Reading Project Where the Lilies Bloom

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Reading ProjectWhere the Lilies Bloom

• Second Period
• Mrs. Kathy Boren
• Grade 8

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Wild Indigo

• Historically, the black root of wild indigo was
  used to make blue dye as well as to treat several
  types of infections, including those affecting
  the mouth and gums, lymph nodes, throat, and
  ulcers.1 In the past, wild indigo was used to
  treat more severe infections, such as typhus.

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Mayapple

• The rhizomes have a long history as a medicine
  among Native North American tribes. They used to
  gather the rhizomes in the autumn, dry them and
  grind them to a powder. They would eat or drink a
  brew of the powder as a laxative or to get rid of
  intestinal worms. The powder was also used as a
  poultice to treat warts and tumorous growths on
  the skin

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Maypop

• The herb passion flower is one of nature's best
  tranquilizers. Passion Flower relieves muscle
  tension and other manifestations of extreme
  anxiety. The herb is especially good for nervous
  insomnia - the kind that keeps you lying in bed
  worrying until the late hours

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Sweet Elder

• Prolific cream flowers with delightful sweet
  aroma and sweet muscatel grape flavour. Add to
  salads, punches, fruit compote, muffin mix, corn
  fritters, cordials, jellies, champagne.

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Catnip

• Catnip tea, made preferably from the fresh cut
  herb, makes an excellent cure for insomnia and
  hyperactivity. Add honey for flavor. Also is very
  good for reducing fevers, the miseries of
  hayfever, and nausea. A small, honey sweetened
  cup of warm tea is good for calming hyperactive
  kids. Rural residents of the Ozark have used
  mashed fresh catnip leaves as a crude poultice to
  relieve the pain of aching teeth and gums almost
  instantly.
• A strong, cooled catnip tea can be effectively
  used as a eyewash to relieve inflammation and
  swelling due to certain airborne allergies, flu
  and cold and excess alcoholic consumption.

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Sassafras Leaves

• It is common knowledge to most of us that
  sassafras was used as a spring tonic and blood
  thinner
• The roots, bark, and leaves of the sassafras have
  a spicy scent and the oils extracted from them
  have been used in soap making and in flavoring
  drinks, such as sassafras tea.

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Sumac

• In the Cashew Family
• Cultivated for its green flowers and brilliantly
  colored leaves.
• The result of contact with one of these plants is
  a red, bumpy skin rash, usually on areas of the
  body where the skin is thinnest, like the arms,
  shins and face
• There may be swelling near the rash
• side effects
• insomnia,
• nervousness or irritability,
• stomach upset, or
• weight gain.
• Poison sumac is found in some of the wooded
  swamps of southern Ontario and southern Quebec
• It is a tall shrub or small tree with 6-12
  leaflets arranged in pairs, and an additional
  single leaflet at the end of the midrib

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Blue Cohosh Roots

• An excellent uterine tonic that may be used in
  any situation where there is a weakness or loss
  of tone
• Blue Cohosh just before birth will help ensure an
  easy delivery
• It has a reputation for easing rheumatic pain.
  recommends it for the following situations
  chronic uterined isorders, amenorrhoea,
  dysmenorrhoea, scarlet fever, to prolong
  gestation, to increase strength of contractions
  in labor, as a partus preparator, to prevent
  premature delivery, hysteria, ovarian irritation,
  bronchitis, pneumonitis whooping cough.
• Preparations Dosage Decoction put l
  teaspoonful of the dried root in a cup of water,
  bring to the boil and simmer for l0 minutes. This
  should be drunk three times a day. Tincture take
  0.5-2ml of the tincture three times a day.

