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No. 047: Parasect
What was once a living insect has now been completely overtaken by the tochukaso mushroom, which uses the bug's body for transportation and for feeding. The toxic spores it spreads can be harvested and used for medicinal purposes.
Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a toddler to feed. So she turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants https://t.co/QmWdejsYL1 #InternationalWomensDay
Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a toddler to feed. So she turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants https://t.co/LaTPLKA2kh #InternationalWomensDay
Tobacco - picietl ('little perfume') in #Nahuatl - was not just smoked by #Mesoamericans, it was used medicinally: ground up to treat diarrhoea, poisonous snake/spider bites, gout, headache, and as a rubdown to relieve fatigue. Image from Florentine Codex.
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Side effects/withdrawal from drugs (medicinal or otherwise) are an important cause of #headache. Oddly, this includes chronic use of painkillers, which may have been started to treat recurring headaches! From my next #ddxillustrated, coming on the first Mon of March! #medtwitter
Spectral poison frogs live in the wetlands of Ecuador. The males are aggressive during mating season. Humans collect them for medicinal purposes.
'The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up' by Robert Burton
Hisako Arato, voiced by Saori Onishi, is a right-hand woman of Erina.
She has vast knowledge in Chinese medicinal food and doesn’t hesitate for the sake of cooking!
She used to follow Erina from 3 steps behind but now she tries to walk next to her!
#shokugeki_anime https://t.co/NGGh2ypZJp
Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a small child to feed at home. What does she do? She turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants https://t.co/QmWdejsYL1
Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a small child to feed at home. What does she do? She turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants https://t.co/LaTPLKA2kh
A Curious Herbal: Gorgeous Illustrations from Elizabeth Blackwell's 18th-Century Encyclopedia of Medicinal Botany https://t.co/y9RV5Pk8eZ via @brainpicker < #histmed
Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a small child to feed. What does she do? She turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants. Dive in: https://t.co/vpV2EqjbWY
Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a small child to feed at home. What does she do? She turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants: https://t.co/QmWdejbnmr
Elizabeth Blackwell is 29. The year is 1736. Her husband is in debtor’s prison and she has a small child to feed at home. What does she do? She turns desperation into inspiration, learning botany and painting an exquisite encyclopedia of medicinal plants https://t.co/LaTPLKA2kh
A Curious Herbal – gorgeous illustrations from Elizabeth Blackwell's 18th-century encyclopedia of medicinal botany https://t.co/QmWdejsYL1
Aloe vera for #BotanicMonday! This succulent has long been used medicinally, for instance in ointments for minor burns and sunburns. #SciArt by Mary Ann Burnett from "Plantæ utiliores" ([1839]1842-1850), in #BHLib via @FieldMuseum ➡️ https://t.co/0IwTo6H3Kd
#HerNaturalHistory
@Viseleaux “Yep. The Kaka hot springs. They’re very good for healing wounds and relaxation. It’s magical and medicinal properties are remarkable.”
Despite the shared common name true ginger (Zingiber officinale) is in the Zingiberaceae (ginger family). Members of the Aristolochiaceae have been used historically for medicinal purposes but we know now that they contain aristolochic acids, which are carcinogenic & nephrotoxic.