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  • Glycedim gotas maleato de pyranisamina ... : Seric-Vac ayuda a defender al organismo contra las infeciones intestinales : vacuna coli-entérica mixta con bacteriófagos ... / Laboratorios Maillot, S.A.
  • Cerelac, extracto de cereales con vitaminas y sales minerales : Seric-Vac ayuda a defender al organismo contra las infeciones intestinales : vacuna coli-entérica mixta con bacteriófagos ... / Laboratorios Maillot, S.A.
  • Cerelac, extracto de cereales con vitaminas y sales minerales : Seric-Vac ayuda a defender al organismo contra las infeciones intestinales : vacuna coli-entérica mixta con bacteriófagos ... / Laboratorios Maillot, S.A.
  • Cucurbita pepo L., Cucurbitaceae. Distribution: Mexico (extinct) This species is one of the oldest cultivated plants, first grown 11,000 years ago in Mexico, but extinct in the wild. Varieties are selectively bred for their taste, colour and shape. The seeds, ground to a powder are used to kill intestinal tape-worms (Lewis & Elvin-Lewis, 2003). This is a 200-year-old cultivar whose seed has been conserved by the Amish of Pennsylvania, USA. The rind is very thick, but the taste is delicious. This is a 200-year-old cultivar whose seed has been conserved by the Amish of Pennsylvania, USA. The rind is very thick, but the taste is delicious. Seeds approved for use in making herbal medicines in the UK (Herbal Medicine legislation 2013) Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Swollen intestines.
  • Adonis vernalis L. Ranunculaceae. Pheasant's eye, the golden flowered spring (or vernal) Adonis, is named in memory of Adonis, the Greek god of plants, who disappeared into the earth in the winter and reappeared in the spring. The flowers were said to have sprung from his blood when he was gored to death by a wild boar, but this plant must have been the blood red Adonis aestivalis, the summer Adonis. Distribution: Eurasia to Spain and Sweden. Gerard (1633) recommends it for renal stone and intestinal colic. Lewis & Elvin Lewis (2003) note it is poisonous, containing cardiac glycosides (adonitoxin, cymarin, K-strophanthin) and flavonoids. The UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)) bans its use for ingestion 'no dose permitted' but allow it to be prescribed by a herbal practitioner on a one-to-one consultation. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Small intestine mucosa
  • Nerves of intestines
  • Mouse small intestine
  • Schistosomiasis: large intestine
  • Schistosomiasis: large intestine
  • Schistosomiasis: large intestine
  • Mouse small intestine
  • villi of small intestine
  • The intestines. Engraving, 1686.
  • Bacteria from the intestine
  • Volvulus of the intestine
  • Shark intestine with tapeworm
  • Diseases of the intestine
  • Small intestine: tuberculous ileitis
  • Rudbeckia triloba L. Asteraceae Orange Cone flower. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution: North America. It is named for Olof Rudbeck, father (1630–1702) and son (1660–1740). Olof Rudbeck the Elder was professor of medicine at Uppsala University, and established a botanic garden there. He was the discoverer of the human lymphatic system. His son succeeded his father as professor of medicine, and one of his students was Carl Linnaeus (1707–88) who named the genus Rudbeckia after him and his father. It is a plant which is poisonous to cattle, sheep and pigs with no medicinal uses. Austin (1974) discusses R. hirta, also regarded as a toxic plant. It was used externally by the Cherokee to bathe sores and snakebites and made into a tea for treating diarrhoea. The Seminoles used it for headaches and fever and the Miccosukee for sunstroke and headache. The Cherokee and the Iroquois used it to treat intestinal worms Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Villus from the small intestine
  • Villus from the small intestine
  • Villi from the small intestine
  • Villus from the small intestine
  • Villi from the small intestine
  • Villi in the small intestine
  • Villi from the small intestine
  • Villi from the small intestine
  • Villi in the small intestine