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Black Haw

• It is a powerful relaxant of the uterus and is
  used for dysmenorrhoea, false labour pains as
  well as in threatened miscarriage
• . It may be used as an anti-spasmodicin the
  treatment of asthma.
• Specific Indications and Uses - Uterine
  irritability and hyperasthesia threatened
  abortion uterine colic dysmenorrhoea with
  deficient menses severe lumbar and bearing-down
  pains cramp-like, expulsive menstrual pain
  intermittent, painful contractions of the pelvic
  tissues after-pains and false pains of
  pregnancy obstinate hiccough."
• Its principal use at the present day is in
  disorders of the female organs of reproduction
• Preparations Dosage Decoction put 2
  teaspoonfuls of the dried bark in a cup of water,
  bring to the boil and simmer for l0 minutes. This
  should be drunk three times a day.

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Fringe tree Bark

• This valuable herb may be safely used in all
  liver problems, especially when they have
  developed into jaundice
• It is a specific for the treatment of
  gall-bladder inflammation and a valuable part of
  treating gall-stones
• specific indications Duodenal catarrh, hepatic
  torpor, catarrhal jaundice, gallstones.
  Alimentary glycosuria. Pancreatic disease
  glandular disorders. Chronic disease of
  liver/spleen.
• considered it specific for "the liver. It is a
  remedy for hepatic engorgement jaundice more or
  less pronounced pain over the region of the
  gall-bladder pain in the epigastrium pain
  radiating from the navel over the abdomen
  soreness in the region of the liver, extending to
  the umbilicus enlargement of the of the liver,
  determined by percussion nausea occasional
  vomiting constipation with dry faeces,
  temperature slightly above normal skin usually
  yellow."
• Preparations Dosage Infusion pour a cup of
  boiling water onto l-2 teaspoonfuls of the bark
  and leave to infuse for l0-l5 minutes. This
  should be drunk three times a day. Tincture take
  l-2 ml of the tincture three times a day.

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Plants
Herbs
and
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Boneset Herbs

• Family Asteracea

Herbaceous perennial. Native to southern and
Eastern United States. Large and showy, bearing
masses of long-lived white flowers. Dried leaf
and flowering tops may be made into a tea or
tincture to treat colds and flu, especially when
there is an alternating chill and fever. When
Echinacea fails, the second line of defense is
Boneset.
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Red Clover Flowers

• This perrinial plant gives you red or purple
  flowers shaped like a ball and can grow up to 18
  in. Red clover is rich in phytoestrogens so it
  will help to bring the bodys hormone into better
  balance.

• Red clover acts as an antibiotic and is very good
  for bacterial infections, kidney problems, and
  liver disease. Red clover may help prevent
  cancer, HIV, and Aids.

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Hydrangea

• Hydrongea is the common name for some deciduous
  and evergreen shrubs. Hydrangeas are native to
  Asia and the Americas. The wild Hydrangea of the
  Eastern U. S. is a shrub, growing up to 10 feet
  high, that bears white flowers in round cluster.
  The showier Hydrangeas are cultivated Asian
  species that produce white, blue or pink flowers
  in round or flat clusters.

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Hellebore

• The Hellebore is known to be very exotic on all
  its parts and it decreases the heart rate along
  with decreasing the blood pressure and depresses
  the central nervous system. Commonly known as a
  part of the buttercup family. Native to Eurasia.
  Green Hellebore produces yellow flowers in late
  winter and early spring, also known as the
  Christmas flower.

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Lobelia

• Native to the central, southern and eastern
  United States. Diminutive plant with white
  flowers spotted with light blue which give way to
  the characteristic inflated seedpods. Lobelia
  is an almost indispensable anti-spasmodic and
  expectorant when combined with other, more
  soothing herbs (like Mullein) in cough
  preparations. A vinegar extraction of the seed is
  commonly used, and can cause the impressive
  expulsion of thick, ropy mucous from sinuses and
  bronchii.

