Medicinal Herbs


ABSCESS
Used to lower fever and inflammatory diseases.

ACONITE
Used in cases of inflammatory fever and acute rheumatism.

AGRIMONY
Highly recommended in asthma, coughs, and gonorrhea cases.

ALUM ROOT
Wild alum root is a powerful astringent.

AMERICAN CENTAURY
Usful in fevers, dysepsia, worms, and to restore the menstrual secretions.

AMERICAN VALERIAN
Used in cholera, nervous debility, and hysteria.

ANGELICA
Used in flatulent colic, heartburn, and debility.

ANGOSTURA
Used in bilious diarrheas and dysentery, intermittent fevers and dropsy.

ANISE
Valuable to remove flatulent colic of infants.

ARNICA
Used in gout, dropsy, and rheumatism; as a tincture it's used for bruises and wounds.

ASPARGUS ROOT
Valuable in dropsy and enlargement of the heart.

BACKACHE BRAKE
Used to expel worms.

BALM OF GILAD
Tincture of the buds is used in affections of the chest, stomach, and kidneys.

BALMONY
Especially valuble in jaundice and hepatic diseases.

BARBERRY
Berries used to cure canker.

BASSWOOD
Used as a poultice in painful swellings.

BAYBERRY
Valuable in jaundice, diarrhea, dysentery, canker in the mouth, throat, and bowels.

BEECH
Useful in diabetes, cutaneous diseases, and ulcers.

BEECHDROPS
An eminent astringent. Applied locally to minor cuts, wounds, and bruises.

BETHROOT
Valuable in coughs, asthma, hectic fever, and bloody urine.

BELLWORT
Used for sore throats and inflammation.

BIRD PEPPER
A powerful stimulant used in colds, rheumatism, and spasmodic affections.

BITTER BUGLE
Used to stop and cure hemorrhages of the lungs, bowels, or stomach.

BITTER HERB
Used to dispell fever.

BITTERROOT
Valuable in chronic liver complants, syphilis, and scrofula.

BLACK ALDER
Used with good effect in jaundice, diarrhea; Berres used for worms in children.

BLACKBERRY
Excellent in cases of diarrhea, dysentery, and cholera infantum.

BLACK BIRCH
Used in cases of diarrhea and cholera infantum.

BLACK COHOSH
Used to treat female complaints.

BLACK HELLEBORE
Use to treat palsy, apoplexy, epilepsy, chlorosis, and amenorrhea.

BLACK MUSTARD
It is used in large doses as an emeic.

BLACK NIGHTSHADE
A powerful narcotic. Used as a relaxant and calmative.

BLAZING STAR
The decoction was usful as a gargle in throat irritations.

BLESSED THISTLE
As a tea is said to cure fevers.

BLOODROOT
Valued in cases of pneumonia.

BLUE CARDINAL
Used in cases of gonorrhea, dropsy, diarrhea, and dysentery.

BLUE COHOSH
A favorable remedy for chronic uterine diseases, cramps, colic, and dropsy.

BLUE FLAG
A potent remedy for affections of the liver, spleen, and kidneys.

BONESET
Excellent in cases of colds, fevers, and the flu.

BORAGE
Used in cases of catarrh, rheumatism, and diseases of the skin.

BROADLEAF DOCK
Useful to purify the blood.

BROOKLIME
Useful in cases of obstructed menstruation.

BROOM
Especially useful in cases of dropsy.

BUCHU
Useful in curing derangement of the urinary organs.

BUCKBEAN
Used to treat scurvy.

BUCKHORN BRAKE
Very valuable in cases of female weakness.

BURDOCK
Use in cases of gout and scorbutic.

CARAWAY
Used in cases of flatulent colic of children.

CARPENTER'S SQUARE
Used to treat cuts, wounds, and bruises.

CATMINT
useful in treatment of upset stomach.

CHAMOMILE
Used to help week stomach, fevers, and nervousness.

CHECKERBERRY
The essence is used for colic in infants.

CHESTNUT
Used as a remedy in fevers.

CHICKWEED
Used as a poultice for ulcers.

CHICKORY
Used in jaundice and liver complaints.

CHOLIC ROOT
Used to treat colic.

CINCHONA
Useful as a tonic or antiperiodic.

CINNAMON
Used as a antiseptic.

CLARY
Used to treat night sweats and fevers.

CLEAVERS
Used to cure inflammation of the kidney and bladder.

CLOVES
Clove oil is used to alleviate a sudden toothache.

