Botanical Remedies Chart
BOTANICAL REMEDIES
Use this guide as a starting point for basic herbal health solutions.
For example: Treat infections with garlic, help prevent cancer with bilberry, allay stress with chamomile, reduce hot flashes with red clover and relieve gas with fennel.
ACNE |
Calendula, aloe vera, topical tea tree oil |
ALCOHOLISM |
Evening primrose, kudzu |
ALLERGY |
Chamomile |
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE |
Ginkgo, rosemary |
ANGINA |
Hawthorn, garlic, willow, green tea |
ANXIETY and STRESS |
Hops, passionflower, valerian, chamomile, lavender |
ARTERIOSCLEROSIS |
Garlic |
ARTHRITIS |
Capsicum, ginger, turmeric, chamomile, lavender |
ASTHMA |
Coffee, ephedra, tea, turmeric, ginseng and garlic |
ATHLETE'S FOOT |
Tea tree oil |
ATTENTION-DEFICIT DISORDER |
Evening primrose oil, ginkgo biloba, pine bark |
BAD BREATH |
Parsley, mint |
BOILS |
Tea tree oil, garlic, echinacea, eleuthero, ginseng, rhodiola |
BRONCHITIS |
Echinacea, pelargonium, andrographis, garlic, ginseng |
BURNS |
Aloe vera, lavender, chamomile, eucalyptus |
CANCER |
Bilberry, blackberry, cocoa ( dark chocolate ) green tea, garlic, ginseng, maitake mushroom, pomegranate, raspberry, reishi mushroom, turmeric |
CANKER SORES |
Goldenseal |
COLDS |
Echinacea, andrographis, ginseng, coffee, licorice root (sore throat) , tea (nasal and chest congestion) |
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE |
Hawthorn |
CONSTIPATION |
Apple, psyllium seed, senna |
COUGH |
Eucalyptus |
DEPRESSION, MILD TO MODERATE |
ST John's wort, ginseng, chamomile, lavender, saffron |
DIABETES, TYPE 2 |
Garlic, beans ( navy, pinto, black, etc.. ) cinnamon, eleuthero, flax seed, green tea |
DIABETIC ULCERS |
Topical comfrey |
DIARRHEA |
Bilberry, raspberry, chamomile |
DIVERTICULTIS |
Peppermint, garlic, green tea, ginger, turmeric |
DIZZINESS |
Ginger, ginkgo |
EARACHE |
Echinacea |
ECZEMA |
Chamomile, topical borage seed oil, evening primrose oil |
FATIGUE |
Cocoa ( dark chocolate ) coffee, eleuthero, ginseng, rhodiola, tea |
FLU |
Echinacea, elderberry syrup |
GAS |
Fennel, dill |
GIARDIA |
Goldenseal |
GINGIVIST |
Goldenseal, green tea |
HAY FEVER |
Stinging nettle, butterbur |
HERPES |
Topical lemon balm, topical comfrey, echinacea, garlic, ginseng |
HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE |
Garlic, beans, cocoa ( dark chocolate ) hawthorn |
HIGH BLOOD SUGAR |
Fenugreek |
HIGH CHOLESTROL |
Apple, cinnamon, cocoa ( dark chocolate ) evening primrose oil, flax seed, soy foods, green tea, fish oil |
HOT FLASHES |
Red clover, soy, black cohosh |
IMPOTENCE |
Yohimbe |
INDIGESTION |
Chamomile, ginger, peppermint |
INFECTION |
Topical tea tree oil, astragalus, echinacea, eleuthero, garlic, ginseng, rhodiola |
INSOMNIA |
Passionflower, valerian, chamomile, lavender, lemon balm, hops, |
IRREGULAR HEARTBEAT |
Hawthorn |
IRREGULARITY |
Senna, psyllium seed |
IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME ( IBS ) |
Chamomile, peppermint, anise tea, fennel tea, turmeric tea |
LOWER BACK PAIN |
Thyme ( thymol ), oregano ( carvacrol ) white willow bark, |
MENSTRUAL CRAMPS |
Raspberry leaf, chaste berry |
MIGRAINE |
Feverfew, butterbur, ginger, peppermint, rosemary, yarrow, mulleins, teaberry, betony |
MORNING SICKNESS |
Ginger |
MOTION SICKNESS |
Ginger, |
MUSCLE PAIN |
Capsicum, wintergreen |
NAUSEA |
Ginger tea, chamomile tea, fennel tea, peppermint tea, licorice tea |
PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME |
Chaste berry, evening primrose |
RINGING IN THE EARS |
Ginkgo |
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER |
St. John's Wort |
SHINGLES |
Capsicum, oregano oil, echinacea, lemon balm, |
SORE THROAT |
Licorice, marsh mallow, mullein, slippery elm, sage, garlic, chamomile, echinacea |
STUFFY NOSE |
Echinacea, ginger tea, turmeric |
TONSILLITIS |
Goldenseal, astragalus, echinacea, liquorice root, sage, wild indigo |
TOOTHACHE |
Willow, clove, calendula, yarrow, tarragon |
ULCER |
Aloe, licorice |
VARICOSITIES |
Bilberry, horse chestnut |
YEAST INFECTION |
Garlic, goldenseal |
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