I have recently been able to take pictures of more than 150 cacti/desert dwelling plants. This one was one of my favorites. Looking at the pictures later, I could see that it might look unreal to somebody. These pictures are absolutely undoctored and taken with a fairly simple camera. I have observed that some of [...]
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Disease-Free Plants
Plants don’t possess an immune system like we do. They don’t have antibodies or white blood cells that actively seek out and kill diseases that infect them. Plants fight their biological battles with chemistry. Plants manufacture chemicals that are toxic (called secondary metabolites) and move these chemicals throughout their systems in order to kill whatever [...]
Aloe Vera: A Mild Chemo-therapy for the Skin
Many people know that Aloe vera has some healing properties. From modern research, it looks like Aloe vera may actually possess an interesting healing property because of its internal biochemistry. From preliminary research, it appears to contain a small amount of topoisisomerase (TI) inhibitor in the gel that is inside its leaves. TI is an enzyme [...]
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