Indigenous herb

No matter how many indigenous herbs could be collected, this cmde drug supply needed to be made into medicine, and thus the accumulation of plant stores did not remove the necessity for an infrastructure of manufacture. Medicinal substances, whether botanical or chemical, usually needed some processing from their natural state. Without anything near the industrial capacity of Tilden and Company, Rosengarten and Sons, Powers and Weightman, Edward R. 

Sharma VN, Barar FSK, Khanna NK, Mahawar MM Some i iarmacolc ical actions of convolvulus pluricauUs chois an Indian indigenous herb. Indian J Med Res ( 965) 53,871-6. 

Kar A, Choudhary BK, Bandhopadhyay NG. (1999) Preliminary studies on the inorganic constituents of some indigenous hypoglycaemic herbs on oral glucose tolerance test J Ethnopharm 64 179-184. 

Regions of origin The herb is indigenous to Europe, Central Asia, India and North Africa. 

Amongst the Mazatecs, Salvia divinorum (Diviner s sage) is known under such names as ska Maria Pastora and Hierba Maria, which translate as "the herb of Mary" or "leaves of Mary the Shepherdess". In a recent paper, Jonathan Ott has noted that the Mazatecs lack an indigenous name for Salvia divinorum,... 

Wetherilt, H. and Pala, M. (1 994) Herbs and spices indigenous to Turkey. In Charalambous, C. (ed.) Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, pp. 292-294. 

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