Ligusticum

Northern Atlantic species include Botiychium lunaria, Ophioglossum vulgatum, Gentianella campestris, Ligusticum scoticum and Sedum rosea with Arctic-Alpine montane species such as Silene acaulis and Saxifraga oppositifolia.

St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom 2008

Alaska's Kodiak bears dig up and swallow Ligusticum roots, or chew them and rub the exposed surfaces on their fur.

Take Two Roots; Call Me . . . 2008

According to Navajo legend, bears taught the tribe that a species of the Ligusticum plant can treat worms, stomachaches and bacterial infections; today, Navajos still use it.

Take Two Roots; Call Me . . . 2008

Ligusticum contains compounds that may fight ticks and fungi.

Take Two Roots; Call Me . . . 2008

Sure enough, he found that both wild and captive bears take to Ligusticum like neurotics to Valium.

Take Two Roots; Call Me . . . 2008

Other herbs and plants there are which retain the names of the countries from whence they were transported, as the Median apples from Media, where they first grew; Punic apples from Punicia, that is to say, Carthage; Ligusticum, which we call lovage, from

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Other herbs and plants there are which retain the names of the countries from whence they were transported, as the Median apples from Media, where they first grew; Punic apples from Punicia, that is to say, Carthage; Ligusticum, which we call lovage, from

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Ligusticum, which we call lovage, from Liguria, the coast of Genoa; Rhubarb from a flood in Barbary, as Ammianus attesteth, called Ru; Santonica from a region of that name; Fenugreek from Greece; Gastanes from a country so called; Persicaria from Persia; Sabine from a territory of that appellation; Staechas from the Staechad Islands; Spica Celtica from the land of the Celtic Gauls, and so throughout a great many other, which were tedious to enumerate.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

• A study on rabbits suffering from hemorrhagic shock examined the effects of various combinations of salvia root, tien chi root and chuan xiong rhizome (Ligusticum wallichii).

Find Me A Cure 2008