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Traditional Ailments

This page groups plants by the ailment tradition holds them to treat. Wikipedia notes that "the use of herbal remedies is more prevalent in people with chronic diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, asthma, and end-stage kidney disease." Browsing by ailment lets a visitor find every plant traditionally reached for to treat one particular condition.

Facts

Bark comforts the cold stomach and stays nausea

Boiled leaves and juice used to loosen the belly

Juice used for fluxes and hot inflamed sores

Leaves and flowers used for the chest and lungs

Leaves used to heal running sores, burns, and ulcers

Oil eases the aching tooth and aids digestion

Oil rubbed on aching joints to ease pain and inflammation

Poison relaxes spasm and stills pain, used with care

Poultice soothes inflamed skin, itching, and ulcers

Root used for cold, sluggish digestion, wind, and nausea

Seed used to comfort the stomach and ease wind

Used for the head and brain, faintness, and the heart

Used for the head and nerves, easing headache

Used for wounds and hurts of the sinews and nerves

Used to break the stone, ease wind, and comfort the stomach

Used to break up phlegm and strengthen the sight

Used to cheer the heart and drive away melancholy

Used to cleanse the blood and clear the skin

Used to cleanse the blood and guard against scurvy

Used to cleanse the blood and stay bleeding

Used to clear the chest and lungs of phlegm

Used to close wounds and stay the flux

Used to comfort a cold brain and ease the chest

Used to comfort a weak stomach and dissolve bruised blood

Used to ease the chest and comfort the stomach

Used to heal wounds and soothe the ulcered gut

Used to help digestion and comfort a weak stomach

Used to loosen phlegm and ease the cough

Used to stanch bleeding and close wounds

Used to stay fluxes and comfort the stomach and heart

Used to stay the hiccough and ease flatulence

Used to stir the appetite and warm a cold stomach

Used to strengthen a weak stomach and move the appetite

Used to strengthen the lungs and ease the cough

Used to strengthen the nerves and ease headache

Used to strengthen the womb and ease its pains

Used with care to still spasm, pain, and madness

Used with skill to deaden pain and bring on sleep