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Alfalfa-
Also Known As: Buffalo Grass, Chilean Clover
Allspice- AKA: Clove Pepper, Pimento, Pimenta, Jamaican Pepper
Aloe Vera -
AKA: Aloe
Vera, aloe, burn plant, lily of the desert, elephant’s gall
Agrimony -AKA: Church Steeples. Cockeburr.
Sticklewort
Anise-
AKA:Aniseed, Sweet Cumin
Angelica -
AKA:
Guardian Angel herb
Arnica - AKA:
Arnica flowers, Arnica root, Common arnica, leopard's bane, Mexican
arnica, Mountain arnica, Mountain daisy, Mountain tobacco,
Sneezewort, and Wolfsbane.
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Balm
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AKA: Sweet Balm, Lemon Balm,
Melissa, Balm
mint, Bee balm, Blue balm, Cure-all, Dropsy plant, Garden balm,
Honey plant
Balm of Gilead
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AKA:
Poplar buds, Balsam Poplar, Balm of Gilead,
Mecca balsam, Canary Balm,
Willow Poplar Buds
Balmony -
AKA: Chelone. Snake-head. Turtle-head. Turtle-bloom. Shellflower.
Salt-rheum Weed. Bitter Herb. Chelone Obliqua. Glatte. White Chelone.
The Hummingbird Tree
Barberry -
AKA: berberis, jaundice berry,
Pepperidge-bush,
Mahonia, Epine Vinette, Common
Barberry
Basil-AKA: Sweet
Basil, St. Josephwort
Bay- AKA: Sweet
Bay, Green Bay, Laurel, Grecian or Roman Laure
Bearberry -
AKA: Arberry, Bearberry, Bear's-grape,
Crowberry, Foxberry, Hog Cranberry, Kinnikinnick, Mealberry,
Mountain Box, Mountain Cranberry, Red Bearberry, Sagackhomi,
Sandberry, Upland Cranberry, Uva Ursi
Beth Root - AKA:
BIRTHROOT, COUGHROOT, GROUND LILY, INDIAN BALM, INDIAN SHAMROCK,
PLANT, PURPLE TRILLIUM, SNAKEBITE, SQUAW ROOT, TRILLIUM PENDULUM,
WAKE-ROBIN
Betony -
AKA:
Stachys officinalis, Lousewort, Bishopwort,
Common Hedge-Nettle, and Spiked Betony.
Bergamot
Bistort -
AKA:
Adderwort, Dragonwort, Easter Giant, English Serpentary, Fleece
Flower, Knotweed, Oderwort, Osterick, Patience Dock, Red Legs,
Smartweed, Snakeweed, Sweet Dock, Twice Writhen
Black Catechu -
AKA: Catechu or Cutch
Black Cohosh -
AKA:
black snakeroot,
bugbane, cimicifuga, and squawroot
Blood Root -
AKA: Indian Paint. Tetterwort.
Red Pucoon. Red Root. Paucon. Coon Root. Snakebite. Sweet Slumber
Blue Cohosh - AKA:
Beechdrops, blueberry, blue ginseng, papoose root, squaw root,
yellow ginseng.
Blue Flag - AKA: Blue Iris,
Flag Lily, Fleur-de-lis, Flower de-luce, Iris, Liver Lily, Poison
Flag, Snake Lily, Water Flag, Wild Iris
Bogbean -
AKA: Buckbean. Marsh Trefoil. Water
Trefoil. Marsh Clover
Boldo - AKA: Peumus boldus, Boldea fragrans, Boldine, Boldoak Boldea, Boldo
Folium, Boldus, Boldus Boldus, Peumus fragrans
Boneset -
AKA:
Thoroughwort
Borage
Broom -
AKA:
Scotch
Broom, Irish Broom, Broomtops, Besom, Broom, broom tops
Buchu - AKA: Bookoo,
buku, bucku and bucco
Buckthorn -
AKA:
Common buckthorn, purging buckthorn,
waythorn
Burdock -
AKA:
Cocklebur, Gobo root, Clot bur, Burr Seed
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Calamus - -AKA:
Sweet Flag Root
Caraway - Also Known As:
