Botanical Name:Nigella sativa Common Name:Black Cumin Seed, Black Seed, Nigelia, Fennel Flower, Roman Coriander
What's It Used For?
Today, black seed is used for treating digestive tract conditions including gas, colic, diarrhea, dysentery,constipation and hemorrhoids. It is also used for respiratory conditions including, asthma, allergies, cough,bronchitis, emphysema,flu, swine flu, and congestion.
Botanical Name: Ocimum tenuiflorum Common Name: Holy Basil
What's It Used For?
Holy basil is used for the common cold, influenza ("the flu"), H1N1 (swine) flu, diabetes, asthma, bronchitis, earache, headache, stomach upset, heart disease, fever, viral hepatitis, malaria, stress, and tuberculosis. It is also used for mercury poisoning, to promote longevity, as a mosquito repellent, and to counteract snake and scorpion bites.
Botanical Name: Marrubium vulgare Common Name: Horehound Herb
What's It Used For?
Horehound is used for digestion problems including loss of appetite, indigestion, bloating, gas, diarrhea, constipation, and liver and gallbladder complaints. It is also used for lung and breathing problems including cough, whooping cough, asthma, tuberculosis, bronchitis, and swollen breathing passages.
Botanical Name: Hyssopus officinalis Common Name: Hyssopus
What's It Used For?
Hyssop is used for digestive and intestinal problems including liver and gallbladder conditions, intestinal pain, intestinal gas, colic, and loss of appetite. It is also used for respiratory problems including coughs, the common cold, respiratory infections, sore throat, and asthma.
Other uses include urinary tract infection (UTI), poor circulation, HIV/AIDS, and menstrual cramps.
Some people use hyssop as a gargle; in baths to cause sweating; and on the skin for treating skin irritations, burns, bruises, and frostbite.
Botanical Name: Lobelia inflata Common Name: Lobelia
What's It Used For?
Lobelia can be used for breathing difficulties including asthma, bronchitis, whooping cough, and shortness of breath (apnea) in newborn infants. Some people take lobelia as a sedative to help them relax. Other people use it to increase perspiration.
Lobelia can be applied to the skin for muscle pain, joint lumps associated with rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatic nodules), bruises, sprains, insect bites, poison ivy, and ringworm.