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The article discusses the medicinal use of several Mediterranean plants including St. John's wort or Hypericum perforatum for depression, Rhamnus alaternus for lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, and anise or Pimpinella anisum for stomach pain and headaches.

A personal narrative is presented in which the author shares his experience of gardening in plana, a plateau extending from the Montgo mountain in Spain towards the Cape of San Antonio, Cuba, which was later declared in 1987 as a nature reserve by the government of the Communidad Valenciana.