COCASH
Used to treat colds, rheumatism, nervous debility, headaches, and menstrual irregularities.

COLCHICUM
Used to treat palpitation of the heart and enlarged prostrate.

COLTSFOOT
As a tea is said to cure sore throats, cough, whooping cough, asthma, and pulmonary affections.

COMFREY
Useful in treating leucorrhea and female debility.

COMMON WORMWOOD
Used in fever, jaundice, worms, to promote the appetite, and externally in bruises and inflammations.

COOLWORT
Valuable treatment for strangury, diabetes, and all kidney complaints.

CORAL ROOT
a powerful herb used to lower any type of fever.

CORIANDER
Useful to treat pain in stomach and side.

COTTON ROOT
Said to promote uterine contractions.

COWPARSNIP
used as a diuretic.

CRANESBILL
A powerful astringent.

CUBEBS
Used to treat diseases in thhe urinary organs.

CUCKOLD
Used to treat palpitation of the heart.

CALVER'S ROOT
Used as a laxative, cholagogic, and tonic.

DAISY FLOWERS
As a tea is said to alliviate astha.

DANDELION
Recommended for treatment of diseases of the liver.

DILL
Used to treat colic, flatulency, and to stop hiccups.

DITTANY
Used to treat colds, headaches, colic, and lower fever.

DOG GRASS
Used to kill worms in children.

DOGWOOD
Bark used as a substitute for quinine.

DRAGON ROOT
Used as a expectorant as well as for lung disease.

DWARF ELDER
Used for any urinary disorder.

ELDER
Used to treat dropsy, erysipelas, and gouty affections.

ELECAMPANE
Used alot in the treatment of coughs, colds, and lung disease.

ENGLISH LAVENDER
Used to arrest vomiting.

ERGOT
Used to promote uterine contractions.

EUPHORBIA
Valuable in treating colic.

FENNEL
Used to exspel gas from bowels.

FEVERBUSH
Recommened in treatment of any kind of fever.

FEVERFEW
Used to treat colds, fever, and hysterics.

FEVERROOT
Used to treat fevers, colds, pleurisy, dyspepsia, and rheumatism.

FIGWORT
A powerful treatment for hemorrhages.

FIREWEED
Excellent for treating diseases in the lungs, stomach, and bowels.

FIVE_FINGER GRASS
Useful in treatment of fevers, night sweats, ans sore mouths.

FLAX
Useful to treat cough due to colds.

FOXGLOVE
Used in many of todays heart pills.

FROSTWORT
A valuable remedy for scrofula, syphilis, and canker sores.

FUMITORY
Used to treat jaundice.

GALANGAL
A stimulant used to treat headaches.

GARDEN CELANDINE
Used in cases of scrofula, cutaneous diseases, piles, and affections of the spleen.

GARDEN LETTUCE
Used as a narcotic where opium is objectionable.

GARLIC
Used for almost everything. Best know for lowering blood pressure.

GELSEMIUM
A very powerful depressant.

GINGER
Used to help keep a reliable digestive system.

GINSENG
Used for almost everything, best known to calm a week stomach.

GOLDEN ROD
Used to treat colic, stomach sickness, cholera morbus, dropsy, and severe diarrhea.

GOLDENSEAL
Used as a anti-biotic. said to be one of the best.

GOLD THREAD ROOT
Used to cure canker sores.

GREAT BURNET
Has been found very useful in arresting hemorrhage.

GROUND IVY
Used to relieve headaches and nasal congestion.

GROUND LAURAL
A superior remedy to all urinary diseases.

HARDHACK
Valued in treatment of cholera infantum.

HARVEST-LICE
A powerful expectorant.

HEART'S EASE
Said to be a powerful treatment for asthma, colds, and fevers.

HEMLOCK
Used to treat gangrene.

HOLLYHOCK
Used in cases of female weakness, inflummation of the bladder, and affections of the kidneys.

HONEY SUCKLE VINE
Juice is used for bee stings and mosquitoes bite.

HOPS
Valuable as a sedative.

HOREHOUND
Used as a expectorant. Simmer in boiling water 10 minutes, half-cup every three hours.

HORSEMINT
Used to supress vomiting and nausea.

HYDRANGEA
Valuable to remove gravel from the bladder and relieve the excruciating pain caused thereby.

HYSSOP
Valuable to treat quinsy, asthma, and chest disease.

INDIAN TURNIP
Recommanded to treat croup.

