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False Unicorn Root

Chamaelirium luteum

Common Names: Drooping Star Wort, Helonias, Fairywand, Blazing Star, Colicroot, Devil's-bit.

The North American Native Women used this to prevent miscarriage. Early American settlers used it as a pain reliever, diuretic, and uterine disorders. It stimulates the uterine muscles to aid childbirth, and prevent vomiting.

Fennel Seed

Foeniculum vulgare

Common Names: Large Fennel, Sweet Fennel, Wild Fennel.

Properties and Uses: antispasmodic, aromatic, carminative, diuretic, expectorant, galactagogue, stimulant, stomachic. Used for stomach and intestinal problems, to arouse appetite, relieve colic, abdominal cramping, flatulence, expel mucous accumulations, as a gargle for hoarseness and coughing, to stimulate the flow of milk in nursing mothers, and as an eyewash for irritations and eyestrain.

Fenugreek

Trigonella foenum-graecum

Common Names: Bird's Foot. Greek Hay-seed.

Properties and Uses: Expectorant, mucilaginous, restorative. The decoction is used to strengthen patients suffering from tuberculosis or recovering from an illness, bronchitis, fevers, as a gargle for sore throat, and as an aphrodisiac. The pulverized seeds are used as a poultice for gouty pains, neuralgia, sciatica, swollen glands, wounds, furuncles, fistulas, tumors, sores, and skin irritations.

Feverfew

Tanacetum parthenium

Common Names: American foxglove, Bushy Gerardia, False Foxglove, Fern-leaved False Foxglove, Lousewort.

Properties and Uses: Carminative, emmenagogue, purgative, stimulant, tonic. It is used for colic, flatulence, indigestion, colds, and alcoholic delirium tremors. Also used to reduce fevers, nervousness, hysteria, and low spirits, headache and at the onset of migraine headaches, and to promote menstrual flow.

Flax Seed

Linum usitatissimum

Common Names: Common Flax, Flax Seed, Linseed, Lint Bells, Winterlien.

Properties and Uses: Demulcent, emollient, purgative. The decoction is used for coughs, catarrh, respiratory ailments, and digestive and urinary ailments. Linseed oil is used to eliminate gallstones. An old herbal reports to 'take 1 1\2-2 T. linseed oil, lie down on your left side for 30 minutes.' The whole seed are used for constipation. The ground seeds are used as a poultice for rheumatism.

Fo-ti Root

Polygonum multiflorum

Common Names: He Shou Wu, Ho Sho Wu.

Fo-ti has been one of the most widely utilized herbs in Chinese medicine for thousands of years. It is said to have rejuvenating and longevity abilities to prevent premature aging, and retain vigor and strength. It is also used extensively for anemia, constipation, dizziness, and infertility. It is use as an anti-cancer herb, to lower blood cholesterol levels, and to prevent heart disease.

It is said that Fo-ti will restore the original color of graying hair and prevent hair loss. The literal translation from Chinese, 'Sho-Wu' means "a head full of black hair". It nourishes the glandular, nervous, and skeletal systems, as well as the kidneys and liver. It is for all these things that Fo-ti is used to improve health in general, increase stamina, and raise the bodies resistance to disease. It is said this herb can and should be taken on a long-term basis.

Frankincense

Boswellia carteri

Common Names: Olibanum

Frankincense was used once as an internal stimulant, but is seldom used now in western alternative medicine. It was mentioned by Pliny as an antidote to poison hemlock. It was recommended in the 10th century, by Avicenna, for fevers, dysentery, tumors, ulcers, and vomiting. It is still used in China today for leprosy, as it was used in Biblical times. The inhalation of a steam infusion is said to relieve laryngitis, and bronchitis.

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