Qing Hao Latin Name: Artemisia Annua, Other Names: qing hao su, qinghaosu, quinghao, thanh hao, Sweet Wormwood, Sweet Annie, Annual Wormwood. Please see the page Sweet Annie for description of Herb Qing Hao
Other Names: Queen’s Root, Silver Leaf, ,Sapium Sylvaticum, Yaw Root, Stillingia sylvatica, Stillingia, queen’s delight, queen’s root, silverleaf, nettle potato, marcory, cockup-hat, Indian flea root. Parts Used : Root. Taste/smell: Acrid. Tendencies: Stimulating A perennial herb, with an angled glabrous stem, growing to 4 feet high, with a milky sap. The leaves are sessile, leathery [...]
Botanical Name: Asperula cynanchica Other Names: Herb thin, golden straw, grass piss, nuset of grass, gravel grass, serpentine, espartet, Occitan: Erbo the esquilenço. Cast. Asperillo flower red Asperula, tosquera grass, the grass inflammation, h, of the prostate, golden rod. Vasc eskinancia. Italian: comune Stellina. HABITAT: Ononido Rosmarinetea. It grows on calcareous soils. Botanical curiosities: The [...]
Quassia Name : Quassia Botanical : Picraena excelsa Other Names :Bitterash, Bitterbark, Bitterquassia, Bitterwood, Loftyquassia, Quassiabark, Quassiawood. Family : Simarubeae Parts Used : Wood, bark Habitat : A native of tropical America and the West Indies. A small tree nativeof Surinam and Guiana being introduced to the West Indies. Description : A tree growing 50 [...]
