Absinthe

Artemisia absinthium, Wormwood

Part used: The whole herb

This plant is notable for the large number of powerful ingredients it contains, making it somewhat of a single-handed pharmacy of bitters.
Highly toxic! Consult herbalist, pharmacist or medical expert first!

Agrimony

Agrimonia eupatoria, Church Steeples, Cocklebur, Philanthropos, Stickwort

Part used: Flowers, leaves

Agrimony has a long history of medicinal use.
anti-inflammatory - antibiotic - astringent. Is used as a tonic and diuretic and for digestive disorders, including diarrhea. The plant is also applied to slow-healing wounds.

Aloe Vera

Aloe vera

Part used: Leaves

A word of caution: There are preparations made for internal use, but only those are safe for it.
Aloe's value lies in its ability to regenerate damaged tissues, which it does with dramatic swiftness. Excellent for burns, radiation burns, cuts and bruises. For singers and speakers, clears throat.
One of the best herbs to clean out the colon and to promote menstruation when suppressed. Will expell worms after several doses. Cleans morbit matter from the stomach, liver, kidneys, spleen and bladder.

Angelica

Angelica atropurpurea, Angelica archangelica, Archangel, Root of the Holy Ghost

Part used: Roots, stems and seed

Preparations from stems, seeds, and roots are helpful for calming digestive disturbances and stimulating the appetite and for alleviating coughs. A good tonic. For stomach trouble, heartburn, gas, colic, colds and fever. Strengthens the heart.
Powdered root is reputed to cause disgust for all spirituous liquors.
The stems are candied for tasty treats.

Anise

Pimpinella anisum, Sweet Cumin

Part used: Seed and leaves

Used for colics in infants, to fight nausea, to prevent fermentation of gas in stomach and bowels. Aids digestion. Overcomes disurbances caused by overeating. Anise's seeds flavor cough medicines, cough drops, baked goods, candies and liqueurs. Leaves are added to salads.

Balm

Melissa officinalis, Lemon Balm, Melissa, Sweet Balm

Part used: Leaves

Preparations from leaves are used to treat feverish colds and headaches, calm the mind and the heart, calm a nervous stomach and relieve menstrual cramps. Is used as a remedy for depression and anxiety.
The crushed leaves also help heal wounds and insect bites.

Basil

Ocimum basilicum

Part used: Leaves

Tea taken hot is good for treating nausea, gas pains and dysentery, helps for suppressed menstruation. Tea made with basil and peppercorns reduce fevers. A popular culinary herb.

Basil Thyme

Calamintha nepeta, Calamint, Mountain Mint

Part used: Leaves

Basil Thyme breaks a fever by promoting sweating. It is also used as an expectorant and helps to cure jaundice.
Effective when applied to snake bites and insect stings.

Bearberry

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, Montain Cranberry, Sandberry, Bear's-grape, Kinnikinnick

Part used: Leaves

Prime remedy for kidney and bladder infection.

Betony

Betonica officinalis

Part used: Leaves

Excellent for headache, insanity, neuralgia, stomach trouble, heartburn, indigestion, stomach cramp, hepatitis, palsy, convlsions, gout, colic, nervous ailment, colds, 'flu, poisonous bites. It is a valuable herb.

Bistort

Polygonum bistoria, Adderwort, Patience Dock, Snakeweed

Part used: Leaves, root

Bistort is a powerful astringent because of its high tannin content. Externally the powdered root controls bleeding, internally the extract controls diarrhea, heavy menstrual bleeding and vomiting. Used as a mouthwash to heal mouth and throat inflammations and will strengthen loose teeth. Young leaves may be cooked and eaten like spinach.

Black Elderberry

Sambucus nigra, Bourtree, Pipe Tree

Part used: Flowers, berries

Expressed juice of the berries will purge. Juice will also promote all fluid secretions. Much used in dropsy.
Blossoms beaten up with lard make good ointment in burns and scalds. Blossoms together with peppermint leaves, sweetened with honey excellent tea for colds.
The berries yield delicious wine and jam.
The bark and roots produce a black dye, the leaves a green dye and the berries a purple coloring.

Black Haw

Viburnum prunifolium, Cramp Bark, Stagbush

Part used: Bark

An extract of the boiled Black Haw bark aids in childbirth and as a medicine to prevent abortions or miscarriages. Acts as a sedative on the uterine muscles - alleviates menstrual cramps and the afterbirth pains.

Black Poplar

Populus nigra, Balsam Poplar, Balm of Gilead

Parts used: Bark, buds, leaves

Since the Black Poplar is well supplied with salicin, a substance closely related to the active agent in modern aspirin, the buds, the bark and the leaves have been used since antiquity in preparations for coughs, asthma, rheumatism and inflammations of all kinds. The buds are used in salves for burns, boils and in liniments for rheumatic pains - internally for the relief of pain as well as heart trouble.

Burdock

Arctium Lappa, Lappa minor, Bardane, Beggar's Button, Thornybur

Parts used: Root

One of the best blood purifiers. Cleanses and eliminates impurities from the blood rapidly. Will clear skin diseases, boils and carbuncles. Made into a salve for skin eruptions, burns, wounds.

Diuretic, especially good for children.

Excellent to reduce weight!

