Yellow Dock Botanical Name:Rumex crispus Other Names:Yellow Dock, Curled dock, Curly-leaf Dock, Rumex, Sad Dock; Spanish: Lengua de Vaca, Yerba Colorado, Raiz Colorado, sour dock Parts Used:Aerial parts, leaves, roots Key Components: anthraquinones (up to 4% nepodin, emodin, chrysaphanol, and physcion), tannins, oxylates, volatile oil, vitamins (A, B, and C), minerals (especially manganese, phosphorus, calcium, [...]
Yu-zhu Name : Yu-zhu Other Names 
ropberry, Heshou wu (Chinese name), Mahmeda, Meda, Sealroot, sealwort, Yu-zhu(Chinese name) Parts Used : Root, rhizome Habitat :Grows in rich woods and thickets in eastern North America, Europe,and Asia. Connecticut to Florida; Texas, Nebraska to Michigan. Description :Solomon’s seal is a perennial plant; the thick, horizontal, scarredrootstock produces 1 [...]
Yuma Name : Yuma Other Names :Aluka, Chinaroot, Colicroot, Devil’sbones, Mexicanwild yam, Pleurisyroot, Rheumatismroot, Shan-yao(Chinese name), Yuma Parts Used : Dried root (rhizome) Habitat : Grows in the United States from Rhode Island to Minnesota, Floridaand Texas. Twining in thickets, over fences, over trees and shrubsin the woods, in hedges and over bushes, the thin, [...]
Yueh-kuei Name : Yueh-kuei Other Names :Gui(Chinese name), Twak, Yueh-kuei Parts Used : Bark, oil obtained from bark and leaves Habitat : Found growing around marshes. Description : The dried inner bark of the branches of a small, tropical, evergreenlaurel tree. The bark is peeled off and as the pieces are dried, theycurl up into [...]
Name : Yucca Other Names :Adam’sneedle, Soapweed, Spanishneedle Parts Used : Roots for both Habitat : Yucca filamentosa L.: Sandy soils in southern New Jersey toGeorgia. Cultivated elsewhere. Yucca glauca: Dry soils. Iowa to Texas; Missouri to NorthDakota. Description : Yucca filamentosa L.: A perennial, to 9 feet in flower. Leavesin a rosette; stiff, spine-tipped, [...]
Yohimbe: An evergreen tree, it grows to a height of 30m with a spread of 8m. The stem is erect and branching, the leaves are oval, acuminate and about 10cm long; the seeds are small winged slivers, almost paper thin. A native of the rainforests of Nigeria, Cameroon and the Congo, it prefers rich soils [...]
Name : Yin-hsing Other Names :Ginkgonut, MaidenhairTree, Ginkgo biloba, Yin-hsing(Chinese name) Parts Used : Leaves, nuts (seeds) Habitat : Native to China and Japan and closely related to conifers. Cultivatedin the United States. Description : Theginkgo is a large, picturesque tree that grows up to 100 feet,with attractive fan-shaped and bright green slightly ruffles leaves.Seeds [...]
Name : Yerba Santa Botanical : Eriodictyon glutinosum Other Names :Bear’sweed, Consumptive’sweed, Gumbush, Gumplant (Grindelia robusta L.), Mountainbalm, Tarweed Family : Hydrophyllaceae Parts Used : Leaves Habitat : Follow the bees and find santa yerba on dry mountain slopes and ridgesin the coastal ranges and up into the foothills of the Sierra Nevadafrom Monterey to [...]
Yellow Cedar Name : Yellow Cedar OtherNames : Arbor-vitae, Falsewhite cedar, Thuja, Treeof life, Yellowcedar Parts Used : Leaves, inner bark, leaf oil and seeds. Habitat : A native of the U.S. and Canada, this tree does best in moist, sandyloam. In a dry situation, it will suffer from both heat and cold.Found in swamps; [...]
Yasti Madhu Name : Yasti Madhu Other Names :Chineselicorice, Gancao (Chinese name), Kan-ts’ao, Kuo-lao, Licoriceroot, Ling-t’ung, Liquorice, Lu-ts’ao, Mei-ts’ao, Mi-kan, Mi-ts’ao, Sweetlicorice, Sweetwood, YastiMadhu Parts Used : Root, dried Habitat : Found wild in southern and central Europe and parts of Asia, andcultivated elsewhere. Grows abundantly in Northern China, Mongolia,especially from the region of Kokonor. [...]
