Specific Herbs and Their Uses - Part 2

Garlic
Garlic is one of the few herbs that have universal recognition and uses.  It stimulates the activity of the digestive organs.  It is used to emulsify the cholesterol and loosen it from the arterial walls.  Proven useful in asthma and whooping cough, it is also valuable in intestinal infections and effective in reducing high blood pressure.

Gentian Root
An excellent tonic and blood purifier.  Treats the liver, worms, fever and colds.  It is also very effective for snake bites due to it's equality with quinine.

Ginger
Useful in all painful spasms of the bowels and stomach.  Taken hot, it is excellent for suppressed menstruation.  A catalyst from the pelvic area down.

Ginseng
The root is used.  Excellent for low blood pressure.  Increases the capillary circulation of the brain and also helps with nervous exhaustion.  Useful for chest troubles, colds stomach and lungs.

Golden Seal
Use the root.  A powerful agent used in treating ulcers, diphtheria, tonsillitis and spinal meningitis.  It is one of the best substitutes for quinine.  It acts as an insulin.

Gotu Kola
Contains remarkable rejuvenating properties.  Is known as "The Secret of Perpetual Youth."  It strengthens the heart, memory and brain.

Hawthorne
Known as the heart herb.  It is used to dilate the coronary blood vessels in a mild way and restore the heart muscle wall.

Henna
Use the leaves and root.  Effective treatment for the liver and skin infections.

Hops
Has a remarkable relaxing effect on the central nervous system.  It is also effective for anemia and restoring the appetite.

Horehound
A stimulant, use to treat colds coughs and sore throat.

Horsetail
Contains a great deal of silica, which helps keep the elasticity in the skin.  Also an effective diuretic and helps with kidney stones.

Hydrangea
Use dried roots, rhizomes.  The greatest use for Hydrangea is for treating enlarged prostate glands.  It is also effective for urinary infections like cystitis, including stones.

Hyssop
A body cleanser it is also effective for nervousness and recovering from colds.

Juniper Berries
Excellent for kidney and bladder problems relating to pancreas and adrenal glands.  Works well for dropsy and leucorrhea.

Kelp
As we mentioned earlier, we will include descriptions that are not necessarily herbs.  This is one of them.  Kelp is excellent for the thyroid gland and goiters.  Has a remedial and normalizing action on the sensory nerves.  Good for nails and hair and cleanses radiation from the body.

Knapweed
Effective treatment for internal bleeding and swollen glands.

Lavendar
Use the flowers.  This is a beautiful herb and is widely used.  Many do not realize that it is an effective treatment for headaches related to stress.  Also good for depression.

Liquorice
Natural cortisone.  Used for hypoglycemia, adrenal glands and stress.  Also for coughs and chest complaints, gastric ulcers and throat conditions.

Lobelia
The most powerful relaxant.  Reduces palpitations of the heart.  Strengthens muscle action.  Fine treatment for fevers, pneumonia, meningitis, pleurisy, hepatitis and peritonitis.

Marshmallow
Excellent to bathe sore and inflamed eyes.  Also good for lung trouble, hoarseness, catarrh, diarrhea and dysentery and all kidney diseases.  Also good for a vaginal douche.

Milkweed
Can be used to increase the secretion of bile from the liver and gall-bladder.  Use as a liver tonic and useful for gallstones, stomach and urine.

Marigold
Use the flowers.  Good for the skin, and the heart.

Marjoram
Effective for the treatment of nervous disorders.  Also good for the digestion.

Mugwort
Effective treatment for the stomach and for gout.

Mullein
Very effective use for respiratory conditions like hard coughing, bronchitis and hay fever.

Myrrh Gum
Valuable for bronchial and lung diseases.  Excellent for pyorrhea.  Removes halitosis or bad breath when taken internally.  Excellent remedy for ulcers, piles and hemorrhoids.

Nettle
The Nettle is another one of those "universal" plants.  They are found all over the world and they strengthen the entire body.  Rheumatism, arthritis, eczema, nosebleeds, arteries, lessen blood pressure are just a few applications.  Nettles contain calcium, chlorine, iron, potassium, silicon, sodium and sulphur.

Oregon Grape
Use the root and rhizome.  Similar to both Golden Seal and Barberry.  Main use is in the treatment of chronic, scaly skin conditions such as psoriasis and eczema.  Also effective for the liver, gall bladder and as a laxative for chronic constipation.

Pansy
Pansies contain Vitamins A, B and C, niacin, chlorine, iron, magnesium, potassium, silicon, and trace minerals.  Effective for treatment of the bladder and kidneys.

Papaya
Aids digestion.  Effective in relieving allergies by its ability to denaturize proteins.

Parsley
Known to be rich in Vitamin B and potassium, and tumerous cells cannot multiply in potassium.  An excellent diuretic and one of the most excellent herbs for gallbladder as it expels gallstones.

Passion Flower
Used as a sedative.  Gives a calming effect helping headaches, neuralgia, hysteria and high blood pressure caused by mental attitude.

Pennyroyal
This is a valuable remedy for women during menopause.  It should not be used by pregnant women because it will bring on suppressed menstruation.  Also good for fevers, colds and phlegm in chest and lungs.

Peppermint
Combats flatulence, it is used to relieve colic, nausea and the desire to vomit.  Also good for travel sickness.

Plaintain
Will stop bleeding from wounds, treats eczema and burns.  Also good for coughs and mild bronchitis. 

