Botanical Name: * Persea americana * Family Lauraceae Common Name: alligator pear. Parts used: Leaves, fruit, bark, seed, peel Description: Native to Central America, the avocado is cultivated mainly for its fruit in tropical and subtropical regions which include Israel, Spain, and South Africa. It is an evergreen tree growing to seventy feet, with dark [...]
Botanical Names: * Family Leguminosae * Astragalus species * A. membranaceus * A. gummifer * A. gracilis * A. adsurgens var. robustior Common Names: * Tragacanth, Gum Dragon, Milk Vetch, Canada Milk Vetch, Membranous Milk Vetch, Slender Milk Vetch, Standing Milk Vetch, Astragali, Huang Qi (Chinese), Beg Kei, Bei Qi, Hwanggi. Parts used: Root, gum-like [...]
Botanical Name: * Tylophora asmatica * Family Asclepidaceae Common Name: * Indian Lobelia Parts used: Leaves Description: Native to the Indian subcontinent, asmatica grows wild on the plains of India. It is a perennial, twining climber with lance-shaped leaves and greenish flowers that produce many flat seeds. The leaves are gathered when the plant is [...]
Botanical Name : # Fraxinus excelsior # Family Oleaceae Common Names: Ash, Bird’s Tongue, European Ash, Common Ash, Weeping Ash, American White Ash, Evergreen Ash, Fresno [Spanish],(Manna Ash, Manna, Flowering Ash, Sweet Manna, Flake Manna. Parts used: Leaves, bark, bark juice Description: The Ash is a common, impressive, deciduous tree reaching heights of 130 feet [...]
Botanical Names: * Cynara scolymus syn. C. cardunculus * Family Compositae Common Names: * Garden Artichoke, Globe Artichoke * Spanish: Alcachofra, Alcachofera, Artichaut * Nahuatl: Quahtlahuitzquilitl Parts used: Flower head, roots, leaves Description: It is a perennial plant growing to five or six feet. It has large, thistle-like leaves, gray-green above and woolly-white underneath, and [...]
Botanical Name: * Maranta arundinaceae * Family Marantaceae Common Names: * Maranta, Bermuda Arrowroot, Sagu, Ararot Parts used: Rhizome Description: Native to the northern regions of South America and the Caribbean islands, the plant is a perennial, growing to six feet. It has creeping rhizomes, many long-stemmed, oval leaves, and flowering stems with clusters of [...]
Botanical Names: * Arnica montana, A. mexicana * Family Compositae Common Names: * Mountain Tobacco, Leopard’s Bane, Wolfsbane, Arnica Flowers, Arnica Root, Camphor Weed, Telegraph Weed * Spanish: Falsa árnica, Arnica del pais * Nahuatl: Tlályetl Parts used: Flowers, rhizomes Description: Arnica montana is a wildflower native to Europe and Western Asia, while the false [...]
Botanical Name Bixa orellana Family Bixaceae Common Names * Lipstick Tree, Achiote, Onoto, Achiotl Ku-xub . Parts Used: Seeds, leaves, root Description Native to the tropical forests in the Americas and West Indies, annatto still grows in Central and South America as well as the Carribbean. It is widely cultivated in similar climatic zones, especially [...]
Botanical Name * Pimpinella anisum * Family Umbelliferae Other Names Aniseseed, Sweet Cumin, Annissamen, Anise Cultivé, Spanish: Anís, Pericón Star Anise, Anís de Estrella (Spanish) Parts Used : seeds. Description An annual growing to two feet, anise puts down a long taproot and produces small white and yellow flowers as well as a fruit that, [...]
Botanical Name: # Family Umbelliferae # Angelica archangelica Other names: European Angelica, Garden Angelica, Masterwort, Alexanders, Archangel, Angel’s Wort, Spanish: Angélica, Raíz de Angélica Dang gui / Dong quai, Chinese Angelica. Parts used: Seeds, leaves, stems, root. Description There are between fifty and sixty varieties that grow worldwide; and each has special healing properties, although [...]
