Did you know that some grass plants are over 1,000 years old?

 Did you know that some grass plants are over 1,000 years old?

If you have ever left your house before, you would have seen grass.

Apart from cows eat it, what other facts are there to know about grass?

There are over 6000 different species of grass in the world; some examples are rice, wheat, corn, oats and sugarcane.

Grass is the familiar name given to the family of plants known as the graminae.

The sizes vary from short lawn grasses, to as tall as 120 feet, which is 40 meters.

The first ever lawn mower was invented in 1830 and relied on people power to spin the cutting cylinder, just 190 years later your lawn mower can now be completely left on its own with the rise of robot lawn mowers.

Twenty percent of the earth’s vegetation’s main ingredient is grass.

There are some plants from 1,000 years ago that are still living today.

Because of the high demand of artificial grass for such places as sport arenas, the grass producing industry is multi-million dollar business.

Bamboo is a type of grass; pandas feed of this and grow to become big pandas!

Grass has been used to make paper, fabric… even houses are sometimes constructed by bamboo and straw.

Most alcoholic drinks contain some type of grass, including beer and whiskey Sugar and bread are made from a type of grass too.

Finally, if you’ve ever wondered why grass is green, it is because of the chlorophyll, the chemical found in most plants, which gives grass its green color.

Healing with medicinal plants is as old as mankind itself. The connection between man and his search for drugs in nature dates from the far past, of which there is ample evidence from various sources: written documents, preserved monuments, and even original plant medicines. Awareness of medicinal plants usage is a result of the many years of struggles against illnesses due to which man learned to pursue drugs in barks, seeds, fruit bodies, and other parts of the plants. Contemporary science has acknowledged their active action, and it has included in modern pharmacotherapy a range of drugs of plant origin, known by ancient civilizations and used throughout the millennia. The knowledge of the development of ideas related to the usage of medicinal plants as well as the evolution of awareness has increased the ability of pharmacists and physicians to respond to the challenges that have emerged with the spreading of professional services in facilitation of man's life.

Ever since ancient times, in search for rescue for their disease, the people looked for drugs in nature. The beginnings of the medicinal plants’ use were instinctive, as is the case with animals.[1] In view of the fact that at the time there was not sufficient information either concerning the reasons for the illnesses or concerning which plant and how it could be utilized as a cure, everything was based on experience. In time, the reasons for the usage of specific medicinal plants for treatment of certain diseases were being discovered; thus, the medicinal plants’ usage gradually abandoned the empiric framework and became founded on explicatory facts. Until the advent of iatrochemistry in 16th century, plants had been the source of treatment and prophylaxis.[2] Nonetheless, the decreasing efficacy of synthetic drugs and the increasing contraindications of their usage make the usage of natural drugs topical again.

Grasses are often considered valuable for their aesthetic qualities, but there is much more to these plants than meets the eye. All grasses are in the Poaceae family, which is one of the most abundant families of plants on earth.¹ From pasture grasses for animal consumption to food crops, such as oat and barley, for human consumption, grasses make up the world's most significant food source.