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Herbal Tea Collection
Top Ten Researched Herbs

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Natural Child Care

Herbs & Children
Natural Remedies For Children
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Herbal Medicine For Children
Herbal Treatments For Children

Natural Beauty

Homemade Beauty Solutions
Essential Oils In The Bath
Essential Oils & Affect On Skin

Natural Health Care

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Therapeutic Teas & Mixtures
Honey As A healer
Aphrodisiacs
Herbs For Liver Problems
Herbs For Obesity
Herbs For Quitting Smoking
Infertility
Native American Herbal Remedies
Natural Care For Hair Loss
Dealing With Head Lice
Herbs For Arthritis
Natural Arthritis Care
Herbs For High Blood Pressure
Herbs For Kidney Stones

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Herbs For Circulation
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Alternate plant names

Blood: Elder sap or another tree sap.
Blood Leather: Reindeer Moss/Rock Tripe/Caribou Lichen
Bloodwort: Yarrow
Bread and Cheese Tree: Hawthorne. Also known as: Whitethorn, Hazels,Gazels, Halves, Quickset, Albespyne, L'Epine Noble. The buds are called Ladies' Meat; the blossoms are known as May Flowers. The fruit are known as haws. See Hawthorn
Sopewort: Soapwort/Bruisewort. See Figwort and Comfrey and Daisy,Common
Burning Bush: Fraxinella, otherwise known as Bastard. More commonly known as False or White Dittany.
Candelmas Maiden: Snowdrop. (What Snowdrop is, I haven't figured out,yet.)
Capon's Tail: Valerian.
Christ's Ladder: Centaury, Centaury Gentian. Century. Red Centaury.Filwort. Centory. or Feverwort
Queen of the Night: Night Blooming Cereus. AKA: Vanilla Cactus.Sweet-scented Cactus. Large-flowered Cactus, Deer-Horn Cactus
Cheeses: Marsh Mallow
Chocolate Flower: Wild Geranium
Christ's Eye: Vervain Sage
Clear-eye: Clary Sage
Click: Goosegrass
Clot: Great Mullein
Corpse Plant: Indian Pipe. (Actually a saphrophyte fungus)
Crowdy Kit: Figwort
Cuddy's Lungs: Great Mullein
Weed: Ox-Eye Daisy
Daphne: Laurel/Bay
Priest's Crown: Dandelion leaves
Swine's Snout: Also Dandelion leaves.
Devil's Plaything: Yarrow
Dew of the Sea: Rosemary
Dragon Wort: Bistort
Earth Smoke: Fumitory
Black Sampson: Echinacea. Also sometimes known as (excuse the word),Niggerhead.
Elf's Wort: Elecampane
Enchanter's Plant: Vervain
Englishman's Foot: Common Plantain
Erba Santa Maria: Spearmint
Everlasting Friendship: Goosegrass
Eye of the Day: Common Daisy
Eye of the Star: Horehound
Eye Root: Goldenseal
Eyes: Aster, Daisy, Eyebright, etc. (any similar flower, it seams.)
Fairy Smoke: Indian Pipe
Felon Herb: Mugwort
Hair of Venus: Maidenhair Fern
Moonwort: and actual Fern. :)
Osmund the Waterman: Royal Fern
Heart of Osmund: Also the Royal Fern
Black Maidenhair: Black Spleenwort (another fern)
Five Fingers: Five-leaf grass or ginseng (I haven't narrowed this down yet)
Fox's Clote: Burdock
Poor Man's Treacle: Garlic
Crow's Foot: Wild Geranium
Dove's Foot: Wild Geranium
Old-Maid's-Nightcap: Wild Geranium
Shameface: Wild Geranium
Man's Health: Ginseng
God's Hair: Hart's Tongue Fern
Golden Star: Avens
Gosling Wing: Goosegrass
Graveyard Dust: Mullein
Great Ox-eye: Ox-eye Daisy
Hag's Taper: Great Mullein
Hagthorn: Hawthorn
Hare's Beard: Great Mullein
Herb of Grace: Vervain
Hind's Tongue: Hart's Tongue Fern
Holy Herb: Yerba Santa
Holy Rope: Hemp Agrimony
Hook and Arn: Yerba Santa
Horse Tongue: Hart's Tongue Fern
Horse Hoof: Coltsfoot
Innocense: Bluets
Jacob's Staff: Great Mullein
Joy of the Mountain: Marjoram
Jupiter's Staff: Great Mullein
King's Crown: Black Haw
Knight's Milfoil: Yarrow
Lad's Love: Southernwood
Lamb's Ears: Betony
Little Dragon: Tarragon
Love in Idleness: Pansy
Love Leaves: Burdock
Love Lies Bleeding: Amaranth or Anemone
Love Man: Goosegrass
Love Parsley: Lovage
Love Root: Orris Root
Cucumber Tree: Magnolia
Maiden's Ruin: Southernwood
Master of the Woods: Woodruff
May: Black Haw
May Lily: Lily of the Valley
May Rose: Black Haw
Maypops: Passion Flower
Mistress of the Night: Tuberose
Torches: Great Mullein
Mutton Chops: Goosegrass
Nose Bleed: Yarrow
Tanner's Bark: Common Oak
Old Man's Flannel: Great Mullein
Old Man's Pepper: Yarrow
Oliver: Olive
Password: Primrose
Pucha-pat: Patchouli
Peter's Staff: Great Mullein
Cuckoo's Bread: Common Plantain
White Man's Foot: Common Plantain
Queen of the Meadow: Meadowsweet
Queen of the Meadow Root: Gravelroot
Ram's Head: American Valerian
Red Cockscomb: Amaranth
Ring-o-bells: Bluebells
Robin-run-in-the-grass: Goosegrass
Clear Eye: Clary Sage
See Bright: Clary Sage
Scaldhead: Blackberry
Seven Year's Love: Yarrow
Silver Bells: Black Haw
Sorcerer's Violet: Periwinkle
St. John's Herb: Hemp Agrimony. (No, this is not St. John's Wort.)
St. John's Plant: Mugwort (See last disclaimer)
Star Flower: Borage
Star of the Earth: Avens
Starweed: Chickweed
Sweethearts: (You guessed it) Goosegrass
Tarragon: Mugwort
Tartar Root: Ginseng
Thousand Weed: Yarrow
Thunder Plant: House Leek
Tongue of Dog: Hound's Tongue
Unicorn Horn: True Unicorn Root
Wax Dolls: Fumitory
Weazel Snout: Yellow Dead Nettles/Yellow Archangel
White: Ox-eye Daisy
White Wood: White Cinnamon
Witch's Asprin: White Willow/Willow Bark
Witch's Brier: Brier Hips

