Winter’s Bark Botanical Name: Drimys winteri Other Names: Pepper Bark, Winter’s Cinnamon, Wintera Aromatica, Wintera Casca-de-anta, Canelo, Aktarcin, True Winter’s Bark, Drimys chilensis, Drymis de Winter. Habitat: Antarctic America, southern parts of South America, along the Straits of Magellan and north to Chile, Brazil. Parts Used: Bark Key Components: An inodorous acrid resin, pale yellow [...]
Witch Hazel Botanical Name: Hamamelis virginiana Other Names: Hamamelis, Hazel Nut, Snapping Hazel/Hazelnut, Spotted Alder/Elder, Striped Alder/Elder, Tobacco Wood, Winterbloom, Bending Elder, Agua Maravilla (Spanish), winter bloom, hamamelis water. Habitat: The plant is found throughout most of North America. Key Components: (a) Leaves tannins (8-10%), flavonoids, bitter principle, volatile oil (b) Bark tannins, resins, gallic [...]
Wormseed Botanical Name: Chenopodium ambrosioides syn. Other Names: Teloxys ambrosioides, Wormseed Oil, Mexican Tea, American Wormseed, Jesuit’s Tea, Ipazote, Pazote, Levant, Santonica, Sea Wormwood, Chenopode, Epazote, Feuilles A Vers, Herbe A Vers, Meksika Cayi, Semen Contra, Semin Contra, Simon Contegras, Welriekende Ganzenvoet. Habitat: The plant is indigenous to Iran, Turkestan, and the Kirghizin Steppes around [...]
Wintergreen Name : Wintergreen Botanical : Pyrola secunda Other Names :Aromaticwintergreen, Boxberry, Canadatea, Checkerberry, Chink, Deerberry, Groundberry, Grouseberry, Hillberry, Ivoryplum, Mountaintea, Partridgeberry, Redberrytea, Redpollom, Spiceberry, Spicywintergreen, Springwintergreen, Teaberry, Waxcluster Family : Pyrolaceae Parts Used : Leaves Habitat : Grows in woods and clearings, under large trees and shrubs, on sandyacid soils, from Newfoundland to Manitoba [...]
Waythorn Name : Waythorn Other Names :Rhamnus frangula L., Alder buckthorn, Alder dogwood, Arrow-wood, Black alder dogwood, Black alder tree, Black dogwood, European black alder, European buckthorn, Persian berries, Rhamnus cathartica L., Common buckthorn, Purging buckthorn, Waythorn Parts Used : Rhamnus frangula L. Bark, fruit Rhamnus cathartica L. Fruit Habitat : Rhamnus frangula L. Found [...]
Walnut Name : Walnut Botanical : Juglans nigra Other Names :Carya. Jupiter’s Nuts. Akhrote. Family : Juglandaceae Parts Used : Leaves, bark. Habitat : According to Dr. Royle Juglans regia extends from Greece and Asia Minor, over Lebanon and Persia, probably all along the Hindu-Kush to the Himalayas. It is abundant in Kashmir, and is [...]
Wahoo Name : Wahoo Other Names :Arrow-wood, Bitterash, Burningbush, Euonymus, Indianarrow, Indianarrowroot, Indianarrow wood, Indianroot, Pegwood, Spindletree, Strawberrytree, Wauhoo, Whahow Parts Used : Bark and root bark Habitat : Found in moist woods and along riverbanks in the eastern United States;as far west as Montana and Texas. Ontario to Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas,Oklahoma to North Dakota. [...]
