Scientific name: Juglans regia L.
Common name: walnut, common walnut.
English name: walnut.
Parts used: husk, leaves, kernel.
Components: essential oil, tannins, flavonoids, lipids (in seeds).
Properties: protective effect on environmental oxidative stress, stimulating skin cell metabolism.
Curiosity: to protect dogs from fleas it is useful to put some walnut leaves in their kennel. The ancients considered walnuts a divine food. From Jovis = Jupiter and glans = acorn, hence Jupiter's acor
