In the realms of traditional herbal medicine, yarrow has placed its feet (or roots) a long time ago as an ingredient for various remedies. What makes yarrow really great is actually the wide range of variety of its usages. People have been using yarrow to treat fever and common cold, menstruation problems, digestive problems and […]
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Black cohosh or known as Actaea racemosa is a kind of flowering plants which belong to the family of Ranunculaceae. It is exactly a perennial fruit bearing plant. This species originally come from Eastern North America from the extreme south of Ontario to central Georgia, and west to Missouri and Arkansas. Besides, black cohosh is […]
Horse chestnut or Aesculus hippocastanum is a kind of flowering plants in the soapberry and lychee family Sapindaceae. Horse chestnut has the large deciduous, synoecious tree and also known as the California buckeye, Ohio buckeye, and Buckeye. It originally comes from the Balkan region of southeastern Europe and western Asia, but now is cultivated worldwide. […]
There are a lot of varieties of parsley and mitsuba is one of them. Mitsuba is also well known as Japanese Parsley. Just like any parsley you know, Mitsuba is considered as herbs and used in cuisine as seasoning though sometimes as medicine as well. However, in Japan, Mitsuba is best known as vegetables because […]
If there’s any plant-based nutrition supplement which you should definitely try, it’s probably acacia gum or gum Arabic. But first, why gum Arabic? Mostly because it’s well packed with high soluble fiber content which are really great for diet, another reason is why not? nowadays acacia gumis widely available in various forms there’s no reason […]
Jasmine is a popular and exotic fragrance that is commonly used for tea. This tea have been made since a long time ago by Chinese tea grower. Now it is still consumed and researchers just found out it’s many health benefits. Jasmine leave is now consumed regularly by some people so that they can have […]
Most oil used for cooking food contain soybean oil which the main ingredient is the soybean itself. Even soybean oil is most consumed cooking oil. Soybean (Glycine Max) is included in Leguminosae or nuts group. Fat contained in soybean mostly is unsaturated fat which is very good for health because it can control cholesterol and […]
Astragalus root sounds odd for mostly Indonesian. Therefore, knowing this herbal plant becomes quite important since the plant has such health benefit which surprisingly so good. Astragalus belongs to nuts family; its root is widely used since decades as one of the most super herbals to heal diseases by traditional Chinese healer. For some Indonesia, […]
When talking about citrus family the list could be quite long and even some names are not familiar in most part of this world. One example of citrus family that is not really famous but has a lot of benefits to human health is calamansi. The size of calamansi which is small is not equal […]
Different types of oil not only serves for cooking activities to produce delicious cuisine, the use of natural oils has been used for body care. Like this coconut oil that turned out to have extraordinary properties, whereas oil is sometimes considered to be a substance that is not good and trigger the occurrence of dangerous […]