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Functional Foods: Enhanced for Health
Should you buy into super foods — products with added vitamins, herbs and extracts? Here’s what you need to know : CLICK & SEE The link between diet and health continues to grow, and researchers...
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Euphorbia Hirta
Botanical Name: Euphorbia Hirta Family: Euphorbiaceae Genus: Euphorbia Species:E. hirta Kingdom:Plantae Order:Malpighiales Synonym: Euphorbia pilulifera. Common Names: Cats hair, asthma weed,...
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Pseudogout
Definition: Pseudogout is a form of arthritis that occurs when a particular type of calcium crystal accumulates in the joints. As more of these crystals are deposited in the affected joint, they can...
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Ancient Chinese Salad Plant Yields Cancer-Killing Compound
Image via Wikipedia Researchers have used a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently...
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Some Health Quaries & Answers
Paranoid uncle: Q: My uncle has started to suspect that everyone is against him. It started with his job where he felt he was being victimised. He then decided that the rest of his family (wife and...
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Garlic Chives (Alum Tuberosum)
Botanical Name: Allium tuberosum Family: Alliaceae Kingdom: Plantae Order: Asparagales Genus: Allium Species: A. tuberosum, A. ramosum Common Name: Garlic Chives Other Common Names: Chinese Chive,...
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Coccinia cordifolia(Bengali :Kundri)
Botanical Name: Coccinia cordifolia Family: Cucurbitaceae Genus: Coccinia Species: C. grandis Kingdom: Plantae Order: Cucurbitales Synonyms: Coccinia grandis, Cephalandra indica and Coccinia indica...
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Agar-Agar
Botanical Name: Gelidium amansii Family: Gelidiaceae Genus: Gelidium Species: G. amansii Kingdom: Archaeplastida Phylum: Rhodophyta Class: Florideophyceae Order: Gelidiales...
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Echium vulgare
Botanical Name: Echium vulgare Family: Boraginaceae Genus: Echium Species: E. vulgare Kingdom: Plantae Order: Boraginales Synonym: Blueweed. Common Names : Viper’s Bugloss or Blueweed, Common viper’s...
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Zanthoxylum bungeanum
Botanical Name : Zanthoxylum bungeanum Family: Rutaceae Subfamily: Rutoideae Genus: Zanthoxylum Species: Zanthoxylum bungeanum Common Names: Szechuan Peppercorn Habitat:Zanthoxylum bungeanum is native...
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