Its leaves are eaten as a vegetable and it is also an important herb in the traditional medicine systems of those places.

You can make a chile tincture (medicine), especially from the hottest varieties, by drying the peppers and grounding into a powder.

Medication made from this alkaloid is used to treat Hodgkin’s lymphoma, an immune system cancer.

The Hindu name for holy basil, Tulsi, means “the incomparable one.”

Every part of the plant is poisonous, especially the tuberous rhizomes.

The medicinal functions of Rosaceae are partly attributed to their abundance of phenolics compound.

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