Wild Medicinal Herbs: Safe & Effective Natural Treatment

Herbs are a family of plants used for many things, including medicine. You can grow them on your own, from seed, or pick up a plant at your local nursery. Look into the myriad of uses for wild medicinal herbs before turning to conventional medicine.

Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa)

The leaves of the wild bergamot plant are used as a carminative and stimulant.

Wild black cherry (Prunus serotina)

The bark of wild black cherry trees is used as an astringent, pectoral, sedative, and stimulant.

Wild carrot (Daucus carota)

Oil from the dried seed and root of a carrot is used as a medicinal herb for edema, gas, and worms. It is also used as a nutritional and vitamin supplement and stimulant. It may also protect the heart and liver.

Wild cherry (Prunus virginiana)

The bark of the while cherry tree is used for asthma, bronchitis, cough, fever, hypertension, and mucosal inflammation with discharge, as well as an expectorant.

Wild chicory (Chicorium intybus)

The plant of root of the wild chicory plant is used for blood cleansing, cardiac disease, jaundice, liver disorders, promoting expectoration, and removal of calcium deposits.

Wild clover (Trifolium pratense)

The flowers of the red clover plant are used for blood cleansing, bronchitis, cancer, clearing toxins, nervous disorders, and spasms.

Wild daisy (Bells perennis)

Flowers of the wild daisy plant can be used as an analgesic, antispasmodic, demulcent, digestive, expectorant, laxative, and purgative.

Wild ginger (Asarum canadense)

The root of the wild ginger plant can be used as a carminative, diaphoretic, expectorant, and irritant. It is sometimes used as a substitute for ginger.

Wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria)

The indigo plant can be a useful antiseptic, astringent, emetic, purgative, and stimulant.

Wild lemon (Mandragora officinarium; Podophyllum peltatum)

The root and resin of the moondrake plant is used for cancer, condylomata, constipation, fever, indigestion, liver disorders, lower bowel disorders, warts, and worms. This herb is not safe for pregnant women or children.

Wild lettuce (Lactuca virosa)

The leaves, flowers, and seeds of the wild lettuce plant are useful for asthma, bronchitis, chronic pain, circulatory disorders, cramps, laryngitis, nervous disorders, stimulating lactation, swollen glands, and urinary tract infections.

Wild marjoram (Majorana hortensis; Origanum vulgare)

The marjoram plant is great for abdominal cramps, colic, headache, indigestion, respiratory problems, and violent cough.

Wild tobacco (Lobelia inflata)

The plant tincture of the lobelia plant is used for arthritis, asthma, bronchitis, hay fever, colds, cough, ear infections, epilepsy, fever, food poisoning, lockjaw, nervousness, pain, pneumonia, preventing miscarriage, whooping cough, and worms.

Saunders Pharmaceutical Word Book 2006