Medicinal plants

Thyme - useful properties and contraindications
Blooming thyme

The beneficial properties of thyme were already known to the ancient Slavs, Greeks and Romans. It was believed that this herb can return a person to health, strength, vigor and even life itself. Modern doctors and traditional healers use it for a variety of purposes. It is also important that there are very few contraindications to treatment with such a herbal remedy.

Calendula - medicinal properties and contraindications
Blooming calendula

Not everyone knows about the healing properties of this unpretentious and unpretentious distant relative of chrysanthemums and asters, although for a long time she helped healers and doctors to rid people of many ailments. In most gardens, calendula grows as an ornamental plant, although it has a number of medicinal properties. Its bright yellow and orange flowers delight the eye all summer long and until frost in autumn. If your site also has this unpretentious plant, then it would be useful to get acquainted with the information about its benefits and contraindications.

Chokeberry: medicinal properties and contraindications to the use of chokeberry
chokeberry

In many gardens and summer cottages, you can find this unpretentious, light-loving, frost-resistant plant. Although it has a relationship with the classic rowan, it is very distant. It is more correct to call it black chokeberry. It is important to know about the medicinal properties of its berries and leaves, their correct collection, storage and use for health improvement, as well as contraindications for all those who decide to cultivate it on the site.

Bitter wormwood: medicinal properties and contraindications for use
bitter glade

The numerous genus of this herb, which grows throughout the earth, has more than 480 species according to The Plant List. Bitter wormwood is one of them. It has long been used by folk and scientific medicine. Local names: real, field or white wormwood, emshan, widow's grass. Today we will tell you more about the medicinal properties and contraindications to the use of this plant.

Varieties and names of aloe: photo of species of agave
What types of aloe are there

Aloe is an unpretentious plant that accumulates moisture in its fleshy leaves, thanks to which the flower is able to survive even in conditions of prolonged drought.

There are more than 300 species of aloe in the world, growing both in the wild and at home. The homeland of the flower is the Arabian Peninsula, South America, Africa, Madagascar. The height of individual representatives of this plant reaches as much as 15 meters!

What types of aloe are there