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Homeland – North America; in the USSR – alien (in the Caucasus). Cultivated in the Mediterranean, Iran, USA. Herbaceous perennial with a multi-headed rhizome and a thick taproot. The stems are thick, branched, reddish-green, smooth, up to 2-3 m high. The leaves are alternate, short-petiolate, ovate-elliptical, sharp (similar to belladonna leaves, with which the plant is often confused). The […]

Homeland – North America; in the USSR – alien (in the Caucasus). Cultivated in the Mediterranean, Iran, USA. Herbaceous perennial with a multi-headed rhizome and a thick taproot. The stems are thick, branched, reddish-green, smooth, up to 2-3 m high. The leaves are alternate, short-petiolate, ovate-elliptical, sharp (similar to belladonna leaves, with which the plant is often confused). The

Distribution – Mediterranean from Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine to the Canary Islands; cultivated. Non-leafing shrub or small tree up to 5 m tall. The alternate leaves are 3-5-unpaired and pair-pinnate, lobules are lanceolate. Small greenish flowers are collected in brushes. From cultivated broad-leaved male trees (P. lentiscus L. var. Chia DC), resin Mastix is ​​extracted – a mastic,

Pharmacy name: resin from the bark of a tree – Mastix. Botanical description. Evergreen tree up to 5 m in height, with resinous bark, leathery leaves and small red flowers collected in a panicle or brush. It grows in the Mediterranean, in the Canary Islands. Active ingredients: alcohol-soluble and alcohol-insoluble resinous substances, essential oil, bitterness. Application. Formerly processed to make

In the conditions of the South Caucasus, a deciduous tree with a rounded or umbrella crown, 15-20 m high. The trunk is straight, with a smooth grayish bark. The leaves are large, up to 30 cm long, wide, with 3-5 palmate-pointed lobes, heart-shaped at the base, slightly pubescent on the underside. The flowers are dioecious, greenish-yellow, small,

F. benjamina L., F. cunia Bach-Ham., F. elastica Roxb., F. infectoria Roxb., F. ramphii Bh, F. religiosa L.   Grow in Tropical Asia. Cultivated, some as rubber plants (for example, F. elastica Roxb., F. vogelii Mig., etc.), but almost all for the cultivation of laconos (Tachardia or Coccus lacca Kerr), mainly in India and Southeast Asia. For

Physochlaina praealta (Don.) Miers – high physochlaina – grows in Southeast Asia, the Himalayas; cultivated in India. Ph. physaloides (L.) G. Don. – bleached henbane – grows in East Asia, Mongolia, China, Japan, and the Far East. Both species are perennial herbaceous plants used for the industrial production of atropine. Henbane is popular in Tibetan medicine. The plant contains

It grows wild in the tropical forests of West Africa, especially within the Gulf of Guinea. It was first found on the Calabar coast. Curly liana up to 15 m long with complex trifoliate alternate leaves 7-15 cm long, ovoid, with a long sharp apex. The flowers are bright red in drooping racemes up to 15 cm

It grows wild in the tropical forests of West Africa, especially within the Gulf of Guinea. It was first found on the Calabar coast. Curly liana up to 15 m long with complex trifoliate alternate leaves 7-15 cm long, ovoid, with a long sharp apex. The flowers are bright red in drooping racemes up to 15 cm

Legumes – Fabaceae (Leguminosae). Pharmacy name: Calabar beans – Calabar semen (formerly: Semen Calabar). Botanical description. Climbing shrub with large ternate leaves and elongated stipules. Red or purple moth flowers are collected in a brush. It grows in the tropics of West Africa, India and Brazil. Active ingredients: alkaloids (including phytostigmine-eserine), resins, protein substances, essential oil and others. Application. As a