Carum
Calendula
Cardamon - AKA: Elettaria
Cascara Sagrade -
AKA: Cascara,
sacred bark, and chittem bark
Catmint
Celandine, Greater-
AKA: Common Celandine. Garden Celandine
Celery Seed -
AKA: Garden Celery, Smallage, Wild
Celery
Centaury -
AKA:
Bitter Bloom, Bitter Clover,
Bitter Herb, Bitter-Rose, Centory, Chironia, Fel Terrae, Feverwort,
Gentian, Lesser Centaury,Red Centaury, Steps of Christ,
Thousand Golden Leaves, Wild Succory
Centella
Catnip - Also Known As:
Catnep, Catswort, Catmint, Field Balm
Cayenne - AKA:Hot Pepper, Chili Pepper,
Paprika, and Red Pepper
Centaury -
AKA: Red Century, Filwort,
Centory, Christ's Ladder, feverwort
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Mad Dog’s Herb, Dog Bite Herb,
Chamomile - AKA: Camomile, Anthemis, Matricaria, Ground Apple
Chaste Tree -
AKA: Vitex, Monk's Pepper and Wild
Pepper
Chicory -
Also Known As: Endive, Chickory
Chickweed -
AKA:
Common Chickweeds, Star
Chickweed, Mouse-ear Chickweed
Cinnamon -
AKA:Ceylon Cinnamon, Saigon
Cinnamon, Cassia
Cleaver - AKA:
Goosegrass, Barweed,
Catchweed, Everlasting Friendship, Gia Mara, Goosebill, Grip
Grass, Hayruff, Hedge Clivers, Hedgeheriff, Loveman, Mutton Chops,
Robin-run-in-the-Grass, Scratweed, Sticky-willy, Stickywilly, Zhu
Yang Yang,
Clove - AKA: Caryophyllus, Clavos
Coltsfoot -
AKA:
Tussilago farfara, Horsehoof, Coughwort, Fieldhove, Bullsfoot,
Cleats, Clayweed, Tusilago, and AssÍs Foot
Comfrey -
AKA: Knitbone, common comfrey, symphytum,
blackwort, healing herb and bruisewort
Condurango -
AKA: Eagle vine
Coriander -AKA:
Cilantro, Chinese Parsley
Corn Silk - AKA: Maize
silk, Mealie Silk and Yu mi shu
Couchgrass -
AKA:
Cutch, Dog Grass,
Durfa Grass, Quack Grass, Quick Grass, Scutch, Triticum, Twitch
Grass, Witchgrass
Cranberry -
Also Known As: N/A (Juice)
Cranesbill - AKA:
Alumroot, American Cranesbill, American Kino
Root, Chocolate Flower, Crowfoot, Dove's Foot, Hardy Geranium,
Rockweed, Sailor's Knot, Shameface, Spotted Cranesbill, Storkbill,
Wild Geranium
Cramp Bark - AKA: Cranberry
Bush, Cranberry Tree, Guelder Rose, Pembina, Pimbina, Whitten Tree
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Damiana -
AKA:
Mexican Damiana
Dandelion - AKA:Wild Endive, Lion's Tooth, Piss-in-bed
Devil's Claw -
AKA: Grapple plant
Dill - Also Known As: N/A
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Echinacea - AKA:
Coneflower, Purple Coneflower
Elecampane -
AKA: Scabwort. Elf Dock. Wild Sunflower.
Horseheal. Velvet Dock
Elder -AKA: American Elder , Sweet Elder and Common Elder
Ephedra - AKA: Joint fir,
ma huang, Mormon tea, whorehouse tea and shrubby horsetail
Eucalyptus - AKA::
Gum Tree, Blue Gum, Australian Fever Tree
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False Unicorn Root -
AKA: Blazing Star, Devil's Bit, Helonias Root
Fennel - AKA: Finocchio, Carosella, Florence Fennel
Feverfew - AKA: Ferbrifuge Plant, Wild Quinine, Bachelor's Button
Figwort -
AKA: Crowdy Kit. Fiddlewood.
Fiddler. Brownwort. Bishops' Leaves, Water Betony.
