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NATURE TALK Series
The Healing
Power Of
LANTANA CAMARA
antana Camara also choice ensures that your Anselm Adodo
known as ‘Wild sage’ landscape aligns with your Anselm Adodo is the Director of
Lor ‘Red sage,’ is a gardening aspirations. Africa Centre for Integral Research
remarkably diverse plant Lantana leaves and extracts and Development, Nigeria and founder
with a wide array of cultivars have found a place in of Arica’s foremost herbal research
and varieties available in traditional medicine as Institute, the Pax Herbal Clinic and
the world of horticulture. a digestion aid, adept at Research Laboratories (Paxherbals).
These variations encompass a soothing stomachaches
spectrum of features, including and reducing bloating and
flower colour, size, growth flatulence. Additionally,
habits, and more. When these herbal remedies have handy resource for common
considering which Lantana historically served as an emergencies, including wound
variety to introduce to your external application for wound dressing.
garden, think about factors healing, warding off infections
such as your local climate, and accelerating the healing But Lantana’s potential extends
garden dimensions, and your process. Keeping Lantana in beyond these traditional uses.
preferred colour palette. This your garden can serve as a Scientific research has cast
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