Alleanza Verde – Green Alliance
Portale dedicato all'Alleanza tra il Popolo degli Uomini e il Popolo verde – A portal dedicated to the Alliance between the Race of Man and the Green People
Alleanza Verde – Green Alliance
Portale dedicato all'Alleanza tra il Popolo degli Uomini e il Popolo verde – A portal dedicated to the Alliance between the Race of Man and the Green People
Order: Apiales (APG IV, Cronquist)Family: Apiaceae Lindl. With approximately 250 species distributed in Eurasia, North Africa, North and South America, and Australia (with the center of diversity in South America), Eryngium L. is the largest and arguably the most taxonomically complex genus of the family Apiaceae. Like many other members of the celery or carrot family, Eryngium has been …
The Planet Venus The planet Venus is the second planet nearest to the Sun. Also due to its reflecting ability, it reflects the Sun’s light so intensely that it appears the brightest natural object in Earth’s night sky after the Moon. Fig. 1: The phases of Venus and evolution of its apparent diameter [Kalyvas] Moving around the Sun and …
Order: Rosales (APG), Urticales (Cronquist)Family: Urticaceae Juss.
The commercial cleansers have the huge advantage of being ready to use: you only need to buy and use them! Unfortunately, though, such products are usually made (at least largely) with synthetic chemical substances, which ensure some advantages (like a low production cost, a perfect control upon features like texture, playing time, white film formation or prevention, color, persistence, etc.) …
Today I’ve tried to make saffron infused oil for the very first time. Coming mostly from the Indian tradition, this precious (both because it is made with the most expensive spice and because of its qualities) oil may be used both in the kitchen and for our personal care.
St. John’s day, this year a flower day (the Moon is in Aquarius): perfect for the harvesting of the flowering tops of the plants that are in bloom now. In particular, the majestic and strongly-scented Clary Sage and the King of these days, St. John’s wort. Clary Sage was reputed able to strengthen both the physical and the “inner” vision, …
Cold in the 4.th degree and moderately moist, the field poppy is cooling, facilitates sleeping, softens the stools, relieves coughing, is choleretic, stimulates the expulsion of Yellow Bile and of any excess of liver heat, possibly compensating overheated Yellow Bile [Giannelli]. Sources [Giannelli] Luigi Giannelli, “Medicina Tradizionale Mediterranea”, Ed. Tecniche Nuove
Botanical name: Nigella damascena L. Common names: Love-in-a-Mist, ragged lady, devil in a bush; ancient: melanthion (Greek), gith. Each time I meet this plant, my gaze is rapt by its beauty and the complexity of its figure. Even if it’s relatively common in the Mediterranean area, in practice it is met not so often. It usually appears in a group: …
Today, we are going to speak about the sweet taste: little used in western herbalism and much appreciated within the Eastern traditions, sweet drugs are comforting, tonifying and nutritious.
One of the less pleasant of all tastes, but nevertheless so important form the therapeutical point of view: bitter. Let’s have a look at the nature of this taste and of its secondary tastes: acrid-bitter and bitter due to cyanogenetic glycosides.