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 …
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.
Let’s have a look at a taste so peculiar, because of its important and, at least apparently, conflicting functions: indeed, it can soften and wet, or dry: the salty (or saline) taste.
Today we deal with the aromatic taste, that, as we will see, is related someway to the pungent taste, so much that it can almost be considered a secondary taste.
Taste is traditionally linked to herbal energetics, since according to all the principal herbal traditions the action exerted by each herb is strongly connected to its taste (or tastes). The tastes formally recognized as such by modern science are: sweet, salty, bitter, acid and, since not long, also umami (which we can think of as the “taste of proteins”) and …
In order to understand the actions of herbs according to the traditional systems of medicine, we must first master the philosophies and concepts that underlay such traditions. Contemporary medicine is based on a mainly analytical approach and is founded on biochemistry and on the modern concepts of anatomy, physiology and pathology; traditional medicines, instead, were based upon models more or …
