Herbs, Herbalism and Magickal
uses of Herbs
Alternate plant
names (Submitted by Daye 14/3/00)
Blood: Elder sap or another
tree sap.
Blood Leather: Reindeer Moss/Rock
Tripe/Caribou Lichen
Bloodwort: Yarrow
Bread and Cheese Tree: Hawthorne.
Also known as: Whitethorn, Hazels,Gazels, Halves, Quickset, Albespyne,
L'Epine Noble. The buds are called Ladies' Meat; the blossoms are known
as May Flowers. The fruit are known as haws. See Hawthorn
Sopewort: Soapwort/Bruisewort.
See Figwort and Comfrey and Daisy,Common
Burning Bush: Fraxinella, otherwise
known as Bastard. More commonly known >as False or White Dittany.
Candelmas Maiden: Snowdrop.
(What Snowdrop is, I haven't figured out,yet.)
Capon's Tail: Valerian.
Christ's Ladder: Centaury,
Centaury Gentian. Century. Red Centaury.Filwort. Centory. or Feverwort
Queen of the Night: Night
Blooming Cereus. AKA: Vanilla Cactus.Sweet-scented Cactus. Large-flowered
Cactus, Deer-Horn Cactus
Cheeses: Marsh Mallow
Chocolate Flower: Wild
Geranium
Christ's Eye: Vervain
Sage
Clear-eye: Clary Sage
Click: Goosegrass
Clot: Great Mullein
Corpse Plant: Indian
Pipe. (Actually a saphrophyte fungus)
Crowdy Kit: Figwort
Cuddy's Lungs: Great
Mullein
Weed: Ox-Eye Daisy
Daphne: Laurel/Bay
Priest's Crown: Dandelion
leaves
Swine's Snout: Also Dandelion
leaves.
Devil's Plaything: Yarrow
Dew of the Sea: Rosemary
Dragon Wort: Bistort
Earth Smoke: Fumitory
Black Sampson: Echinacea.
Also sometimes known as (excuse the word)>Niggerhead.
Elf's Wort: Elecampane
Enchanter's Plant: Vervain
Englishman's Foot: Common
Plantain
Erba Santa Maria: Spearmint
Everlasting Friendship:
Goosegrass
Eye of the Day: Common Daisy
Eye of the Star: Horehound
Eye Root: Goldenseal
Eyes: Aster, Daisy, Eyebright,
etc. (any similar flower, it seams.)
Fairy Smoke: Indian Pipe
Felon Herb: Mugwort
Hair of Venus: Maidenhair Fern
Moonwort: and actual Fern.
:)
Osmund the Waterman:
Royal Fern
Heart of Osmund: Also the Royal
Fern
Black Maidenhair: Black Spleenwort
(another fern)
Five Fingers: Five-leaf
grass or ginseng (I haven't narrowed this down yet)
Fox's Clote: Burdock
Poor Man's Treacle: Garlic
Crow's Foot: Wild Geranium
Dove's Foot: Wild Geranium
Old-Maid's-Nightcap:
Wild Geranium
Shameface: Wild Geranium
Man's Health: Ginseng
God's Hair: Hart's Tongue
Fern
Golden Star: Avens
Gosling Wing: Goosegrass
Graveyard Dust: Mullein
Great Ox-eye: Ox-eye
Daisy
Hag's Taper: Great Mullein
Hagthorn: Hawthorn
Hare's Beard: Great Mullein
Herb of Grace: Vervain
Hind's Tongue: Hart's Tongue
Fern
Holy Herb: Yerba Santa
Holy Rope: Hemp Agrimony
Hook and Arn: Yerba Santa
Horse Tongue: Hart's Tongue
Fern
Horse Hoof: Coltsfoot
Innocense: Bluets
Jacob's Staff: Great
Mullein
Joy of the Mountain:
Marjoram
Jupiter's Staff: Great Mullein
King's Crown: Black Haw
Knight's Milfoil: Yarrow
Lad's Love: Southernwood
Lamb's Ears: Betony
Little Dragon: Tarragon
Love in Idleness: Pansy
Love Leaves: Burdock
Love Lies Bleeding: Amaranth
or Anemone
Love Man: Goosegrass
Love Parsley: Lovage
Love Root: Orris Root
Cucumber Tree: Magnolia
Maiden's Ruin: Southernwood
Master of the Woods:
Woodruff
May: Black Haw
May Lily: Lily of the Valley
May Rose: Black Haw
Maypops: Passion Flower
Mistress of the Night: Tuberose
Torches: Great Mullein
Mutton Chops: Goosegrass
Nose Bleed: Yarrow
Tanner's Bark: Common
Oak
Old Man's Flannel: Great Mullein
Old Man's Pepper: Yarrow
Oliver: Olive
Password: Primrose
Pucha-pat: Patchouli
Peter's Staff: Great Mullein
Cuckoo's Bread: Common Plantain
White Man's Foot: Common Plantain
Queen of the Meadow:
Meadowsweet
Queen of the Meadow Root:
Gravelroot
Ram's Head: American Valerian
Red Cockscomb: Amaranth
Ring-o-bells: Bluebells
Robin-run-in-the-grass: Goosegrass
Clear Eye: Clary Sage
See Bright: Clary Sage
Scaldhead: Blackberry
Seven Year's Love: Yarrow
Silver Bells: Black Haw
Sorcerer's Violet: Periwinkle
St. John's Herb: Hemp Agrimony.
(No, this is not St. John's Wort.)
St. John's Plant: Mugwort
(See last disclaimer)
Star Flower: Borage
Star of the Earth: Avens
Starweed: Chickweed
Sweethearts: (You guessed it)
Goosegrass
Tarragon: Mugwort
Tartar Root: Ginseng
Thousand Weed: Yarrow
Thunder Plant: House
Leek
Tongue of Dog: Hound's Tongue
Unicorn Horn: True Unicorn
Root
Wax Dolls: Fumitory
Weazel Snout: Yellow
Dead Nettles/Yellow Archangel
White: Ox-eye Daisy
White Wood: White Cinnamon
Witch's Asprin: White Willow/Willow
Bark
Witch's Brier: Brier Hips |