Botanical Name:Iris versicolor Family:Iridaceae Common Names:Orris Root, Blue Lily, Iris, Florentine Orris, White Flag Root, Flag Lily, Liver Lily, Poison Flag, Poison Lily, Snake Lily, Water Flag, Wild Iris, Yellow Flag, Yellow Iris, Dragon Flower, Myrtle Flower, Fliggers, Flaggon, Sheggs, Segg, Daggers, Jacob’s Sword, Gladyne, Fleur-de-lis Parts Used: Rhizome & Root Habitat:Native to North America, [...]
Image via Wikipedia Introduction:Your liver helps fight infections and cleans your blood. It also helps digest food and stores energy for when you need it. You cannot live without a liver that works. If your liver fails, your doctor may put you on a waiting list for a liver transplant. Doctors do liver transplants when [...]
Botanical Name: Bidens tripartita. Family: Asteraceae (formerly Compositae) Common Names:Sticktights, Water Agrimony, Beggar’s Ticks, Tickseed, Spanish Needles Spanish: Aceitilla, Té de Coral, Té de Milpa Nahuatl: Acocohxihuitl Maya: Chichik-kul or K’an-mul Other Names: Three-lobe Beggarticks, Three-part Beggarticks, Leafy-bracted Beggarticks, Trifid Bur-marigold, Bidens tripartita,Bastard , Hemp and Bastard Agrimony. Genus: Bidens. Parts Used: Aerial parts Habitat:The [...]
Definition : A pancreas transplant is surgery to implant a healthy pancreas from a donor into a patient with diabetes. Pancreas transplants give the patient a chance to become independent of insulin injections. A pancreas transplant is an organ transplant that involves implanting a healthy pancreas (one that can produce insulin) into a person who [...]
Definition: Gynecomastia, or gynaecomastiais the development of abnormally large mammary glands in males resulting in breast enlargement, which can sometimes cause secretion of milk. The term comes from the Greek gyne (stem gynaik-) meaning “woman” and masto meaning “breast”. The condition can occur physiologically in neonates (due to female hormones from the mother; this is [...]
Image via Wikipedia People who decide to donate a kidney to their near and dear ones need not fear any long term implications as donation has no negative impact on donor’s general health, say experts. Donors can lead a perfectly normal life and, on the contrary, are benefitted psychologically, having the satisfaction of saving a [...]
Botanical Name: Ajuga chamaepitys (SCHREB.) Family: N.O. Lahiatae Common Names:Ajuga reptans (Bugle, Bugula, Middle Comfrey, Middle Confound, Sticklewort, Carpenter’s Herb) ,Ajuga chamaepitys (Ground Pine, Yellow Bugle) Synonym: European Ground Pine. Habitat: It is a native of many parts of Europe, the Levant and North Africa, is common in sandy and chalky fields in Kent, Surrey [...]
Image via Wikipedia Alternative Names:Renal transplant; Transplant – kidney Definition: A kidney transplant is surgery to place a healthy kidney into a person with kidney failure. Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney in a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as [...]
The number of men having breast reduction operations in the UK is rising dramatically, but is this really the result of the media spotlighting the physical flaws of male celebrities? ……………………. This is an era when glossy magazines and tabloids delight in the most minor flaw of the female celebrity. The actress with bags under [...]
Botanical Name:Astragalus membranaceus Family:Leguminosae (pea family) Common Names:Tragacanth, Gum Dragon, Milk Vetch, Canada Milk Vetch, Membranous Milk Vetch, Slender Milk Vetch, Standing Milk Vetch, Astragali, Huang Qi (Chinese), Beg Kei, Bei Qi, Hwanggi. Part Used : Root. Other Names : Milk-vetch root, huang qi Different Species:A. membranaceus ,A. gummifer ,A. gracilis ,A. adsurgens var. robustior [...]
