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Photo Credits: All ALWP CEBP showing varieties of foxgloves and snapdragons #MedicineTrees #MedicinalHerbs #CardiacGlycosides #Digoxin #Digitalis #Digitoxin #MedicineTrees #Botanical#MedicinalPlants#HerbalMedicine #PlantMedicine #TakingLeadFromNature #Herbals #PlantHybridisation #GregorMendel #PisumSativum #MendelianLaws #HeredityLaws #SnapdragonsAndFoxgloves #ContemporariesDarwinMendel #MendelianLaws #FoxglovesColour #DigitalePouprée #Dedalera #Digitale #毛地黄 #DigitalisPurpureaColour @MedicineTrees2023 #SkinColour #UniversityOfReading Two years ago, I was given a white and a purple foxglove which delighted me all…

As Coleridge described better than most in his Ancient Mariner (see excerpt at the end) the first transoceanic voyage in the age of the sail was a dicy dance with death. In the first half of the eighteenth century, the British Admiralty deciding to end Spanish monopoly in the Pacific sent an expedition consisting of…

Citrus medica (citron) was the first citrus to be introduced (~ fifth to fourth century BC) to the West from Asia where it originated, possibly in north-eastern India, south-western China, Burma, or the Malay Archipelago. Seeds and pollen of the citron dating to perhaps as early as the 3rd century BC have been found by…

What does a loquat taste like? A question as difficult to answer as ‘What does a pomegranate, an orange, a mandarin, or a lemon taste like? All fruits found in abundance in May 2023 on the Amalfi coast where several of the photos shown were taken. The loquat’s yellow skin suggests an apricot, its taste…

Not evidence-based, no trials and no good observational studies but who would deny that it works? #MedicineTrees #MedicinalPlants #Botanicals #NaturesMedicines #MedicineForTheSoul  #VeniceHeritageCity @MedicineTrees2023 #VeniceInBloom Photos – Venice in bloom Late April 2023 Author’s CEBP photos

#MedicineTrees #SuperFoods #MedicinalPlants #Botanicals #NaturesMedicines #Scurvy #VitaminC #Ascorbic #HeritageCity @MedicineTrees2023 Photos – Citrus plants on the roof of the extension linking the Doge’s Palace and St Mark’s Basilica, in the streets of Venice, and in a local flower shop.

This post was inspired by a thriving curry plant in my garden and the recent interesting contribution by Dr Cristina Isola on the wild poppy of Sardinia in the MedicineTrees Facebook Group page. Helichrysum italicum which grows wild in Sardinia and other parts of the Mediterranean region is widely used there as a medicinal herb,…

Everyone loses in wars. In the 1960s killing fields of the Vietnam War, both sides found a new enemy – drug resistant malaria, a disease that had plagued humanity from its birth. With malaria becoming resistant to all the drugs then available, including quinine and chloroquine, the Americans galvanised their best university and drug industry…

Wormwood, wormwood (Bitter, bitter), said Hamlet to himself.                                                 Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act III, scene ii Hamlet was inwardly unhappy with what he was hearing from the Player Queen, likening it to the taste of bitter wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Artemisia absinthium has a long history of use as a medicine. During a visit to the grand…

#MedicineTrees #GripeWater #MedicineTrees2023 #MedicinalPlants #Dill #Botanicals #NaturesMedicines #Herbal #Natural #Botanical #Hiccups #Malaria #StThomas’Hospital #HospitalPharmacy #WilliamWoodward1828_1912 #RobinHood @MedicineTrees2023 Malaria was an important killer in 18th century Europe including Britain. The disease was not eradicated there until the beginning of the 20th century. Between 1850-60 one in twenty of the patients hospitalised at St Thomas’s Hospital in…