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It grows in sunny dry places, on hedge banks, on sides of fields, woods and paths, on wastelands and near ruins.
Galium aparine, commonly known as Clivers or Goose-grass, grows in meadows, fields and hedges and reaches a height of 60 to 160 cm.
Butterbur grows on the edges of rivers and woods, in ditches and marshy meadows. It is much larger than the Coltsfoot, which belongs to the same family.
Calamus roots are not only used, because of their strengthening effects, for overall weakness of the digestive system and flatulence as well as colic, but are also helpful for glandular disorders and gout.
Calendula belongs to the plants which are beneficial in cancer and cancerlike growths.
It grows on clay soils, arable land, hillsides, in glades, clover, potato, corn, and wheatfields. After snow rich winters and wet springs, it is found in abundance.
When our meadows and hills show no sign of spring and the eye just barely notices the swelling of the willow-catkins, the Coltsfoot is the first to appear, sending forth its stalk with the yellow flower.
This medicinal plant belongs to our most indispensable and valued herbs, which nature has in store for us.
The Club Moss is a radium containing plant and easily distinguished by its widely ranging, rope-like ramblers and the yellow pollen of the spikes.
The golden yellow blossoms of this variety of Cowslip have an honey-like, agreeable fragrance and, forming an umbel on a long stalk, rise out of the centre of a rosette of leaves.
This plant, looked upon as a troublesome weed in lawns, is Nature's greatest healing aid for suffering mankind.
This medicinal plant is found in woods and copses, in moist ditches and on hillsides. The erect stem with its bushy branches on the upper half, carrying yellow star-like flowers, grows to about 80 cm.
Greater Celandine is not related to the Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria) and the only thing they have in common is the colour of their flowers.
Horsetail grows in fields, on hedge banks and railway embankments.
Corn is cultivated in many parts of the world and in recent years has become popular in Europe.
Since Christian times it has been associated with the Virgin Mary.
The small leaved Mallow grows on old walls, near paths and on waste ground, always in the neighbourhood of human habitation. Should it be found far from it, it indicates that once a house stood there. The large leaved Mallow - Malva grandifolia - and other varieties are mostly found growing in flower and vegetable gardens.
The well-known Mistletoe, an evergreen, parasitic plant, grows on deciduous trees and pine trees in a ball-like bush and is an excellent medicinal herb one should not do without.
Of the many medicinal plants we know, this is one that has been as widespread and esteemed in ancient times as it is now.
Ramson's pungent garlic odour that has given it the name of Wild Garlic, is smelled long before the plants are sighted and prevents them from being mistaken for the Lilly-of-the-Valley or the Meadow Saffron (Colchicum autumnale).
Sage, the familiar plant of the kitchen garden, comes to us from southern Europe.
This herb is to be found everywhere in meadows, ditches, fields and gardens and is looked upon as a troublesome weed.
The Willow-herb, until now hardly found mentioned in herbals, has since the first publication of this book in the German language started an almost triumphal march across Europe and even further, as a medicinal herb for disorders of the prostate gland.
When the Romans conquered Germanic lands, they learned from the old Teutons about the great value of this much esteemed herb.
St. John's Wort, Old Christian beliefs connected the fragrant, red juice of the flowers with the blood and wounds of Jesus Christ.
In a radio program a physician once pointed out that the Stinging Nettle is one of our most valuable medicinal herbs.
Thyme came to us from the Mediterranean countries during the eleventh century and the cultivated form, grown mainly in our gardens, is known as Garden Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) sometimes as Mother Thyme.
The Walnut, a large tree, flowers in early spring, before the leaves appear.
It grows abundantly in woods where, with its light green leaves and dainty white flowers, it covers the ground like a blanket.
Yarrow is a medicinal herb that would be difficult to be without; it is of great value for many illnesses but first and foremost, it is a herb for women.
This plant grows in damp woods, in shady hedgerows, in waste places, quarries and wherever the Stinging Nettle grows.
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