Fringetree Bark -
AKA: Chionanthus Virginica,
Old ManÍs Beard, Poison Ash, and Snowdrop Tree
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Garlic - AKA:
Stinking Rose, Heal-all, Poor Man's Treacle
Gentian -
AKA: Yellow gentian root, yellow
gentian or bitterwort TYPES: (Autumn, Cross-Leaved, Field,
Five-Flowered, Japanese, Marsh, Spring, Yellow)
Ginger - AKA:
Asian, African, American Ginger
Ginkgo - AKA:
Maidenhair Tree
Ginseng -
AKA: Root of Immortality, Man Root, Life Root, Seng Seng
Goat's Rue - AKA: French
Lilac
Golden Seal -
AKA:
Yellow Root
Golden
Rod - AKA:
Virgaurea, Herba
Solidaginus
Gravel
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AKA:
Gravelweed, Joe-Pye Weed, Queen of the Meadow, purple boneset,
trumpet weed, kidney root
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Ivy - AKA:
Alehoof, Cat’s foot,
Creeping Charlie, Gill-over-the-ground, Gillrun, Hay maids, hedge
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Guaiacum -
AKA:
Guaiac, Lignum vitae, pockwood
Gotu kola
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Hawthorn -
AKA: Haw, May Blossom, Maybush, May Tree, Quick-set, Shan-cha
Hops -
AKA: Humulus
Horehound -
AKA: Marrubium, Hoarhound, White
Horehound
Horse Chestnut - AKA: bark
bongay, konker tree, common horse chestnut and buckeye
Hydrangea -
AKA: Common Hydrangea, Wild Hydrangea, Seven Barks, Hydrangea
vulgaris.
Hyssop - AKA:
The Holy Herb
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Jamaican Dogwood -
AKA: N/A
Jasmine
Juniper - AKA:Geneva, Genvrier
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Kelp - AKA: Fucus,
Seawrack, Cutweed, Bladderwrack, Wakame, Hijiki, Kombu, Arame
Kola Oats -
AKA:
Groats
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Lavender - AKA:
English Lavender
Lemon grass
Lemon verbena
Life Root - AKA: Cocashweed,
Coughweed, False Valerian, Female Regulator, Golden Ragwort, Golden
Senecio,grundy swallow,
Lime - AKA: Sour lime,
Mexican,West Indian lime
Lobelia - AKA:
Indian-Tobacco. Pukeweed. Asthma
Weed. Gagroot. Vomitwort. Bladderpod. Eyebright
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Maidenhair fern
Marigold -
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Mary bud, Mary gold, gold bloom, Garden
marigold, holigold, golds, ruddes, ruddles, Mary Gowles
Marijuana - AKA: Weed, Cannabis, Pot, Dope
Marjoram - AKA: Oregano (many palates cannot tell the difference!), Knotted Marjoram
Marshmallow -
AKA: March mallow
root, cheeses, althea and white mallow root
Meadowsweet -
AKA: Queen of the
meadow, bridewort, meadwort, dropwort and spiraea
Melissa
Mint - AKA:
Numerous kinds of mint
Mistletoe - AKA:
Lignum Crucis, Herbe de la Croix, Viscum
Motherwort -
AKA: Lion's
Tail and Heartwort
Mouse Ear - AKA: Felon
Herb, Hawkweed, Pilosella
Mugwort - AKA:
Artemisa, Carline
Thistle, Chiu Ts'Ao, Common Mugwort, Douglas Mugwort, Felon herb,
Sailor’s tobacco, Wormwood
Mullein - AKA:
Aaron's Rod, candlewick plant, flannel plant, lungwort, shepherd's
staff, velvet dock and torches.
Mustard -
AKA:
White Mustard, Yellow Mustard, Black Mustard,
Kedlock
Myrrh -
AKA: Balsamodendron
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Nettle - AKA: Stinging Nettle, Common Nettle, Greater Nettle
Nutmeg
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Oak Bark -
AKA: N/A
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Parsley - AKA:
Rock Selinon
Passion Flower -
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Passion Vine. Granadilla. Maracoc. Maypops
Pasque Flower - AKA:
Pulsatilla, Wind fFower and Meadow Anemone
Pellitory of the Wall -
AKA: Spanish Chamomile
Pepper, Red - AKA: Hot pepper, most of the pepper family including bell pepper
Peppermint - AKA: Mentha Nigricans
Pennywort -
AKA: Gotu
Kola, Centella and Pegaga
Pennyroyal, Rue -
AKA: Ancient Rue
Periwinkle -
AKA: Vinca Minor,
Vinca, Common Periwinkle, and Myrtle
Pilewort -
AKA: Small Celandine, Smallwort
Pill-bearing Spurge -
AKA:
Asthma Plant
Pine - AKA: Scots
pine
Plantain -
AKA:
Common Plantain,
Broadleaf Plantain, Great Plantain, Greater Plantain, Ripple Grass,
Plantago Asiatica, Waybread, Waybroad, Snakeweed, Cuckoo's Bread,
Englishman's Foot, White Man's Foot
Pleurisy Root -
AKA:
Butterfly-weed. Swallow-wort. Tuber
Root. Wind Root. Colic Root. Orange Milkweed
Poke Root -
AKA:
Phytolacca Decandra,
Grubroot, Inkberry
Poppies (Non-Opium) -AKA:
Californian Poppy
Prickly Ash -
AKA: Clavalier D'Amérique, Frêne Epineux, Zanthoxylum Americanum
Mill.
