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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: koraks] 1
#18864130 - 09/19/13 05:48 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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koraks said: He just added emphasis on the bit that was already there. I certainly read it the first time round, but you weren't the first or the only one to miss it.
Correct .
There's been some interesting suggestions in this thread.. it's quite surprising how many plants (or at least plant based products) are used every day in medicine and general society with little consideration to where it comes from.. another one that springs to mind is:
The Willow Tree (salix genus)

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The leaves and bark of the willow tree have been mentioned in ancient texts from Assyria, Sumer and Egypt[13] as a remedy for aches and fever,[14] and the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about its medicinal properties in the fifth century BC. Native Americans across the Americas relied on it as a staple of their medical treatments. It temporarily relieves headache, stomachache, and other body pain. Salicin is metabolized into salicylic acid in the human body, and is a precursor of aspirin.
Keep 'em coming .
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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: flickedbic]
#18864179 - 09/19/13 05:56 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Aspen for aspirin and any number of pine species for DMSO.
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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: r00tuuu123] 1
#18864195 - 09/19/13 05:58 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Cotton, we'd be so fucked without cotton.
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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: flickedbic]
#18864239 - 09/19/13 06:05 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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flickedbic said: Spirulina - complete plant protein
Chlorella.
Those are both bacteria.
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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: s240779]
#18864255 - 09/19/13 06:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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I thought they were algae-related. Source?
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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: flickedbic]
#18864262 - 09/19/13 06:10 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Algae is still not a plant, its a single celled organism, ya nub.
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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: flickedbic]
#18864265 - 09/19/13 06:10 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Right.
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akira_akuma
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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
#18864278 - 09/19/13 06:12 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Bodhi of Ankou said: Algae is still not a plant, its a single celled organism, ya nub.
Nature brah, do you speak it?!

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Re: Most significant plants to humanity [Re: akira_akuma] 1
#18864352 - 09/19/13 06:25 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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How would humanity have survived had Hops not been around to preserve our beer on trips to India!?

More seriously, Has anyone mentioned the Tea tree? Its a great antibacterial/antiseptic and antifungal.
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