| Specific herbs for various problems |
| BACKACHE: Nettle, pennyroyal, tansy, uva-ursi, bucku, wood betony, BED SORES: Plantain, balm og Gilead, bayberry bark, bloodroot, witch hazal, golden seal. BED-WETTING: Plantain, St. John's-wort, buchu, cornsilk, cubeb berries, fennel seed, milkweek, wood betony, mullein, willow, hops, fennel. BLADDER: Juniper berries, parsley, uva-ursi, dandelion, chamomile. BLEEDING: Self-heal, mullein (stops bleeding from the lungs), shepherd's purse (for lungs, stomach, kidneys, and bowels), wild alum root, golden seal, blackberry leaves, comfrey, bayberry, uva-ursi, yellow dock. BLOOD POISONING AND INFECTIONS: Chickweed, plantain, echinacea, golden seal, myrrh, burdock, bloodroot, water pepper (smartweed) and charcoal (poultice), golden seal. BLOOD PURIFIER: Yellow dock, dandelion, burdock, licorice, chaparral, red clover, barberry, cascara sagrada, yarrow, sarsaparilla, oregon grape, buckthorn, prickly ash, peach leaves, stillingia. BOILS AND CARBUNCLES: Balm (poultice), powdered bayberry bark (poultice), burdock, chickweed, comfrey, coral, flaxseed, hops, lobelia, origanum, slippery elm, sorrel, St. john's-wort, turkey corn, white clover, white water lily, wintergreen, wood sage, echinacea, birch (bark or small twigs), plantain, wild cherry bark. BONE KNITTER: Comfrey, golden seal, slippery elm, aloe vera. BONES, TEETH, AND CALCIUM DEFICIENCY: Comfrey, horsetail, oat straw, lobelia, alfalfa, irish moss, white oak, mullein, black walnut, marshmallow, queen of the meadow, wormwood, scullcap. BOWEL TROUBLE: Water pepper, white pond lily, wintergreen, dandelion, wood sanicle, bethroot, chickweed, myrre, witch hazel, echinacea, bayberry bark, birch, bitterroot, blue violet, caraway seeds (expels gas), catnip (for acid), sage, sassafras, slippery elm, spearmint. BREASTS (SORE< SWOLLEN< OR CAKED): Comfrey, parsley, St. John's wort and poke root for treating caked breasts. BRIGHT"S (KIDNEY) DISEASE: Golden seal (combined with peach leaves, queen of the meadow, clover, and corn silk), saw palmetto berries, uva-ursi, wild alum root, yarrow, peach (leaves, blossoms, or twigs), peppermint. BRONCHITIS: Chickweed, coltsfoot, cubeb berries, golden seal, lungwort, mullein, myrrh, white pine, pleurisy root, sanicle, saw palmetto berries, skunk cabbage, slippery elm, white pond lily, yerba santa, bloodroot, ginger, blue violet, bethroot, red root, red sage, elecampane, horehound, black cohosh. BRUISES AND CUTS: Bugleweed (for internal bruises), comfrey, hyssop, lobelia, mugwort, giant Solomon's seal, St. John's-wort, bittersweet (combined with camomile as an ointment), pennyroyal, tansy, balm of Gilead,burnet. BURNS: Aloes, bittersweet, burdock, calamus, chickweed, elder, poplar, onions 9bruised), comfrey. Immerse burned part in very cold water and keep the water cold by changing or adding ice or more cold water. Keep the burned part covered with water until all of the heat is drawn out, and no blisters will form. |
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