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Natures Term’s Retail & Wholesale a variety of Natural products & foodstuff that will help all users achieve health and wellbeing for themselves and family. On Natures Terms.
Bissy
.Bissy (cola nut) is the fruit of the cola tree, which is native to the tropical rainforests of Africa. It has typically been kept in many Jamaican homes where it is used as an antidote against poison, usually food poisoning, and allergies. The bissy powder and leaf can also be put onto cuts to promote quicker healing. Bissy is related to cocoa and is a native plant of West Africa that was introduced to Jamaica during the 18th century. In Africa, the nut is chewed to promote digestion and is considered to be a tonic, a stimulant, and is also used for treating dysentery. Bissy is used as a flavouring agent and the source of caffeine in the well-known Coca-Cola soda. The nut contains about 2.0 per cent to 3.5 per cent caffeine, which can act as a stimulant.
Annatto Seeds
Annatto is a rich source of tocotrienols, compounds similar in structure and function to the lipid-soluble antioxidant, vitamin E. The tocotrienols from annatto are the subject of current nutritional and medical research since these compounds are thought to have antiangiogenic effects. The annatto seed, unlike palm oil or rice bran, does not contain tocopherols, so it is a natural source of tocotrienol compounds with antioxidant activity in vitro.
Ashwagandha Root Powder Organic
Ashwagandha is an evergreen shrub that grows in India, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. Its roots and orange-red fruit have been used for hundreds of years for medicinal purposes. The herb is also called Indian ginseng or winter cherry. The name ashwagandha describes the smell of its root (like a horse). By definition, ashwa means horse.
Jamaican Dandelion Seeds
The Jamaican Dandelion Scientific Name: (Cassia occidentalis – Caesalpiniaceae) Other Names use for this Jamaican herb: Wild Coffee, Fedogoso, Piss-a-bed, Negro Coffee, Café Batard, Herbe Puante and Kasundi Parts of the herb Dandelion (Cassia Occidentailis), that can be used are the Leaves, Root and the Seeds.
Shea Butter
Shea butter is an off-white or ivory-colored fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa). Shea butter is a triglyceride (fat) derived mainly from stearic acid and oleic acid. It is widely used in cosmetics as a moisturizer, salve or lotion. Shea butter is edible and is used in food preparation in Africa. Occasionally, the chocolate industry uses shea butter mixed with other oils as a substitute for cocoa butter, although the taste is noticeably different.
Sour Sop Leaf
Soursop is the fruit of Annona muricata, a broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree native to Mexico, Cuba, Central America, the Caribbean islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, and northern South America, primarily Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela. Soursop is also produced in all tropical parts of Africa, especially in Eastern Nigeria, The Plateau and The Democratic Republic of Congo, Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Sarsaparilla
Sarsaparilla is the common name for Smilax ornata (formally smilax regelii), which has been used medicinally to treat everything from chronic pain to toe fungus. Other common names include sarsaparilla, Honduran sarsaparilla, and Jamaican sarsaparilla.
Sarsaparilla Root Powder
A sarsaparilla root typically measures between 6 – 8 feet in length. It’s tuberous in shape and has no particular smell or taste. It has been used medicinally for hundreds of years by the people native to Central and South America who found that it relieved rheumatism, general physical weakness, sexual impotence, headaches, colds, joint pain and skin problems
Cerasee
Cerasee, scientifically known as “Momordica charantia,” is a very bitter herb, but like every other bitter herb, it purifies the blood and the body. It is a native to Africa and the Middle East and can today be found in almost every parts of the world. The yellow fruit with the red seeds, know as bitter melon, can be eaten as well as they can be cooked, which is popularly used in Chinese dishes. The leaves and fruit were used to make soups and stews, it is the most popularly used herb in Jamaica, and has proven to work for whatever it is used for.
Basil Leaves Organic
Basil is an annual, or sometimes perennial, herb used for its leaves. It is a tender plant, and is used in cuisines worldwide. Depending on the species and cultivar, the leaves may taste somewhat like anise, with a strong, pungent, often sweet smell. here are many varieties of basil, as well as several related species or hybrids also called basil.
Activated Charcoal Organic
Activated charcoal is a fine, odorless, black powder often used in emergency rooms to treat overdoses. Its toxin-absorbing properties have a wide range of medicinal and cosmetic uses, though none are scientifically proven.
