Walnut

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