INDIGO WEED
Used as a wash to treat mouth ulcers and malignant sores.

IRIS
A powerful cathartic.

IRONWEED
Used to improve the blood.

JACOB'S LADDER
A powerful treatment for kidney disease and stones.

JACOB'S TEARS
Said to dissolve calculi.

JEWEL WEED
Used to prevent poision ivy reaction.

JOHNSWORT
Used to cure urinary affections.

JUNIPER
Used to treat gonorrhea, gleet, scorbutic diseases, and affections of the skin.

KING'S CLOVER
Used to treat all kinds of ulcers and inflammations.

KNOT GRASS
Valued in treatment of kidney diseases, irritations of the bladder, and spasmodic affections.

LABRADOR TEA
Used to treat coughs.

LADY'S SLIPPER
The roots as made into a tonic, diaphoretic, or antispasmodic. use to gentle a nerves.

LARKSPUR
Used to destory insects on body such as lice.

LEATHER WOOD
A poultice of the bark will produce vestication.

LEMON BALM
Useful in lowering fevers.

LIFE EVERLASTING
Used to treat coughs, colds, and bleeding of the lungs.

LIFE ROOT
Valuable as a treatment for profuse mentruation, gravel, and strangury.

LIQUORICE
Used to treat coughs, catarrh, and bronchial affections.

LIVERWORT
Used in cases of fevers, bleeding of the lungs, and coughs.

LOBELIA
Used to treat pneumonia, croup, epilepsy, cramps, and poison ivy.

LOGWOOD
A mild astringent.

LOVAGE
Used to treat nervousness.

LOW CHAMOMILE
Employed in cases of high fever and colds.

LOW MALLOW
Used to cure irritation of the bowels, kidneys, and urinary tract.

LUNGWORT
Used to treat diseases of the lungs, coughs, influenza, and catarrh.

MANDAKE
Used to treat fever, scrofula, syphilis.

MAIDENHAIR FERN
Valuable in treatment of coughs, asthma, horseness, influenza, and febrile disease.

MALE FERN
Used to exspel tapeworms.

MAN ROOT
Recommended for dropsy, strangury, and diseases of the lungs.

MARIGOLD
It is unequaled in the prevention of gangrene.

MARSH ROSEMARY
A remedy for dysentary, diarrhea, canker, leucorrhea, and gleet.

MARSH MALLOW
Used to treat pneumonia.

MASTERWORT
used to treat asthma, colic, palsy, and apoplexy.

MATICO
Used to arrest hemorrhages.

MAYWEED
Used to treat colds, headaches, amenorhea, and fevers.

MEADOW SAFFRON
A powerful sedative.

MELILOT
An expectorant and diuretic.

MEZEREON
Used to cure syphilis, scrofula, and chronic rheumatism.

MILKWEED
Valued as treatment of amenorrhea, dropsy, and scrofulous disease.

MILKWORT
Used to treat coughs and chest ailments.

MOLDAVIAN BALM
Useful in lowering fevers and to assist menstruation.

MOONWART
Used to prevert mucus discharge.

MOTHERWORT
Used to treat wakefulness, disturbed sleep, and liver disease.

MOUNTAIN ASH
The bark is used in bilious diseases to cleanse the blood.

MOUNTAIN DITTANY
Brewed into a tea is a diaphoretic.

MOUNTAIN MINT
Used to treat colds and fevers.

MUGWORT
Used to treat epilepsy.

MULBERRY
Used to dispel worms from the body.

MULLEIN
Used to make ear drops. Cure for the cough, Also as a poultice in white swellings, mumps, and sore throat.

NETTLE
Used to treat hemorrhoids.

OAK BARK
Used to treat sore throat and offensive ulcers.

OAK OF JERUSALEM
Used to exspel worms in children.

ORANGE
The fruit is given for fevers and colds.

OSWEGO TEA
Used to stop vomiting and nausea.

PAPOOSEROOT
Used for chronic uterine diseases,rheumatism, dropsy, colic, and hysterics. Also used as a parturient.

PAREIRA BRAVA
Used inchronic inflamation of the blatter, disorders ofthe urinary organs, leucorrhea,dropsy,and jaundice.

PARSLEY
Root used for dropsy, retention of urine, strangury, and gout. Seed used to destroy head lice, nits, etc. Leaves bruised and used as formentation for bug bites and stings.

PEACH
Bark and kernels used in intermittent fever, leucorrhea,dyspepsia, and jaundice. Leaves used for bladder and urethra irritation, and stomach and abdomen inflamation.