Activated carbon is used to treat poisonings and overdoses following oral ingestion. Tablets or capsules of activated carbon are used in many countries as an over-the-counter drug to treat diarrhea, indigestion, and flatulence.
Guinea Hen Weed Leaf
GUINEA HEN weed, known to South Americans as anamu, is a herb that is indigenous to the Amazon rainforest and the tropical areas of the Caribbean, Central and South America and Africa. Its botanical name is Petiveria alliacea. In Jamaica, it has several names – guinea hen weed, guinea hen leaf, garlic weed or gully root. Anamu has a long history of use in herbal medicine in all the countries where it grows. Herbalists and natural health practitioners have traditionally used anamu for a wide variety of conditions including arthritis, digestive disorders, infections and pain relief to name but a few.
Bitter Wood
The quassia tree grows from 50 to 100 feet high; it has smooth, gray bark and alternate, odd-pinnate leaves with oblong, pointed leaflets. Its small flowers are yellowish or greenish, its fruit is a small rupe about the size of a pea. A native of tropical America and the West Indies. A small tree native of Surinam and Guiana being introduced to the West Indies. Other common names are Picrasma, Bitter Bark, Jamaica Quassia, Quassia, Bitter Ash, Quassia Lignum. Bitter Wood is a simple, powerful bitter that is an old-time tonic for the digestive system.
Chaney Root
Chaney root (Smilax Balbisiana) medicinal herb is a traditional, well-talked about and well-loved plant or vine that is native to Jamaica and other Caribbean Islands as well as South and Central America. The common names are God bush, Medina, Jamaican sarsaparilla, Chaney vine, Chainy root, Chainy winder, Saw brier, Hog head, Smilax Balbisiana, Wild yam root, Jamaican herb, Brier wythe and Prickly green brier.
African Black Soap
African Black Soap, made from palm ash, tamarind extract, tar and plantain peel has been used in Africa for centuries to treat eczema, acne, oily skin, psoriasis, and other skin ailments. Historical references to shea butter, a staple of African pharmacology, date back to the reported shea butter caravans of Cleopatra’s Egypt. African black soap, also known as black soap (anago soap, alata simena, and dudu-osun), has long been used to heal problem skin. It’s good for thinning fine lines, evening out dark spots, razor bumps and eliminating blemishes.
Maca Powder
Maca, a root that belongs to the radish family, is most commonly available in powder form. Grown in the mountains of Peru, it has been called “Peruvian ginseng.” Maca’s benefits have been long valued, and has recently been popularized as a supplement and food ingredient. Maca was traditionally used as an energy tonic and fertility aid in both humans and animals, but now more and more people are adding it to smoothies for some added energy.
Himalayan Pink Salt
Himalayan salt is rock salt or halite from a mine in the Punjab region of Pakistan, which rises from the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It is mined in the Khewra Salt Mine, located in Khewra, Jhelum District, Punjab region, Pakistan. The foothills of the Salt Range are located 190 miles (310 km) from the Himalayas, 185 miles (298 km) from Amritsar, India and 160 miles (260 km) from Lahore. The salt sometimes occurs in a reddish or pink color, with some crystals having an off-white to transparent color. It is commonly used in cooking, in place of other table salt, in brine, and for bath products such as bath salts.
Annatto Seeds Powder
Annatto is an orange-red food coloring or condiment made from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana), which grows in tropical regions in South and Central America.
Indigeneous to Brazil, South and Central America. It is also widely cultivated in Tropical countries such as Mexico, Peru, Indonesia, Ecuador, Kenya, India and East Africa. The tree of annatto was originated from Brazil. It was used for ritual as well as decorative body painting, insect repellent, sunscreen and medical purposes. In 16th century, it is used for Mexican manuscript painting.
Nettle Leaf
Stinging nettle is a plant in the genus Urtica that originated as a native shrub in colder regions of Europe and Asia and is now found worldwide. It gets its name from the fine hairs on its leaves and stems that release irritating chemicals when they contact your skin. The plant has been part of herbal medicine for centuries. Tea made from stinging nettle contains a number of biologically active compounds with possible health benefits. The root and leaves of the plant contain several identified compounds that are biologically active, including flavonoids such as quercetin that have antioxidant properties.
