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Depending on the types of herbs involved, tinctures can include various parts of the plant. Some of the most common parts in herbal tinctures include: dried leaves bark berries roots fresh leaves ...

Flora is integral to traditional and modern Kyoto life. Japan's oldest public botanical garden which celebrates its centennial and a medicinal plant garden preserve rare plants for posterity.

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LANZHOU, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese research team has uncovered a pivotal regulatory role played by climatic factors in the relationship between shrub encroachment and herbal plant diseases.