Used as a soap substitute and as an ingredient in herbal facials, and as a digestant and a meat tenderizer due to its high papain content.   Used to aid digestion, dyspepsia, to remove freckles, to remove worms, relieves allergies because it denaturalizes proteins. 

Common Names: Common Parsley, Garden Parsley, Rock Parsley.

Properties and Uses: Antispasmodic, carminative, diuretic, emmenagogue, expectorant.   The tea is used for dropsy, jaundice, asthma, coughs, suppressed or difficult menstruation.   The juice is used for conjunctivitis, blepharitis (inflammation of the eyelids).   The infusion is used for gallstones.   The tea made from the seeds, in combination with Rue, will kill head lice, wash hair daily, then rub tea into hair and let remain until the next day when it is time to wash the hair again, repeat for 12 days.   <CAUTION>: Do not use parsley if kidney inflammation exists.

This is said to be used during the last few weeks of pregnancy in combination with Cramp Bark to facilitate and easier childbirth.

Properties and Uses: Antispasmodic, diaphoretic, sedative.   Used for insomnia, restlessness, to elevate the mood, hysteria, and nervous headache.    Relaxes for a good night's sleep and won't  give a narcotic hangover as many insomnia remedies will. 

It has an amazing ability to suppress the appetite and has been used in herbal weight-loss supplements.   It has also been included in menstrual cramp formulas, eases fatigue, depression, and confusion.    Helps to rebuild skin cells so is good for skin ailments, and facial products.    It is also makes a good insecticide and leech repellent.

Properties and Uses: Anti-spasmodic, carminative, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, sedative.   Used to induce perspiration, to promote menstruation, taken with brewer's yeast to promote abortion by some people, nausea, nervous ailments, headache, menstrual cramping and pain; externally as a wash for itching, rashes, and skin eruptions.   It is said to have the ability to produce sweating to break up fever from colds and flu when taken hot.   
<CAUTION>: Should not be taken by pregnant women. 

Properties and Uses: Anodyne, antispasmodic, carminative, cholagogue, refrigerant, stomachic, tonic.   The oil or tea is used for nervousness, insomnia, cramping, cough, migraine, poor digestion, nausea, abdominal pains, heartburn, headache, vomiting, as an aphrodisiac, as a salve or bath for itching skin. 

Properties and Uses: Astringent, sedative.   Used for diarrhea, excessive menstruation, hemorrhage, toothache, nervous ailments, hysteria, and convulsions.

The name chimaphila is derived from the Greek words for "winter" and "to love."   This herb has long been made, along with ginger, into beer.

Properties and Uses: Astringent, diaphoretic, diuretic.   Used to dissolve bladder stones, scrofula, rheumatism, dropsy, albuminuria, hematuria, chronic kidney ailments, gonorrhea, as a tea or poultice externally for ulcerous sore, tumors, blisters and other swellings.

Common Names: Lance-leaf Plantain, Buckhorn, Chimney-sweeps, English Plantain, Headsman, Ribgrass, Robwort, Ripplegrass, Snake Plantain, Soldier's Herb.

Properties and Uses: Astringent, demulcent, expectorant, homeostatic.   Used for coughs, hoarseness, gastritis, enteritis, respiratory ailments, to coagulate the blood.   The fresh juice is used for chronic catarrhal ailments, gastro-intestinal problems, and worms; externally for wounds, sores, cuts, scratches, insect bites, hemorrhoids, and dog distemper.    This is an excellent herb for neutralizing poisonings of any kind whether introduced as a bite or sting, including snake bites, or as build up of blood toxins due to disease or poor health.

Properties and Uses: Carminative, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant.   Used for colds, flu, and all chest problems, and of course pleurisy,  as it not only is an expectorant, but it is said to remoisten the lungs to make expectoration easier.   It is said it will also cause sweating to break up fevers from colds and flu.

Properties and Uses: A slow emetic and purgative with narcotic properties.   As an alterative it is used in chronic rheumatism and granular conjunctivitis.    Used for  ringworm  and other skin diseases, causing at first smarting and heat which will then blister if left on too long.    Used for headache, leucorrhea, endrometriosis,  and hemorrhoids, and as a poultice to quickly bring boils to a head.    Excellent for cleansing the lymphatic glandular system of the entire body, for laryngitis, tonsillitis, cough, mastitis, cancerous skin ulcers and tumors, and mumps.

The bark has been used to make alcoholic beverages.

Properties and Uses: Anodyne, diaphoretic, irritant, stimulant.   Use for toothache, as a wash for itching, rheumatism, stomach ailments, flatulence and poor digestion. 

When water is added to psyllium seed husks it will swell to form a gelatinous mass.   This is used as a thickener in foods, and as an ingredient in over-the-counter constipation remedies.   Used as a bowel regulator for maintenance, or sluggish digestion.