Puruvian Bark -
AKA: Jesuits' Powder, Red Bark, Cinchona
Bark
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Ragwort -
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Ragweed. Stinking Nanny. Staggerwort. Dog Standard. Cankerwort. Stammerwort,
Cocash Weed, Coughweed, False Valerian,
Female Regulator, Golden Groundsel, Golden senecio, Grundy Swallow,
Life Root, Senecio Aureus, or Squaw Weed.
Rose hip
Rosella
Rose-scented geranium
Rosemary - AKA:: Rosemarine, Incensier
Rhatany -
AKA: Rainforest Root
Rhubarb -
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Chinese Rhubarb, Turkey rhubarb, Himalayan rhuba, Indian rhubarb,
TYPES: (Turkey, English, Monk's )
Rue - AKA: Ruta graveolens,
Common Rue, and Herb of Grace
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Saffron - AKA: Spanish Saffron
Sage - AKA: All
types of Sage (Sage, Common) (Sage, Clary) (Sage, Vervain)
Saw Palmetto - AKA:
Palmetto, Sabal
Savory - AKA: White Thyme, Bean Herb
Senna -
AKA:
Tennevelly or Alexandrian
Senega -
AKA: Milkwort, Rattlesnake Root, Seneca
Snakeroot, Snake Root
Silverweed -
AKA: Argentine, Crampweed,
Goosewort, Moon Grass, Wild Tansy
Skullcap - AKA: Quaker Bonnet, Mad Dog Weed, Hoodwort, Helmet Flower
Slippery Elm -
AKA:
Indian Elm, Moose Elm, Sweet Elm
St. John's Wort - AKA: Hypericum, Klamath Weed, Goat Weed
Sundew -
AKA:
dew
plant, lustwort, round leaved sundew, youthwort
Sunflower -
AKA: Marigold of Peru
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Tarragon - AKA:
Dragon Herb, Estragon, French or Russian Tarragon
Tea - Also Known As: Green
Tea, Black Tea, ect.
Thistle - AKA- N/A - TYPES:
Holy, Milk, Scotch, Dwarf, Creeping Plume, Welted, Woolly-Headed,
Melancholy, Spear, Musk, Marsh Plume, Carline, Common Star, Yellow
Star
Thyme - AKA:
Mother of Thyme, Common or Garden Thyme, Wild, Creeping or Mother
Thyme
Tormentil -
AKA:
bloodroot, septfoil, thormantle, biscuits, shepherd's knapperty,
shepherd's knot, English sarsaparilla, red root
Turmeric - AKA:
Curcuma, Indian saffron, yellow ginger, haridra and Yu Jin
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Valerian - AKA: Phu, Heal-all, Garden Valerian
Vervain- AKA:
Indian Hyssop, Blue Vervain, Verbena, Enchanter's Herb
Violet
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Wahoo -
AKA: Burning Bush,
Spindle Tree, Whahow, wauhoo, Indian root, Indian arrow, Indian
arrow wood, strawberry tree, pegwood, bitter ash
Wild Yam - AKA:
Wild Mexican Yam, Colic Root, Rheumatism Root, Chinese Yam, Shan Yao
Witch Hazel - AKA: Hamamelis, Snapping Hazelnut, Winterbloom
Wild Carrot -
AKA: Wild Carrot, Queen Anne's Lace, Birds
Nest Weed
Wild Cherry -
AKA:
Wild Cherry Bark, Virginia Prune Bark
Wild Indigo - AKA: Wild
Indigo Root , Indigoweed
Wild Lettuce - AKA: Latuca
Virosa, and Bitter Lettuce
Wintergreen -
AKA: Teaberry. Boxberry. Mountain Tea. Checkerberry, Partridge
Berry. Deerberry, Chink, Ground Berry, Grouse Berry,Hill Berry,
Ivory Plum, Redberry Tea, Red Pollom, Spiceberry, Wax Cluster
Wormwood - AKA:
Wormwood, absinthium, green ginger, absinthe,
old woman, southernwood
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Yarrow - AKA: Bloodwort, Nose Bleed, Thousand Weed, Milfoil, Soldier's Woundwort
Yellow Dock -
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Chin-ch'iao-mai, Curled Dock, Garden Patience,
Narrow Dock, Parell, Patience Herb, Sour Dock
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