PENNYROYAL
Restores suppressed lochia.

PEONY
Valuable for treatment of epilepsy, spasms, and whooping cough.

PEPPERMINT
Used to treat spasm cramps.

PILEWOOD
Used to treat hemorrhage of the bowels.

PIPSISSEWA
useful in treatment of scrofula, chronic rheumatism, and kidney disease.

PITCHER PLANT
Useful as a tonic.

PLANTAIN
Used to cure syphilitic, mercurial, and scrofulous diseases.

PLEURISY ROOT
Used to treat inflammation of the lungs.

POISON IVY
Used to treat paralysis of the bladder.

POKE
Has superior power as a alterative.

POLYPODY FERN
Used to treat pulmonary and hepatic complaints.

POMEGRANATE
Used to dispel worms.

POPLAR
Active principle of the bark is salicin and populin.

POPPY
The syrup is given to restless children to promote sleep.

PRICKLY ASH
A valuable tonic to lower typhoid fevers.

PRIVET
Leaves are an astringent.

PUMPKIN
Used to remove tapeworms.

PUSSY WILLOW
Used in indigestion,in weak and relaxed condition of the bowels, diarrhea, worms, gangrene, and indolent ulcers. The buds are an aphrodisiac.

QUAKING ASPEN
Used as a vermifuge by veterinaries.

QUEEN OF THE MEADOW
A remedy for urinary disorders.

QUEEN'S ROOT
Invaluable in treating scrofula, syphilis, liver and cutaneous.

RED ALDER
Used th cure syphilis and skin diseases.

RED CARDINAL
Said to remove worms from the bowels

RED CEDAR
Useful in cases of kidney complaints, Suppression of urine, and obstructed menstruation.

RED CLOVER
Blossoms used to cure cancerous ulcers.

RED COHOSH
Used to treat uterine diseases, rheumatism, dropsy, and colic.

RED MAPLE
As a gentle tonic can be used to wash sore eyes.

RED RASPBERRY
An excellent remedy in diarrhea.

RED ROOT
Used as a gargle for canker sores.

RHATANY
Used to cure chronic diarrhea.

RHUBARB
Cathartic principle limited to lower bowels.

RICHWEED
Especially used to treat cuts, bruises, and sprains.

ROCKBRAKE
Used to treat diarrhea, dysentery, night sweats, and remove worms.

ROMAN WORMWOOD
Used to treat plies, ulcers, and painful swellings.

ROSE
Mild astringent.

ROSEMERY
Used to treat colds, colic, and nervous conditions.

ROSE WILLOW
Bitter, astringent, detergent, and antiperiotic. Used occasionally as a substitute for quinine.

ROSIN - WEED
Used as a expectorant.

RUE
A narcotic used to treat colic, hysterics, epilepsy, and as a vermifuge.

SAGE
Valuable to treat colds, coughs, and night sweats.

SAGE WILLOW
Mucilaginous, astringant, demulcent.

SARSAPARILLA
Used to treat chonic diseases of the skin.

SASSAFRAS ROOT
Is said to reduce fevers.

SAVIN
Used to treat kidney complants, and obtructed menstruation.

SCABBISH
Valuable to treat cough, tetter, and eruptive diseases.

SCABIOUS
Used to drive away fevers.

SCULLCAP
Used to treat all complants of the nervous system.

SCURVEY GRASS
Used to treat scurvey, paralysis, and dropsy.

SENNA
A mild cathartic.

SHEEP LAUREL
Used to cure syphilitic diseases.

SHEEP SORREL
Said to cure cancers and tumors.

SILVER WEED
Used to treat diarrhea.

SKUNK CABBAGE
Successfully used in treating whooping cough.

SLIPPERY ELM
Used to treat inflammation in the lungs, bowels, stomach, bladder, and kidneys.

SMALL SOLOMON'S SEAL
Much used to treat female disorders.

SNAKEHEAD
A gentle laxative.

SPEARMINT
Used to treat colic, spasms, dropsy, and vomiting.

SPLEEN WORT
Used to cure enlarged spleen.

SQUAWBUSH
Said to relax cramps and spasms.

SQUAW VINE
A powerful uterine tonic.

SQUAW WEED
A female tonic and regulator.

STAR ROOT
A valuable tonic.

STEEPLEBUSH
A powerful astringent.

STRIPED MAPLE
Used to remove worms from bowels.

