A welfare plant is a plant, which can be used because of their content of active substances for welfare purposes and/or for the Linderung by diseases.

Welfare plant is thereby a relative term, which is used only after the use regardless of the botanischen affiliation or the stature form. Each plant, for which an appropriate application admits is, can be called welfare plant. Is sometimes said by connoisseurs that jedde plant is a welfare plant, one must know only for what.

Welfare plants are drug plants. The distinction to poison plants lies on the one hand in the produced drug, on the other hand in the applizierten dose.

Already Dioskurides described in the 1. Century numerous welfare plants and their applications. The physician and Botaniker Abu Muhammad Ibn aluminium-Baitar described around 1230 in "„the Kitab aluminium-gami "“over 1400 vegetable cures and their prescriptions. Leonhard fox published 1543 with "„the new "“one of the most important herb books in German language, which illustrates numerous medicinal plants and describes their effect. To the Wegbereitern also the books Swiss of the herb minister Johann belong to the modern Phytotherapie.

Today welfare plants are used particularly in Germany in the context of the Phytotherapie, in some European countries as well as the USA play them by arising chemically synthesized and defined active substances only a small role. On the other hand the pharmaceutical industry and the pharmacology arrived at the realization that the whole of the secondary plant materials represents an almost inexhaustible reservoir for new, high-potent medicines. The straight hardly investigated and listed Flora of the tropical jungles and the plants used in the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) do not save in this regard a Potenzial which can be neglected.

Welfare plants are also wildly increasing collected or cultivated in the back garden, in order to be available as house means preventing or with diseases. The most common use form probably is the welfare dte.

Examples of today still usual welfare plants

One finds a more complete enumerating of the welfare plants under list of the welfare plants and/or useful plants.

• Horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
• Anise (Pimpinella anisi)
• Arnica (arnica montana)
• Birke (Betula spp.)
• Brennnessel (Urticaceae)
• Beifuss (Artemisia vulgaris)
• Cannabis (Cannabis spp.)
• Elder (Sambucus spp.)
• Kerbel (Anthriscus cerefolium)
• Kapuzinerkresse (Tropaeolum majus)
• Chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla)
• Lavendel (Lavendula angustifolia)
• Lime trees (Botanik) (Tilia)
• Dandelion (Taraxacum)
• Peppermint (Mentha piperita)
• Ringelblume (Calendula Officinalis)
• Salbei (Salvia officinalis)
• Sun hat (Echinacea spp.)
• Thymian (thymus vulgaris)
• Zitronenmelisse (Melissa officinalis)

See also

• Alternative medicine
• Welfare plant of the yearly
• Phytotherapie
• TCM

Reference works

• Hans Heinrich Rhyner, Birgit Frohn: Welfare plants in the Ayurveda. RK publishing house, 2006, ISBN 3-03800-279-8

Related links

• Poison plants in pharmacy and as raw material suppliers
• Committee research nature medicine registered association scientific investigations to welfare plants
• Information to contents materials and effect of welfare plants

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