FIG Leaf Cut

FIG LEAF, Botanical name: Ficus carica is used as Whole Natural Therapy for Alternative Healing in Naturopathic medicin, Herbal medicine and Homeopathy. Herbal remedies are a safe and effective alternative for treatment.

Botanical name:  Ficus carica

Common Names:    Anjeer, Common Fig

Habitat:     The Common Fig-tree provides the succulent fruit that in its fresh and dried state has been valued from the earliest days. It is indigenous to Persia, Asia Minor and Syria, but now is wild in most of the Mediterranean countries.
It is cultivated in most warm and temperate climates and has been celebrated from the earliest times for the beauty of its foliage and for its sweetness and good fruit there being frequent allusions to it in the Scriptures.
The Greeks are said to have received it from Caria in Asia Minor - hence the specific name. Under Hellenic culture it was improved and Attic figs became celebrated in the East. It was one of the principal articles of sustenance among the Greeks, being largely used by the Spartans at their public table; and athletes fed almost entirely on figs, considering that they increased their strength and swiftness.
To such an extent, indeed, were figs a part of the staple food of the people in ancient Greece that there was a law forbidding the exportation of the best fruit from their trees.

Plant Description:    Ficus Carica is a bush or small tree, rarely more than 18 to 20 feet high, with broad, rough, deciduous, deeply-lobed leaves in the cultivated varieties, though in wild forms the leaves are often almost entire.
Considered botanically, the Fig, as we eat it, is a very remarkable form of fruit. It is actually neither fruit nor flower, though partaking of both, being really a hollow, fleshy receptacle, enclosing a multitude of flowers, which never see the light, yet come to full perfection and ripen their seeds - a contrary method from the strawberry, in which the minute pistils are scattered over the exterior of the enlarged succulent receptacle.
In the Fig, the inflorescence, or position of the flowers is concealed within the body of the fruit. The Fig stands alone in this peculiar arrangement of its flowers.
The edge of the pear-shaped receptacle curves inwards, so as to form a nearlyclosed cavity, bearing the numerous fertile and sterile flowers mingled on its surface, the male flowers mostly in the upper part of the cavity and generally few in number.
As it ripens, the receptacle enlarges greatly and the numerous one-seeded fruits become embedded in it. The fruit of the wild kind never attains the succulence of the cultivated kinds.
The Figs are borne in the axils of the leaves, singly.

Plant Part/s Used Traditionally:    Leaf, Fruit.

Plant Part/s We are Selling in this Listing:  LEAF Cut
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Packaging:  Paper envelope PAP 22 / BS EN 26590-1 for nutritional purposes. Thus, the herbs are kept in the best possible way - no contact with light and moisture, with the ability to breathe through the paper.

Country of Origin:  BULGARIA

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