GLOSSARY OF WILD HERBSUSING WILD AND COMMON GARDEN HERBS IN YOUR HOME 
HERBs uses 
  Barberry...Leaves used for acne.

  Basil.....Flovoring for soups,salads,meat,fish,poultry

  Basil ....Flavoring for vegetables, soups, salads, and meat,
  poultry and fish.

  Bayberry... Bark and roots as astringent,tonic and stimulant; tea
  for Sore throats, catarrh and jaundice; bark for diarrhea,
  dysentery, sores, boils and carbuncles. Wax for candles.

  Birch ..... Sap for beer; inner bark and twigs for oil of
  winter-green.

  Blackberry. For jams, jellies, preserves; excellent for wines and
  cordials. Black Mustard .. Seeds for pickling and as a condiment.

  Chicory... Root as coffee additive; leaves as salad green if blanched, also 
  for swellings, inflammation and in-flamed eyes. Root for jaundice and general 
  liver ail-ments.

  Chives..... Flavoring for soups and salads; dressing for potatoes.

  Chokecherry ... Favorite of birds, fur and game animals. Dangerous to people 
  if eaten.

  Common juniper...Berries used in flovoring gin. Stimulates the kidney 
  Curly Dock... Useful in treating the itch. 
  Elderberry....Berries for pies and sauces. wine and cordials. 
  Great Burdock ...Used for scaley skin disorders. 
  Hawthorne ...Used as a heart tonic.

  Horseradish... To pickle cucumbers; flavoring for salads, meat and egg dish 
  .For worms in children 
  Jerusalem Artichoke ....... Tuber eaten cooked Or raw. 
  Lambs-Quarters... Foliage as raw greens in salad Or cooked as vegetable; seeds 
  eaten raw and used to make bread. 
  Marjoram ... Goes with green vegetables, turkey, pork, lamb and beef. 
  MayApple ...... Fruit may be eaten as apple only when ripe, otherwise it is 
  poisonous. Roots used as a cathartic and emetic 
  Milkweed...Used for dyeing.Also for treating ringworm, cuts, and sores, to 
  remove corns and calluses. Tea for coughs. 
  Parsley ... Flavoring for salads, soups, casseroles, seafood, and meats. 
  Peppermint ... Young leaves used in green salads and for tea. 
  Plantain ...Indians used leaves for stings and bites. 
  Pokeweed .....Berries for dyeing and leaves as vegetable' Also used to treat 
  glandular swelling and chronic rheumatism. Valued as an emetic. WARNING: 
  Develops toxic properties with maturity. 
  Poplar... Sap layer makes noodle-like addition for soups and stews. Buds, 
  leaves, and bark used for burns, cuts and scratches; 
  Purslane.................. For salads, a potherb and vegetable. juice for dry 
  coughs, shortness of breath. Leaves also for fevers and inflammation of eyes. 
  Red Clover... Blossoms for flavoring cheese Or tobacco; as tea; for bread. 
  Stems, flowers and leaves may be eaten when cooked. 
  Rosemary ... Flavoring for beef, pork, veal, lamb, poultry, soups. Also as tea 
  and wine for stiffness of joints when rubbed externally; tea also for 
  headaches. 
  Sage ... Flavoring for cheese, sausages, fowl and pork. 
  Salsify... Roots used like carrots. 
  Sassafras... Root and bark for flavoring; leaves as a condiment. Bark to make 
  tonic tea. Oil from bark used in drugs. 
  Sow Thistle ... Eaten as a salad plant when young and as potherb later. 
  Staghorn Sumac ... Bark and Sterns for dyeing. Seeds used as astringent gargle 
  and bark as antiseptic. Leaves for skin diseases. 
  Sunflower... Seeds for food and animal feed and for treating bron- chial and 
  pulmonary afflictions, colds and coughs; roots for snakebites and to draw 
  blisters; leaves as tobacco and flowers for dyeing. 
  Sweet Fern ... Leaves in salads, soups and Stews; seeds in salads, herb 
  mixtures; roots eaten raw or boiled. Plant also used to treat poison ivy and 
  as an aromatic; stomachic, carminative and expectorant. 
  Sweet Goldenrod ... Used for dyeing. Blossoms to relieve sore throat, bee 
  Thyme... Seasoning for red meat, poultry, fish, soups, most green vegetables. 
  Tea as antispasmodic, diuretic and stimulant, Oil as local anesthetic and for 
  in#edions and skin irritations. 
  Violet ... Leaves and flowers said to have antiseptic and expec- torant 
  properties. Blossoms used to heal abscesses. 
  Watercress... Fresh plant to treat constipation, coughs, treat head colds and 
  asthma. Pregnant women warned not to eat 
  Wild Ginger ...Roots used like regular ginger roots in cooking. 
  Wild Onion ...Same uses as domestic variety. WARNING: Only har- vest when in 
  bloom because of its similarity to "Death Carnas". The wild onion has a white, 
  rose or purple cluster of blossoms at the top of the stem; the "Death Camas" 
  blossoms have thickened grecn or yellow glands at the base of each flower 
  petal. 
  Wild Rose ...Rose hips provide vitamin C; skin and pulp of rose haws used for 
  jams, jellies and syrups; leaves, roots, flowers and haws for tea. 
  Wild Strawberry ...Berries eaten raw or made into preserves,jams,jellies or 
  sauces. Leaves for tea. lithe leaves are used raw they are poisonous. Stems 
  and stalks eaten raw.

  Willow ...Bark and berries contain prime ingredient in aspirin.
  Bark used to treat diarrhea, stanch bleeding, for

  Wintergreen ... Leaves for tea and candy and chewing gum flavoring;
  also in treatment of rheumatism, boils, swellings and
  inflammation. Tea beneficial as gargle.

  Wilch Hazel ... Bark and leaves used for mouthwash, as douche for
  internal and external hemorrhaging and treatment for
  piles. Leaves and twigs to treat varicose veins,
  diarrhea, tumors, inflammations, bed sores and in-flamed eyes.



       

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