Pleurisy Root
Effective against respiratory infections where it assists expectoration.  Use to treat pleurisy, pneumonia and influenza (flu).

Psyllium
Excellent colon cleanser, cleans out compacted pockets on the colon.  Creates bulk and relieves auto-intoxication.

Raspberry
As a tea, it is excellent for morning sickness in pregnancy.  An aid to preventing miscarriage, it strengthens the uterine walls prior to giving birth.

Red Clover
A good blood purifier.  It is an antidote to cancer, containing lime, silica and other earthy salts.  Relaxing to nerves and entire system.

Rhubarb Root
Very good to increase the muscular action of the bowels.  Also will relieve headaches.

Rose Hips
Contains a great deal of vitamin C, ranging from 10 to 100 times greater than any other known food.  Therefore, it is used as an infection fighter.  Also helps with physical stresses and pollution.   Also contains Vitamins, A, B1, B2, E, K, P, niacin, calcium, iron, phosphorous. 

Rosemary
Rosemary is a circulatory and nerve stimulant.  Has a calming effect on the digestion as well as headache or depression.

Rue
Effective treatment for nervousness, hysteria, worms, convulsions, joints and gout.

St. Johns Wort
Taken internally, has a sedative and pain reducing effect.  Use in treatment of neuralgia, anxiety, tension and similar problems.  Good for menopausal irritations.

Saffron
A natural hydrochloric acid (utilizes sugar of fruits and oils), thus helping arthritics get rid of the uric acid which holds the calcium deposited in the joints.  Also reduces lactic acid build up.   Good for measles, skin, scarlet fever and perspiration.

Sage
Sage tea makes an excellent gargle for ulcerated throat or mouth.  Stops bleeding of wounds and clean old ulcers and sores.  Will expel worms.  Good for spermatorrhea (involuntary sexual emissions.)  Also for liver and kidney troubles.

Sarsaparilla Root
Eliminates poisons from the blood and purifies the system from infections.  Is dependably useful in rheumatism, gout, skin eruptions, ringworm, scrofula, internal inflammation, colds and catarrh.

Sassafras Bark
Often called a spring medicine to purify the blood and cleanse the entire system.  Valuable in colic and all skin diseases and eruptions.

Saw Palmetto
Useful for the treatment of asthma, bronchitis, colds and is also a sedative.  Also great for reproductive organs.

Senna
Most effective as a strong laxative.

Skullcap
Is more effective than quinine and is not as harmful as quinine is.  Good in neuralgia, aches and pains. It is also one of the best nerve tonics.  Reduces high blood pressure, heart conditions and disorders of the central nervous systems such as St. Vitus dance, shaking palsy, hydrophobia and epilepsy.

Slippery Elm Bark
Use the inner portion of the bark.  Vary valuable for mucus inflammation of the lungs, bowels, stomach, kidneys and bladder.  Will sustain ulcerated and cancerous stomach when nothing else will.

Squaw Vine
Excellent to take during pregnancy.  Used for uterine problems, urinary troubles and other female complaints.

Tansy
Can be useful for treatment of nervous disorders, worms  and jaundice.  MUST BE AVOIDED DURING PREGNANCY.

Thyme
Has a high content of oil.  Good for internal use for coughs, throat and asthma as well as external use for infected wounds.

Uva Ursi
Very useful in diabetes and all kinds of kidney troubles.  Excellent remedy for piles, hemorrhoids, spleen, liver, pancreas and gonorrhea.   Also good where there are mucus discharges from the bladder with pus and blood.

Valerian
A nerve tonic.  Used for epileptic fits and St. Vitus dance, nervous derangement or irritations.  Excellent for children with measles and scarlet fever.  Promotes sleep.

Vervain
Also known as Wild Hyssop.  Will strengthen the nervous system while easing depression and melancholia.  Good for fever and best for colds.

Wahoo
A primary liver herb, it acts to remove congestion from the liver allowing free flow of bile thereby helping the digestive process.  Also used in the treatment of jaundice and bladder problems.  Will also relive constipation.

White Oak Bark
Good for varicose veins.  Used in douches and enemas for internal tumors and swellings.  One of the best remedies for piles and hemorrhoids, hemorrhages or any trouble of the rectum.  It normalized the liver, kidneys and spleen.

Wild Carrot
Also known as Queen Annes Lace, Wild Carrot is a diuretic, that acts as a urinary antiseptic which is why it is a treatment for cystitis, kidney stones, prostatitis.  Also effective for gout and rheumatism.

Witch Hazel
Use bark and leaves.  A good tonic, it aids in treating menstruation, lungs, uterus, piles, circulation, tumors eyes and is effective as a douche.

Wood Betony
Excellent healing herb for bronchitis, coughs and colds.  Also good for kidney and bladder.  This herb helps to correct a bed-wetting problem.

Wormwood
A good tonic for treating liver, fever, and digestion.

Yarrow
A tonic for run-down conditions and indigestion.  If taken freely at the beginning of a cold, it will break it up in 24 hours.  Has soothing and healing action on mucus membranes.

Yellow Dock
Mineral rich plant, especially rich in iron.  Excellent as a blood purifier and tones up the entire system.

Yucca
Hope for arthritics.  The extract from the plant has been used with surprising success on arthritis and rheumatism sufferers.

On the next page we will talk about Herbal Remedies For Specific Ailments, covering remedies beginning with A to G.