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[Bob RSS]

Previously, I have been posting a new thread for each individual herb, and most of these threads went without comment. So now I've decided to merge them all into a single resource so that you can more easily look through the list.

I'll continue to post individual threads (in occult news) and then if a discussion ensues, I'll let it stand alone as a discussion. However, the herb threads that go without reply I'll get them placed in this thread, as to no clutter the rest of the board.

If you find an herb here worthy of discussion, then by all means start a new thread on it. I'd love to see what you have to say! However, in order to maintain some semblance of sanity, this thread will be locked (I'd hate to see several herbs being discussed at once).

Enjoy,
Bob

[Bob RSS]

Description: Annual herbs with feathered blue-green leaves and hollow stems. Umbrella shaped cream and yellow blooms in summer followed by brown seeds.Uses: Use fresh leaves and flowers for flavoring or taken as a tea to releive digestive problems and flatulence. Seeds harvested when dry used ...

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Description: Woody perennial shrub that grows up to 3feet tall. Sprouts pungent grey-green featheryleaves. Also bears inconspicuous yellow-green flowersin late summer.Uses: Use shoots and leaves that have been slowlydried in the sun. Used medicinally as an infusion ortincture to h...

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Description: Short lived perennial with rosettes of richly green leaves. In early summer bears flat topped bunches of yellow-green flowers follow by capsules of brown seeds. Uses: Use leaves, fresh, frozen or dried, roots dug in the winter and dried in shade and seed capsules when ripe. Used ...

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Description: ge dense evergreen shrub or tree that grows up to 50 ft. Glossy oval dark green leaves. Small light yellow flowers in early summer followed by black berries. Uses: Leaves used anytime dried and lightly pressed. Ripe berries are pressed for oil. An aromatic antiseptic plant that...

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Description: white skinned bulb, with each bulb being divided into several cloves. Tall stem with single round pale green or pink bloom.Use: The parts you want to use are the bulbs (the "root" of the plant). Used for treating high blood pressure, as an antibiotic, as an expectorant and digestiv...

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Description: perennial herb with pink aromatic stemsand roots. Grows up to 4 ft and bears creamy smallwhite flowers in late summer.Use: Use flowers fresh or dried in gentle heat androots are dried for homeopathic uses. Is a source ofsalicylic acid, teas given to treat fever, flu and...

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Description: Course biennial herb with a thick fleshy taproot. Long willow-like leaves grow in rosettes up stems. Flower stems grow up to 6 ft and bear large fragrant pale yellow flowers with red sepals in summer, with individual blooms lasting no more than a day, followed by an elongated seedpod...

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Description: Coarse herb with long stalked oval leaves that grow up to 3 feet long. Grows umbels of off white flowers in summer. Has pungent roots, up to 2 feet long. Uses: Not recommended for medicinal uses. Used in cooking as a flavoring....

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Description: Aromatic evergreen bush with branching woody stems that grow up to 2 ft. Narrow silvery leaves and rich yellow daisies grow in summer.Uses: Leaves fresh or dried, flower heads and shoots used in summer for distillation. Very aromatic plant used for flavoring drinks, jellies, and...

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Description: Pungent herbaceous perennial with stout hollow ridged stems that grow up to 8 ft. Broad glossy toothed leaves that bear umbels of green or yellow flowers in summer followed by brown seedpods. Uses: Young leaves are used while avoiding the central flower stem. Hollow main stems ...

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Description: Grows to 6 ft and produces a few large and deeply indented at the ground level, tall hollow stems and topped with smaller leaves and greenish white flowers in midsummer. Use: Young leaves can be gathered and used at any time during the growing season. The stems can be harvested the ...

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Description: Bushy perennial that grows like groundcover. Small oval dark green leaves and white or mauve flowers in late summer.Uses: Use whole green plant fresh or dried. Treats gastric ailments, headaches, colds, bites and minor cuts and scrapes.Infusion: Used to prepare more delicate...

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From Pagan News

Description: Downy perennial with branched stems that grow up to 3 ft. Leaves are pungent and yellow green, and divided into smaller rounded leaflets. In midsummer bears small white daisies with prominent yellow centers. Uses: Use leaves or whole green flowering plant, fresh or dried in the s...

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From Pagan News

Description: Course biennial with long and narrow wavy-edged leaves, leaf stems growing up to 5 ft. Bears a slim spike of small yellow flowers at the tip of leaf stems.Uses: Use whole green plant gathered at flowering time. Used traditionally as a dye, plant yielding yellow or reddish yellow...

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From Pagan News

Description: Evergreen perennial shrub with square woody branching gray and wooly stems that grow up to 3 ft. Leaves are gray-green, soft and oblong. Bears whorls of blue flowers in summer. Uses: Use leaves fresh or dried in shade picked before flowering. Infusion used to treat depression, l...

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From Pagan News

Description: Prickly annual with downy white stems that grow up to 4 ft. Leaves are spiny, wavy and oblong, dark green with white veins. In midsummer bears red-purple thistly flowers. Uses: Use seedlings, young leaves and shoots, flower stems just before flowering, roots after flowering. Flo...

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From Pagan News

Description: Slow growing evergreen shrub. Sometimesresembles a small tree, growing up to 16 feet tall. Branches are covered with oval shaped leaves that areshiny and dark green on the top and paler under leaf. In mid spring blooms small greenish white flowers. Use: Leaves are used fr...

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From Pagan News

Description: Evergreen perennial herb. Branchedstems bear bunches of dark green narrow leaves. Cluster of star shaped flowers appear in summer.Uses: Use the green parts of the plant cut atflowering time and dried slowly. Used to poulticewounds and also given in a tea to stimulate mil...

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From Pagan News

Description: Dense perennial fern with tangled dense rootstock and elegant fronds that grow up to 6 ft. Uses: Use the main, thick roots medicinally and thinner roots for compost. Roots boiled in water to produce royal fern jelly which can be used to treat dysentery, coughs and pulmonary diso...

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