SUMMER SAVORY
Used as a tea to cure headaches.

SWEET BALM
Said to chew the leaves to relive irritations of the mouth and throat.

SWEET BASIL
Used to stop excessive vomiting.

SWEET BUGLE
Useful in cases of diabetes.

SWEET CICELY
Useful in treating coughs and flatulence.

SWEET CLOVER
Used to treat ulcers, and burns.

SWEET FERN
useful in cases of dysentery, fevers, leucorrhea.

SWEET GALE
This is a stimulant, alterative, depurative, and vulnerary.

SWEET GUM
A household remedy for coughs and colds.

THIMBLE WEED
A treatment for bright's disease.

THYME
Used to treat headaches, weak stomach, hysteria, and colic.

TONQUA
Used to treat whooping cough.

TRILLIUM
Used to treat skin affections.

TURKEY CORN
One of the best treatments for syphilitic disease.

VERVAIN
Used in fevers,colds,obstucted menses, scrofula, gravel, and worms.

UVA-URSI
Used in chronic kidney and urinary track infections, strangury, diabetes, and fluor albus.

VIOLET
Used for colds, cough, and sore throats.

VIRGIN'S BOWER
Used in severe headache,cacerous ulcers, and as an ointment for itch.

WALNUT
Used in scrofula, debility, diarrhea, and as a gentle cathartic; as a wash for ulcers and sore eyes.

WATER AVENS
Used to cure ulcers.

WATERCUP
Used in chlorosis,dyspepsia and gastric difficulties; said to be useful in smallpox.

WATER HOARHOUND
This is made into a tonic and is mildly narcoti; has a quieting effect.

WATERMELON
Valuable in strangury, urinary infections, and dropsy.

WATER PEPPER
Used in amenorrhea, gravel, colds, coughs, milk sickness, bowel complaints, and erysipelas.

WAXWORK
Useful in cases of obstructed menstruation.

WHITE ASH
Beneficial in constipation; the seeds are said to prevent obesity.

WHITE CLOVER
Used to treat chest complaints.

WHITE COHOSH
Useful to cure the itch.

WHITE HELLEBORE
Valuable as a arterial sedative.

WHITE MUSTARD
Used to relieve pain and mitigate inflammation.

WHITE PINE
Is said to cure ordinary cough.

WHITE ROOT
White root is used for an insect powder for fleas, etc. The fresh leaves or flowers will destroy or drive them away.

WHITE WILLOW
Used in fever, debility of the digestiv organs, hemorrhages, chronic mucus discharges, diarrhea, and dysntary. Exerts its virtues in the form of an ointment.

WHITEWOOD
Useful in fever, low condition of the system, dyspepsia, diarrhea, and hysteria.

WHORT WHORTLEBERRY
The leaves are strongly astringent and somewhat bitter. They are of great value in diarrhea. Amixture of equal parts of bilberry leaves, thyme, and strawberry leaves makes an excellent tea

WICKUP
Used in dysentery, diarrhea, and where an astringent is required.

WILD CARROT
Used in cases of dropsy, gravel, and strangury.

WILD CELANDINE
Used to cleanse ulcers.

WILD CHERRY
Used in cases of fever, cough, dyspepsia, scrofula, and genral debility.

WILD LETTUCE
Same as GARDEN LETTUCE but a bit stronger.

WILD TURNIP
It is acrid, an expectorant and diaphoretic, and is violently irritating if improperly used by one unfamiliar with its peculiarities

WILD YAM
Successfully used in bilious colic, spasms, cramps, flatulence, after-pains, and infections of the liver.

WINTERGREEN
Increases flow of urine. Stimulates the stomach when used in small doses. Large doses are emetic.

WITCH HAZEL
Extract is an astringent and antiseptic.

WOOD BETONY
Used to relive headaches.

WORMSEED
Valuable in expeling worms from children.

YARROW
Used in hemmorages, incontinenae of urine, diabetes, piles, dysentary, flatulency, and as injection in leucorrhea.

YELLOW CLOVER
Used to treat chest complaints

YELLOW COHOSH
Useful as a mild sedative.

YELLOW JESSAMINE
A valuable febrifuge in all fevers, except conjestive; also used in nervous irritability, headaches, and lockjaw.

YELLOW LADY'S SLIPPER
Used to treat headaches.

YELLOW PARILLA
Made into a laxative bitter, also used for scrofula, syphilis, rheumatism, gout, and skin deseases.

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