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Vol. 26 No. 2 (2016)

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Healing properties and the use of some species of woody plants in phytotherapy. Shrubs in the northern hemisphere

Submitted: May 4, 2019
Published: 2016-06-05

Abstract

Herbal raw materials and medicines have recently become a more and more important group of products used in the dietetic and therapeutic purposes. The source of herbal raw materials are both crops grown on herbal plantations and plants growing in natural sites. The effect of wild medicinal plants traditionally used for pro-health purposes is confirmed by scientifically; new possibilities of their use are discovered. The work is a review of the latest research on the phytotherapeutic potential of selected species of the genera Cornus, Crataegus, Rhamnus and Sambucus.

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