrifuge in latin, which is driving away fever. Even these days it is used to lessen headaches.

Ginseng


Ginseng is a plant of the ivy family. ginseng has been widely used in china for 5,000 years. Its root is powdered and used in treating tiredness. Its said to cure kidney disease and headaches also.

The deadly nightshade

Deadly nightshade yields poisonous, red berries. Its juice is used in the drug  atropine, is put in the eyes to make the pupil bigger during eye examinations. In the middle ages, women used it to make their pupils wider and more creative. Hence the plants  got its name 'belladonna', derived from the Italian belladonna woman.

Medicinal plant



Earlier, people grew many herbs from for their medicinal porpoises, and also researches  wrote huge books listing the healing qualities of thousand of plants. One such famous book was 'The Complete Herbal' written by Nicholas Gulper (1676-1654). Today although many doctors do not value these herbs yet many important medicine are made from plants. Moreover, scientist are discovering more and more medicinal; plant over the time.

 

Woody plants

Me-trial provided by plant

PLANTS PROVIDE US with the large variety of useful materials. The most significant ones are wood and paper. However, cotton for clothes, cork for wine bottles, oils, rubber, dyes, rope and string, and many more materials that we get from plants are also important material

Cotton head


Many OF the clothes      we wear are made from only cotton, a natural fiber, or cotton combing with man-made fibers. We get cotton from the cotton flower that grows in warm areas. Its seed pods or 'bolls'  hold a dense mass of fluffy fibbers, which is formed into strands of 'cotton lint'. Cotton clothes is woven from the lint.

Reed hut


In the past, people mostly used the local plants to make boats and houses from reeds that grew in marshes. The South Americans and Ancient Egyptians also made boats of weed. The marsh Arabs of southern lraq do so even today 

Paper from plants

Paper is wood pulp flattened into sheets. Many conifers are specially grown for making paper. Even the wood from paper. Even the wood from spruce, pine, aspen, poplar and eucalyptus found in natural forest is using making paper. In South  Asia, paper is made from bamboo also paper can also made from grasses, straw and sugar cane.

Wooden house


Before the industrial Revolution, people most be live in the villages, in house made of wood and that ched with reed or straw. Only the very nice lived in brick or stone house.

Trees for wood

All trees give us wood, but the wood use for making things is known as timber which is either soft wood or hard wood. Soft wood is from fast-growing conifers like pine, larch, fir and spruce that grow in colder places. Hard wood is from slow-growing broad-leaved trees such as oak from topical trees like mahogany.

Plant carrier


Tankers carrying oil, the fuel used to run cars, bike, tractor and fire power stations are actually  carrying the ancient remains of plant and animals.

What are fossil fuels?

Fuel like coal, oil and natural gas are known as fossil, the name given to the remains of dead plants that got buried underground long ago and gradually got squeezed and concentrated to from fuel over the long period of time. Coal was made from giant ferns that grew in huge swamps and oil from tiny plants and animals   that lived in warm seas 300 million years ago.

How do plant warm houses and run cars?

We used fuel for transportation, power generation and for other needs. In developing countries, people mostly cook and keep warm by burning wood in Brazil, cars run on a petrol-like fuel, topped from the copaiba tree. In Europe and the USA and many other places on the world, the main fuel used are fossil fuels, namely, coal, oil and national gas. So 80% of the fuels we use is provided by plants.

Note- Today many moist important plants are risky because people cut trees for wood, medicinal herbs and any more.  So our responsible save the forest and trees. Trees are most important for our life.We would stop deforestation of the plants and animals.

 


About this 

The expression "therapeutic plant" keep in mind differing types of plants used for herbalism ("herbology" or "home grownup medication"). it's the employment of plants for restorative functions, and therefore the investigation of such employments. "Herb" has been gotten from the Latin word, "herba" Associate in Nursingd an Old French word "herbe".







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