The other day I went to Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Herb Garden (Tokyo-to yakuyo shokubutu-en).
It is a medical herb garden for education and experiments purpose, and thus the real medicinal herbs as well as dangerous plants are planted.
Now, many opium poppies (Papaver somniferum and P. setigerum) have gorgeous flowers.
Other than poppies, we can see many medical plants.
In Japan, Kampo, a way to prescribe herbal medicine has developed based on the Chinese medicine.
The Kampo, and the Chinese medicine use many kinds of herbs, so there are great many of medical plants in Japan and other Asian countries.
I learned those plants at my college , while I haven’t seen some of them.
This garden has any and every plants for medical usage and interested me very much.
