
ALFALFA
COMMON NAME: ALFALFA LATIN NAME: Medicago sativa FAMILY: Papilionaceae PARTS USED: Leaves, flowers, seeds, and sprouts. REGIONS: Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe SYSTEM AFFECTED: digestive, structural,

COMMON NAME: ALFALFA LATIN NAME: Medicago sativa FAMILY: Papilionaceae PARTS USED: Leaves, flowers, seeds, and sprouts. REGIONS: Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe SYSTEM AFFECTED: digestive, structural,

COMMON NAME: YARROW, woundwort, staunch weed, nosebleed, woundwort, carpenter’s weed LATIN NAME: Achillea millefolium FAMILY: Asteraceae PARTS USED: Aerial parts REGIONS: regions of the Northern Hemisphere

COMMON NAME: PEPPERMINT LATIN NAME: Mentha × piperita FAMILY: Lamiaceae PARTS USED: leaves REGIONS: Widespread SYSTEM AFFECTED: digestive, circulatory, respiratory HARVESTING GUIDELINES: Harvest the top 3 to

COMMON NAME: RED RASPBERRY LEAF LATIN NAME: Rubus spp. FAMILY: Rosaceae PARTS USED: leaves, fruit, bark REGIONS: Widespread SYSTEM AFFECTED: digestive, urinary, circulatory HARVESTING GUIDELINES: Harvest a

COMMON NAME: OAT, oatstraw, milky oat, wild oats, oatgrass, catgrass LATIN NAME: Avena sativa FAMILY: Poaceae, Graminaceae PARTS USED: Milky oat tops; oat stem REGIONS: throughout the

COMMON NAME: MULLEIN, Flannel Leaf, Mullein Dock, Aaron’s Rod LATIN NAME: Verbascum thapsus FAMILY: Scrophulariaceae PARTS USED: Leaves, flowers, roots REGIONS: Anywhere SYSTEM AFFECTED: respiratory, digestive

COMMON NAME: CALIFORNIA POPPY, golden poppy, California golden poppy, flame flower LATIN NAME: Eschscholzia californica Cham. FAMILY: Papaveraceae PARTS USED: flowers REGIONS: California poppy is native

COMMON NAME: CHAMOMILE LATIN NAME: Matricaria chamomilla FAMILY: Asteraceae PARTS USED: Flower head REGIONS: Southern and Eastern Europe SYSTEM AFFECTED: urinary, nervous, digestive, circulatory HARVESTING GUIDELINES: flowers at

COMMON NAME: COMFREY knitbone, woundwort, knitback, blackwort, bruisewort, slippery root, boneset, and gum plant LATIN NAME: Symphytum officinale FAMILY: Boraginaceae PARTS USED: Leaves and root REGIONS: Europe

COMMON NAME: CRAMP BARK, Squaw bush, black haw. LATIN NAME: Viburnum opulus FAMILY: Adoxaceae (formerly Caprifoliaceae) PARTS USED: Bark REGIONS: Europe, Northern Africa, and Northern Asia





COMMON NAME: ALFALFA LATIN NAME: Medicago sativa FAMILY: Papilionaceae PARTS USED: Leaves, flowers, seeds, and sprouts. REGIONS: Southeast Asia and Southeast Europe SYSTEM AFFECTED: digestive, structural,

COMMON NAME: YARROW, woundwort, staunch weed, nosebleed, woundwort, carpenter’s weed LATIN NAME: Achillea millefolium FAMILY: Asteraceae PARTS USED: Aerial parts REGIONS: regions of the Northern Hemisphere

COMMON NAME: PEPPERMINT LATIN NAME: Mentha × piperita FAMILY: Lamiaceae PARTS USED: leaves REGIONS: Widespread SYSTEM AFFECTED: digestive, circulatory, respiratory HARVESTING GUIDELINES: Harvest the top 3 to

COMMON NAME: RED RASPBERRY LEAF LATIN NAME: Rubus spp. FAMILY: Rosaceae PARTS USED: leaves, fruit, bark REGIONS: Widespread SYSTEM AFFECTED: digestive, urinary, circulatory HARVESTING GUIDELINES: Harvest a
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