There are so many varieties of herbs that you could find the marketplace today, some of them are really coming with great benefits, while others are only used to encourage herbs sale. One of the herbal plant that recently is gaining its popularity is Konjac. Some people thought konjac falls to the second category of […]
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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 […]
Being green means being healthy. Well, it also applies with herbs and parsley is one of the green herbs that is not only flavoring your food but also offering you a lot of benefits to your healthy lifestyle, especially for beauty sake because parsley is packed with nutrients that are great for hair and skin. […]
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, […]
Binahong leaf? What kind of leaf is that? Yes, the name is not that familiar. But, maybe some of us will recognize it if we already see it. Binahong is a plant that usually creep on wall or fence. Internationally, this leaf called Heartleaf maderavine madevine because its shape looks like heart sign. We can […]
Still in the theme of health and benefits, now we will talk about health benefits of red ginger korea. Do you know something about fermented korean red ginseng? Before we talk more about red ginseng korea, what is ginseng? Ginseng is one of the traditional  medicinal herb to cure any all illness because ginseng contains many […]
For those who are familiar with skincare products must have come across tea tree oil at least once. But, how many of them really know how tea tree oil came into being? The first time one heard about it, high chance are that they would suspect the oil to come out of the tree of […]
Now we will discuss about candlenut. Somethings that familiar to us. Yup. The candlenut usually we met up in traditional market. Candlenut which always called ‘Aleurites moluccana‘ in science is have relationship with cassava. Usually candlenut is made to some food ingredients. But candlenut have a more usability, not only in food ingredients but candlenut […]
Lotus is one of plant that lived at muddy area such as pond and swamp. This flower comes from India and Vietnam and become the icon of those 2 countries. It has some Latin name such as Nelumbo nucifera, Nelumbium nelumbo, Nelumbo speciosa, and Nelumbium speciosum. Many of us considered lotus as water lily, but […]
Coriander seed is one of the spice gems which mostly Asian couldn’t live without because most of Indian’s recipes are using coriander seeds as well as most of part of Asia including Mediterranean regions and Middle East. Though it is extremely popular in Asia but it is less popular in western cuisine though right now, […]