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Reference

Alternate Plant Names Glossary Of Definitions Measurement Conversions
Poisonous Plants Stain Solutions Useful Measurements

 

How-To's

Tinctures Herbal Preparation Methods Make Glow
Heating/Cooling Pads Making Infusion Oils Making Salves

Colds/Flu/Respiratory

Beating The Cold Bug
Herbs For Common Cold
Herbs For Cough
Natural Asthma Care
Natural Care For Fevers

Digestion/Stomach

Herbs For Constipation
Herbs For Diarrhea
Herbs For Digestion
Herbs For Motion-Sickness

For Men

Herbs For Prostatic Hypertrophy
Herbs For The Prostate
Herbs For Impotence
Natural Care For Prostatis

For Women

Anemia During Pregnancy
Back Pain During Pregnancy
Fertility & Contraception
Herbs For Childbirth
Herbs For Delayed Menses
Herbs For Menopause
Herbs For Post Childbirth
Herbs For PMS/Menopause
Herbs For Post Partum
Herbs For Pre-Menstrual Tension

Headaches/Migraines/Insomnia

Get A Good Night's Sleep
Herbs For Headaches
Herbs For Insomnia
Herbs For Migraines
More On Insomnia

Injuries

Herbs For Burns & Scalds
Natural Care For Bone Fractures
Herbs For Dog Bites

Skin Ailments

Herbs For Eczema
Herbs For Poison Ivy
Natural Acne Treatments
Natural Care For Dermatitis
Natural Care For Stretchmarks
Natural Care For Wrinkles
Stop Cold & Canker Sores

Natural Pet Care

Herbal Healing For Pets
All Purpose Herbal Pet Kit
Dealing With Fleas
Pets & Essential Oils
Traveling With Catnip


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