Strongback Root Powder
Strong back (Morinda royoc) medicinal herb is a plant or shrub vine that is native to Jamaica and other Caribbean Islands, southern Florida, South America as well as Central America. It is a perennial vine from the Coffee or Rubiaceae family. It is a traditional folk medicine and the primary parts used as herbal medicine are the berries and root. The common names are Goat corn, Cheese shrub, Morinda royoc, Redgal, Duppy poison, Mouse’s pineapple, Yellow ginger, Yellowroot, Duppy poison and Yaw weed. The medicinal properties are tonic, carminative, antioxidant, digestive, stimulant, antimicrobial and aphrodisiac. The primary constituents are dichloromethane and anthraquinones.
Tamarind Leaf
The tamarind leaf is the leaf of a tall shade tree native to Asia and northern Africa and widely grown in India. The large pods of the fruit contain small seeds and a sour-pulp that, when dried, becomes extremely sour. Tamarind leaves are used for herbal medicine as well as for spicing up soups. Tamarind leaves are added to fish soups and other soups. Folk medicine uses Tamarind leaves for sprains and swelling. In order to increase the shelf life, the tamarind leaves are dried under the sun. The leaves are sometimes used in sub acid infusions, and a decoction is said to destroy worms in children, and is also useful for jaundice, and externally as a wash for sore eyes and ulcers.
Senna Pods
Senna (from Arabic sanā), the sennas, is a large genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, and the subfamily Caesalpinioideae. This diverse genus is native throughout the tropics, with a small number of species in temperate regions. The number of species is estimated to be from about 260 to 350. The type species for the genus is Senna alexandrina. About 50 species of Senna are known in cultivation. Sennas have for millennia played a major role in herbalism and folk medicine. Alexandrian senna (S. alexandrina) has long been traded commercially. Senna glycosides, or sennosides, are used in modern medicine as laxatives.
Frankincense
Frankincense is tapped from the scraggy but hardy trees by slashing the bark, which is called striping, and allowing the exuded resin to bleed out and harden. These hardened resins are called tears. There are several species and varieties of frankincense trees, each producing a slightly different type of resin. Differences in soil and climate create even more diversity of the resin, even within the same species. Frankincense has been traded on the Arabian Peninsula and in North Africa for more than 5000 years. Frankincense comes in many types, and its quality is based on color, purity, aroma, age, and shape.
Myrrh
Myrrh from the Hebrew ‘”מור”‘ (“mor”) and Arabic مر (mur) is the aromatic resin of a number of small, thorny tree species of the genus Commiphora, which is an essential oil termed an oleoresin. Myrrh resin is a natural gum. It has been used throughout history as a perfume, incense and medicine. Myrrh mixed with wine can also be ingested. When a tree wound penetrates through the bark and into the sapwood, the tree bleeds a resin. Myrrh gum, like frankincense, is such a resin. When people harvest myrrh, they wound the trees repeatedly to bleed them of the gum. In pharmacy, myrrh is used as an antiseptic in mouthwashes, gargles, and toothpastes. Myrrh is currently used in some liniments and healing salves that may be applied to abrasions and other minor skin ailments. Myrrh has also been recommended as an analgesic for toothaches and can be used in liniment for bruises, aches, and sprains.
Natural Oils
Natural Oils also known as essential oil’s are a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile aroma compounds from plants. Essential oils are also known as volatile oils, ethereal oils, aetherolea, or simply as the oil of the plant from which they were extracted, such as oil of clove. An oil is “essential” in the sense that it contains the “essence of” the plant’s fragrance—the characteristic fragrance of the plant from which it is derived. Essential or Natural oils have been used medicinally and ceremonially throughout recorded human history. Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine in which healing effects are ascribed to the aromatic compounds in essential oils and other plant extracts.
Fragrance Oils
Natural scents direct from the sources, such as herbs, spices, flowers, and trees, the next best thing is a fragrance oil that contains the extract and essence of the scent. Our Fragrance oils are made to smell like the original scent-producer, and are versatile and strong. Fragrance oils are available in a variety of scents, and are perfect for use in making soaps, perfumes, incense sticks, creams and lotions, body sprays, candles and shower gels. They can be used on their own or mixed over oil burners or simmering pots.