{"id":208629,"date":"2022-09-29T19:02:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208629"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T13:32:21","slug":"ancient-plant-silphion-known-for-curing-many-diseases-probably-still-around-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ancient-plant-silphion-known-for-curing-many-diseases-probably-still-around-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient plant silphion known for curing many diseases probably still around: Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201cAncient plant silphion known for curing many diseases probably still around: Expert\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in <strong>Down To Earth\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>on<strong> 29th September 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a recent study, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a Mediterranean medicinal plant named Silphion which mysteriously vanished 2,000 years ago may still be around.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is Silphion?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Silphion is a yellow-flowered plant that was thought to have gone extinct some 2,000 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Habitat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These plants may need cold and moist conditions for seed germination. This is because the plants related to Silphion, such as Ferula drudeana and Ferula asafoetida, also need similar environmental conditions for seeds to germinate<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ancient usage of the plant<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The resin of the Silphion was extensively used as a spice, perfume, aphrodisiac, contraceptive and medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 It also occupied an important place in the export economy of ancient Cyrene, an old Greek and later Roman colony near north-eastern Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Causes of extinction of Silphion: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overharvesting, Human-induced environmental changes and Widespread deforestation and desertification.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What has been found now about Silphion?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study has claimed that the Silphion plant may still be around and not have gone extinct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is because recently researchers from Istanbul University found a plant species at three locations in Turkey, that resembled the ancient plant Silphion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cAncient plant silphion known for curing many diseases probably still around: Expert\u201d published in Down To Earth\u00a0on 29th September 2022. What is the News? According to a recent study, a Mediterranean medicinal plant named Silphion which mysteriously vanished 2,000 years ago may still be around.\u00a0 What is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ancient-plant-silphion-known-for-curing-many-diseases-probably-still-around-expert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancient plant silphion known for curing many diseases probably still around: Expert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-208629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}