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H e m l o c k
The juice of hemlock was frequently administered
to criminals. Hemlock is a tall, much branched
and gracefully growing plant, with elegantly-cut
foliage and white flowers. The entire plant has
a bitter taste and possesses a disagreeable mousy
odour this was the fatal poison which Socrates
was condemned to drink
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Balsam
Different locations of Balsam produce different
effects. Some of these uses are skin disease,
cough vapor,urinary tract diseases heart
stimulant and an aromatic. White Balsam leaves
can be used as a sedative.
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White Pine

• Expectorant,demulcent,diaretic,useful remedy for
  coughs/colds,beneficial effect on bladder and
  kidneys

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Wintergreen

• HabitatNorthern US from Georgia to Newfoundland
• Part used leaves
• Medical Uses Tonic. Stimulant, astringent,
  aromatic.

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• Have sharp scales, they need to be avoided
• Color- reddish to olive brown
• Older trees become black and fissured cornflake
  bark
• Grows in non-extreme soil types
• Grows in many different areas
• Good wood is used for furniture and paneling,
  bitter cherries are used in jelly and alcoholic
  beverages, the bark is used to make cough syrup
  and sometimes used a sedative

Cherry Tree
Bark of Wild
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Lady Slipper Root
The Lady Slipper
is in bloom from April until June.
It is found from Nova Scotia to the Southland's
They boiled the extract of the root to calm nerve
disorders. During the 19th century, American
doctors prescribed the root for hysteria,
delirium, headaches, epilepsy, neuralgia, muscle
spasms and nervousness.
of Alabama and westward to Missouri and
Minnesota. It is part of the orchid family. The
American Indians used it as medicine.
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Yellow Dock

• The root is used for medicine for poor digestion
  and skin condidtions.
• It is found all throughout America.
• It has a long history of uses and as an
  alteratvie. Alterive herbs have non-specific
  effects on the gastrointestinal tract and the
  liver. As a result it helps to treat skin
  conditions cause by poor liver function.
• The side effects are mild diarrhea or loose
  stools in some people.

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Roots of Marshmallow
Before Marshmallows were used as candy it was
used as a medicine to soothe sore throats and
coughs. The leaves and the light pink flowers of
the marshmallows contained a gooey substance
called mucilage. The mucilage soothes sore
throats and helps stop coughing. Doctors in the
19th century made candy medicine out of the
marshmallow plants to soothes peoples sore throts.
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Skunk Cabbage Habitat Swamps, bogs, seepage
areas, and very moist depressions in woods. The
first flower to bloom in late winter, as early as
late January. Skunk cabbage produces heat which
melts the surrounding snow or ice in order to
produce a flower. (The skunk cabbage produces
heat by uncoupling oxidative phosphorylation from
the electron transport system. Thus, the
temperature might be as high as 60o F, regardless
if the air/ground temperature is below
freezing).
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, common name for about 20 mostly creeping but
also erect herb species of the genus Anagallis,
of the primrose family, and found nearly
worldwide. The scarlet pimpernel, A. arvensis, is
a small, spreading annual native to Europe and
now found in North America. It grows in fields as
a weed, reaching from 6 to 30 cm (2.7 to 12 in)
in height, and has red, pink, or blue bell-shaped
flowers 6 mm (0.2 in) wide. The flowers close at
the approach of rain and open in bright sunshine
therefore, the plant has been called shepherd's
barometer and poor man's weatherglass. The blue
pimpernel, A. monelli, is abundant in parts of
Europe. The bog pimpernel, A. tenella, is common
in bogs in England.
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The ointment known as the "Balm of Gilead" comes
from a kind of balsam poplar. A balsam is a fir
tree, but a popular is a deciduous tree. In
ancient times the healing properties of the "Balm
of Gilead" were known throughout the world. The
Balm is described from antiquity as being a
'rare, fragrant and intoxicating unguent'. Its
properties to heal wounds bordered on the
miraculous. It was extremely valuable and often
used for barter.
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Description Small scrub or a arbolilo
caducifolio that can reach up to 8 meters in
height, with simple leaves elliptical to oblong,
4-6 cm in length and 1, 5-3 cm in width. Cleared
base margin finely sawed in the superior part.
White flowers appearing before the leaves the
measure 6-8 mm in diameter and they are ranged in
turgid. Fruit of around 6mm of diameter.Original
species in East of North America.