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    The document lists and describes several medicinal plants and their uses, including asparagus fern for pulmonary infections, avocado for digestive and other issues, and cabbage for anticancer and wound healing properties. It also mentions bamboo having emollient and diuretic qualities. Mahogany is described as used for conditions like hypertension, amoebiasis, and malaria. The document further categorizes plants that can live on air, water, or in desert environments, providing examples for each category. It concludes by naming several common flowering plant species.

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    The document lists and describes several medicinal plants and their uses, including asparagus fern for pulmonary infections, avocado for digestive and other issues, and cabbage for anticancer and wound healing properties. It also mentions bamboo having emollient and diuretic qualities. Mahogany is described as used for conditions like hypertension, amoebiasis, and malaria. The document further categorizes plants that can live on air, water, or in desert environments, providing examples for each category. It concludes by naming several common flowering plant species.

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    The document lists and describes several medicinal plants and their uses, including asparagus fern for pulmonary infections, avocado for digestive and other issues, and cabbage for anticancer and wound healing properties. It also mentions bamboo having emollient and diuretic qualities. Mahogany is described as used for conditions like hypertension, amoebiasis, and malaria. The document further categorizes plants that can live on air, water, or in desert environments, providing examples for each category. It concludes by naming several common flowering plant species.

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    5 MEDICINAL PLANTS

    Asparagus fern
    Used for pulmonary infections; decoction of roots used as a diuretic and malaria.

    Avocado
    Uses: Digestive, emmenagogue, antibacterial, antioxidant, antifungal, pectoral, stomachic, anthelmintic, antiperiodic, antidiarrheal.

    Cabbage
    Uses: Anticancer, Wound healing, Antifungal and Antioxidant

    Bamboo
    Emollient, diuretic and diaphoretic, emmenagogue, astringent. Leaves are considered stimulant, aromatic, tonic, emmenagogue, anthelmintic and aphrodiasiac. The bark is astringent and used in hemorrhoids, nausea and vomiting.

    Mahogany
    Used for hypertension, amoebiasis, chest pains, parasitism, cancer and Anti-Ulcer. Bark extracts used as astringent for wounds. Used for malaria, anemia, diarrhea, fever and dysentery.

    PLANTS THAT LIVES ON AIR

    Red flat epiphyte

    Bromeliad

    Tillandsia

    PLANTS THAT LIVES ON WATER


    Water Lily

    Nymphaea alba

    Lotus

    PLANTS THAT LIVES ON DESERT


    Cactus

    Ocotillo

    Brittle Bush

    Kinds of Flowering Plants


    Carnation

    Marigolds

    Jasmine

    Petunias

    Zinnias

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