Centaury

Centaurium erythraea, Bluebottle, Bluet

Part used: Flowers

A tea brewed from the dried flowering plant serves as an appetite stimulant, aids digestion, eases an attack of heartburn and relieves gas pains. Very bitter, used as an ingredient of vermouth.

Chamomile

Matriacaria chamomilla

Part used: Flowers

Tonic - sedative - produces perspiration - promotes menstrual flow - will soften skin - expels gas - aids digestion.
Prevents fermentation in the stomach, especially good for babies with colics or while teething. Tea relieves pain and swelling caused by arthritis or an injury.
A poultice of chamomile will often prevent gangrene.

Chicory

Chichorium endiva, Blue Sailors, Coffeeweed

Parts used: Root, leaves

Tonic - laxative - diuretic
Disorders of kidneys, liver, stomach and spleen. For jaundice - settles upset stomach - tones up system. The dried, roasted, and ground root is often blended with coffee; it gives the brew a pleasantly bitter taste while reducing its stimulating effects, since chicory has no caffeine.

Cloves

Syzygium aromaticum

Part used: Buds

Almost 20 percent of the clove's weight is Essential Oil, obtained by distilling and used in perfumes, blends of spices, medications, and candies. Clove oil is a powerful antiseptic, and is also frequently used as a local anesthetic for toothache.

Dandelion

Taraxacum dens-leonis, Fairy clock, Pissenlit, Priest's-crown, Telltime

Part used: Leaves, flowers and root

A tea from the leaves is used as a tonic to purify blood and to promote bowel regularity.
A brew from the roots is a strong diuretic, good for jaundice, eczema, kidney trouble, dropsy, inflamation of bowels and fever. Increases activity of liver, pancreas and spleen. Good in enlargement of liver and spleen. The blossoms are made into wine and the roots can be ground, roasted and brewed into a coffe-like beverage.
The flowers can be boiled to make a yellow dye, the roots a magenta one.

Dog Rose

Rosa canina, Dog Brier, Wild Brier

Part used: Fruit, roots

Rose hips can be eaten straight from the shrub - supplement of Vitamine C.
Roots help heal the wound of a bite of a mad dog.

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus globulus, Blue Gum, Fever Tree

Part used: Leaves

Eucalyptus is famous for its aroma and the antiseptic, germ-killing properties of the aromatic oil of its leaves and resin. Steam inhalations are a popular treatment for respiratory ailments - bronchitis - asthma.

Fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

Part used: Seeds and leaves

Tea makes an excellent eyewash - relieves gas - helps acid stomach - good for cramp and colic in infants. Eliminates poisons - excellent for obesity.
Fennel boiled with barley is good for nursing mothers, increases milk.

Feverfew

Chrysanthemum parthenium, Bachelor's Button, Featherfew, Wild Chamomile

Parts used: Leaves and flowers

Remedy for reducing fevers, nervousness, hysteria and low spirits. Tea from the leaves to treat colds - indigestion - diarrhea; from the flowers - promotes mentrual flow.
Feverfew flowers will keep bees away, and a tincture of the blossoms doubles as an insect repellent and a soothing balm for their bites.

Foxglove

Digitalis purpurea, Deadmen's Bells, Witch's Bells

Part used: Leaves

Foxglove is among the loveliest, most famous, most important, and most dangerous medicinal plants. Its long green leaves are powdered into digitalis, the cardiac stimulant that keeps million of heart patients alive and it has been used medicinally since as early as the 13th century. The English physician William Withering published a paper in 1785 which has become a classic in medicinal literature. For many years he conducted experiments to determine the proper dosage, because Foxglove is as likely to stop a heart as to keep it going. Extremely poisonous.

Garlic

Allium sativum, Poor-man's-treacle

Part used: Bulb

Garlic is among the most ancient of cultivated plants and has long been used as a food flavoring, as a medicine, and as a germicide, since its juice contains the antibiotic oil allicin.

All the virues claimed for garlic are almost too good to be true if most of them were not independently supported by research.
General antiseptic and antibiotic ('Russian penicillin') - prevents gangrene and sepsis. Internally effective in dysentery - typhoid - cholera - bacterial food poisoning. It's a safe antiworming agent. It is an excellent agent for bronchitic infections - tuberculosis. Garlic lowers blood-cholesterol levels - reduces hypertension - stimulates the digestive system. Garlic enhances the body's immune defences...

Gentian

Gentianan lutea

Parts used: Root

Powerdul and effective and reliable tonic - purifies blood - good for liver complaints - spleen affections. Improves appetite - strengthens digestive organs - increases circulation - invigorates entire system.

Useful in fevers, colds. Remedy in intermittent fever in malarial countries, acts like quinine. Reduces poisons from insect and snake bites.

Ginseng

Panax ginseng, Ren Shen

Part used: Root

The root of the ginseng has for centuries been reputed to be a remedy for cancer, rheumatism, diabetes, sexual debility, and aging. The claims date back to ancient China, and the root was long of great value there.

Hawthorn

Crataegus monogyna, Maybush, Whitethorn

Part used: Fruit and leaves

Hawthorn berries are used in a variety of heart-related problems, especially as a cardiac depressant - it slows the heartbeat in an enlarged or overactive heart - and it diminishes blood pressure. Also effective for insomnia.

Hibiscus

Hibiscus species, China Rose

Part used: Flowers

Soothing effect on the mucous membranes that line the respiratory and digestive tracts.