Red Clover Blossoms

  RED CLOVER BLOSSOMS By Jyll Renee Botanical name:  Trifolium pretense Common Name:  Wild clover, Trefoil Habitat:  This plant grows in Europe and North America. The flowering tops are used in Botanical medicine Info:  Red Clover is used for menopause, osteoporosis, cough, eczema. Traditional Chinese and western folk medicine used this plant as a diuretic, [...]

Red Raspberry Leaf

By Jyll Renee Botanical name: Rubus idaeus Common name: Raspberry, Red Raspberry Habitat:  Red Raspberry bushes are native to North America and are cultivated in Canada  Info:  Raspberry is a good astringent remedy and useful in formulas for children’s diarrhea.  The herbs most famous application and traditional herbalism and midwives is preparing mothers to be [...]

Ginko

by Jyll Renee Ginkgo Botanical: Ginkgo biloba Common:  Maiden hair tree Habitat:  Ginko biloba is the world’s oldest living species of tree.  Individual trees live has long as over 1000 years.  Ginkgo grows most predominately in the southern and eastern United States, southern France, China and Korea.  The leaves of the tree are used in [...]

Comfrey

Comfrey Botanical name: Symphytum officinale Common name:  knitbone, boneset Habitat:  The leaf and root of comfrey have been employed medicinally for centuries.  Originally from Europe and Western Asia, it is now grown in North America Info:  Comfrey has a long history of use as a topical agent for treating wounds, skin ulcers, bruises, sprains and [...]

Bugleweed

Bugleweed Common name: Water horehound, Carpenters herb, Common Bugle (mint family Labiatae) Botanical name: Lycopus virginicus Habitat:  The leaves and flowers of this plant from the mint family are used medicinally.  Both bugleweed and its European cousin gypsywort (Lycopus europaeus), grow in very wet areas. Info: Used for hyperactive thyroid, sedative, bleeding from the lungs, [...]

Broadleaf Plantain (Plantago major) ~ LuminEarth’s Guide To Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

Plantain (Plantago major) Other Names: Common Plantain, Broadleaf Plantain, Great Plantain, Greater Plantain, Ripple Grass, Plantago Asiatica, Waybread, Waybroad, Snakeweed, Cuckoo’s Bread, Englishman’s Foot, White Man’s Foot, Che Qian Zi (China), Breitwegerich (German), Tanchagem-maior (Portuguese), Llantén común (Spanish), Llantén major (Spanish). Plantain is both medicinal and edible.