Hearty immunity
Jul 08, 2020
3 minutes
Words DR KAREN BRIDGMAN
The olive tree is indigenous to the Levant, in the Eastern Mediterranean, but is now grown and used extensively throughout the world. The first Spanish settlers introduced the tree to America. Since ancient times, the olive tree has been utilised for its many medicinal properties.
Active ingredients
The primary constituents of the leaf are the secoiridoids — oleuropein mainly — plus polyphenols, triterpenes, including oleanolic acid, and the flavonoids rutin, quercetin and diosmin. In the plant,
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