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How to Use Thorn Apple

This exotic-looking plant, also called Jimson weed, with its gaudy trumpet-shaped flowers and overpow­ering narcotic smell, is a member of the nightshade-family and shares many of the virtues and dangers…

How to Use Thyme

Herbal remedy Thyme is most famous as a powerful antiseptic for both internal and external use. It enhances the immune system's fight against bacterial, viral and fungal infections. The main…

How to Use Tiger Lily

The lily is one of the oldest and most beautiful flow­ers in the world and has been the inspiration of poets and artists alike for thousands of years. Lilies have…

How to Use Wallflower and Chicory

The perennial wallflower comes from the eastern Mediterranean and grows wild on old walls and rocks. The wildflower is yellow, hut culti­vated for its rustic beauty and sweet smell the…

How to Use Willow

Of the 250 species of willow, the white willow and the black willow are most commonly used in healing. The white willow is a large elegant tree that grows by…

How to Use Yerba Santa

Yerba santa or holy herb was regarded as a panacea by the indigenous peoples of American living in the dry, rocky, mountainous regions of what are now the western United…

How to Use a Hoe in Your Garden

Basically hoeing is a useful way to chop and cut the tops off seedling weeds; loosen compacted soil; and create a dust mulch to conserve moisture. Several types of hoe…

How to Use Agrimony

Found in summer hedgerows, fields and waste ground, agrimony is easily recognized by its delicate long spike of yellow flowers smelling of apricots, and its beautifully shaped leaves. Its country…

How to Use Aloe Vera

This succulent perennial of the lily family is indige­nous to East and southern Africa, but grows happily in other tropical places. In temperate climates it grows as a houseplant. There…

How to Use Angelica

Angelica is a large Umbellifer, growing up to 8—10 feet (3 metres). The whole plant is aromatic, with a pungent, sweet smell and taste. It is not to be con­fused…

How to Use Beth Root

This attractive member of the lily family is a hardy perennial fount! in rich, moist woodland in central and western states of America, where it is now endangered, and temperate…

How to Use Black Cohosh

Black Cohosh is a beautiful plant growing 4—8 feet (1-2 metres) high with small white feathery flowers in graceful slender spikes. It is a hardy perennial, native to the shady…

How to Use California Poppy

The poppy symbolizes the ephemeral pleasures of life — here one minute, gone the next. The California poppy with its vibrant yellow-orange flower is the state flower of California, and…

How to Use Cowslip

This pretty cousin of the primrose grows on chalk and limestone grassland and downs throughout Europe and Britain. While it was once a common feature of the countryside in spring,…

How to Use Cranesbill

There are many different varieties of wild geranium. American cranesbill is an attractive hardy perennial with rose-purple flowers and mottled leaves, found growing wild in woodlands throughout North America. In…

How to Use Eucalyptus

The eucalyptus is an attractive evergreen tree with bluish-green leathery leaves which are full of glands containing a fragrant volatile oil. It is indigenous to Australia and Tasmania where it…

How to Use Evening Primrose

Evening primrose is a tall elegant plant with large fragrant cup-shaped yellow flowers that generally open at dusk (or on very cloudy days), attracting the night-flying moths and insects which…

How to Use Feverfew

Feverfew is a pretty member of the daisy family, Compositae. Though now in the genus Tanacetum, it was previously in another Compositae genus, Chrysanthemum, (the others are Matricaria and Pyrethrum).…