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Country & Garden: Herbs No 38: Agrimony
The Independent - London; 11/25/2000; Miranda Seymour; 534 words
; ... herbs I could name many a one, Valerian, Agrimony and Lunary," announces the yeoman in ... ster's trade, to a transfixed audience. But agrimony, despite its mysterious and beautiful ... elegant spikes, as "church steeples", agrimony owes its odd name to its alleged ability ...
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INSULINOTROPIC PROPERTY OF SOME TROPICAL PLANT EXTRACTS ON INSULIN-SECRETING CELL LINES
Journal of Tropical Forest Science; 4/1/2007; Chee, B J; Pauliena, M B Siti; Rasadah, M A; Muhajir, H; 787 words
; ... agents (Bailey & Day 1989). Aqueous extracts of agrimony (Agrimony eupatoria), alfalfa (Medicago saliva), coriander ... action of the traditional and anti-diabetic plant, Agrimony eupatoria, Diabetic Medicine 13 (suppl. 3). GRAY ...
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Thousands of blooms will brighten beck
The Northern Echo; 11/13/2007; 77 words
; ... Beck Biodiversity Project.They planted a range of bulbs, which will bloom into Lady's Smock, Cowslip, Ragged Robin and Hemp Agrimony flowers.The Friends of Newham Grange Park also planted 2,000 mixed bulbs. The bulbs were supplied by Stockton Borough Council ...
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Y1K // Life in Engla-lond, circa 1000
Chicago Sun-Times; 1/31/1999; Henry Kisor; 787 words
; ... equivalent of a White House intern . . ." During the same era, Englishmen suffering erectile dysfunction made use of an infusion of agrimony, a yellow flower that, boiled in milk, was guaranteed to perk up the man who was "insufficiently virile" - "the Viagra of the ...
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WALES: I invited all who love wild flowers to walk along the banks of Gyffin stream to see it in all its voluptuous summer splendour.(News)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 8/2/2008; 440 words
; ... tidied by a strimmer. It was a riot of colour full of humming bees and insects, now it's tidy but silent; all the fluffy pink agrimony has gone as have the Shasta daisies and the bindweed that clung to the railings like a drunk to a lamppost but at least they' ...
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Beauty confessions.(Brief Article)
Cosmopolitan; 1/1/2002; 565 words
; ... eight weeks. Clarins Body Lift Advanced Cellulite Control, $49, uses three plant extracts--uncaria tomentosa, geranium, and agrimony--to inhibit the storage of fat in the treated area and help eliminate it from your system. Roc Retinol Actif Pur Anti-Cellulite ...
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Trends and beauty, BUSINESS TIMES
Business Times (Malaysia); 3/22/2001; Anthea De Lima; 565 words
; ... together. The revolutionary new product is a result of the discovery of three new plant extracts Uncaria Tomentosa, Geranium and Agrimony found to be exceptionally effective at reducing the storage of fat and increasing its release and elimination from the body ...
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Spinning and weaving.(Herbal thymes: plant lore & more)(Brief Article)
Country Living Gardener; 10/1/2003; Albert, Susan Wittig; 188 words
; ... boiling water produce colorful natural dyes. Blue: indigo, woad Pink/red: madder, St.-John's-wort, alkanet, bloodroot Yellow: agrimony, yarrow, goldenrod, Scotch broom Purple/lavender: blueberry, elderberry, grape, pokeweed Tan/brown: sumac, tea, walnut, onion ...
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(Trends and beauty)
New Straits Times; 3/22/2001; Anthea De Lima; 598 words
; ... together. The revolutionary new product is a result of the discovery of three new plant extracts - Uncaria Tomentosa, Geranium and Agrimony - found to be exceptionally effective at reducing the storage of fat and increasing its release and elimination from the body ...
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Viva!: The Viva! girls love.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England); 5/24/2005; 167 words
; ... inspired Rescue Remedy (pounds 5.65) can help. Crab apple can make you feel much more positive about the way you look, while agrimony is recommended if you're the sort of person who puts on a cheerful face to everyone else then goes home and raids the biscuit ...
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