Herb-Spice Chart
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Plant List Updated 4/28/2017 Pages !165 © 2017 Rosemary Caspary Key: *cultivated at our garden, ** bought dried, eo- essential oil, ex- extract, io-infused oil Information for educational purposes only and are not intended to replace medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment and does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by Rosemary Caspary. Consult your health care professional for guidance. Plant Z Contraindicat Companio Ally Enemy Common Scientific o Herb Spice & other Type, Light, Soil, Therapeutic Action/ ion- n Names Name Family n Part of plant: part of plant: Height, Propagation Uses Interactions- Scientific e Caution /Common leaf varies Name Abiu, Pouteria Sapotaceae 9b to Fruit, varieties 1 to 4 Perennial, tree, looks astringent, anti- Caimito caimito Sapodilla 11 seeds, 1 seed similar to canistel, anemic, anti- better, Ztu: dose well in sandy or inflammatory rocky soil; can keep small compact tree, 33’, seed to fruit 3 years Acai Euterpe Perennial, palm tree, oleracea cold and soil sensitive, difficult to grow in S. FL; fruit hard, soften in water *Acoyo, Piper Piperaceae 8a to drink, egg, meat, Perennial, shrub, Leaf: anesthetic, Root Beer auritum Pepper 11 stew, tamales, partial to full shade, stomach disorders Plant, Hoja wrap; Mole Verde moist soil, 6 to 10’, Santa, division, layer Yerba Santa, False Kava Adenophora Adenophor Campanula 7a to cooked Perennial, sun to Root: antifungal, a triphylla ceae, 10b partial shade, moist, cardiotonic, Root, Three- Bellflower leaved 36”, seed expectorant; Ladybells, “Nourish (fluids)” Nan Sha Evergreen Herbs Shen Agar Gelidium Dried powder, store seaweed, red algae Gelatinous extract, amansii about 5 years, egg powder: substitute; dissolve antiinflamatory, in hot water & cool, laxative; culture vegetarian gelatin medium for substitute: thickener microbiological work for ice cream, jelly, growing bacteria & pudding, soup fungi Plant Z Contraindicat Companio Ally Enemy Common Scientific o Herb Spice & other Type, Light, Soil, Therapeutic Action/ ion- n Names Name Family n Part of plant: part of plant: Height, Propagation Uses Interactions- Scientific e Caution /Common leaf varies Name Agrimony Agrimonia Rosaceae 3 to Perennial, full sun, Flowering tops: eupatoria Rose 8 average soil antiasthmatic, astringent, tonic, diuretic Roots & Leaves: External- skin eruptions yellow dye Ackee, Akee Blighia Sapindacea 11 Fruit- only ripe: raw, Perennial, flower: Fruit: produce soap hypoglycin sapida e curry April to Sept.; A, toxic Soapberry substance harvest: Aug. to Nov., in aril, full sun to partial seeds, & shade; moist, well- husks, & drained, 35’ unripe fruit poisonous; antidiabetic drugs Ajmud Carum Apiaceae parsley substitute Seed: curries, Annual relieve gas & roxburgianu Parsley pickles, chutneys gripping bowel pain m Alfalfa Medicago Fabaceae 3a to Seed: sprout Perennial, drought Aerial parts: sativa Pea 11 tolerant, roots deeply, alterative Sprouts: fixes soil with cool; bitter, salty; nitrogen; accumulates tonify yin & blood; iron, magnesium, P, counteracts damp, K; attracts bees & damp heat, & heat, butterflies drains water, removes toxins; nutritious, restorative, bone building Alkanet, Alkanna Boraginace 8 to Root: color to Perennial, full sun, Root: coloring- red, tinctoria ae 9 tincture, vegetable upright, spreading, soluble in oil; Dyer’s Borage Bugloss oil, wine well drained, sandy, antibacterial, alkaline, 4-12”, antipruritic, cutting, root, seed astringent, vulnerary; external varicose veins, indolent ulcers, bed sores, itching rashes Plant Z Contraindicat Companio Ally Enemy Common Scientific o Herb Spice & other Type, Light, Soil, Therapeutic Action/ ion- n Names Name Family n Part of plant: part of plant: Height, Propagation Uses Interactions- Scientific e Caution /Common leaf varies Name *, ** Allspice, Pimenta Myrtaceae 10a tea, See Bay Berry: cake, Perennial, likes moist Berry: aromatic, Jamaica dioica Myrtle to 11 chutney, pickle, soil, withstands carminative, pepper, marinade, meat, pie, drought, prefer full stimulant Myrtle pudding, relish, rice, sun, may not flower Bark: aromatic pepper, soup, stew, or fruit dependably vegetable, wine outside native areas, Pimento, pick fruit green & dry Wild Cove; in sun; West Indian Bay Almond Perennial Nut: remove phlegm from lung, 23 per 1 oz serving, 160 calories; antioxidant, magnesium, vitamin E, B vitamins *Almond- Terminalia Combretece 9b to tea Fruit, Nut, & Kernel; Perennial, deciduous Leaves, Bark: catappa ae 11 outside & seed tree, prune lead shoot astringent Tropical Leadwood Almond, Tree edible- pink bitter, encourage low, wide Leaves: diaphrotic, Malabar yellow sweet; a lot spreading lateral anti-indigestion; Almond, of variation when branching; FL anitdysentery edible, young and category II invasive; Fruit: high tannic Sea Almond older: raw fruit in Nov.; full sun acid to medium shade, well-drained; mulch, salt, drought, and wind tolerant; fast growing, 30-80’, seed * Alocasia Alocasia Araceae Perennial Internal: numbness & pain throat, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting * Aloe - Aloe Asphodeloi 9b to Perennial, sun, Sap: liver & digestive Candelabra, arborescen deae 11 cutting, seed, division tonic; external- acne, Krantz Aloe, s burns Octopus Plant, Torch Aloe Plant Z Contraindicat Companio Ally Enemy Common Scientific o Herb Spice & other Type, Light, Soil, Therapeutic Action/ ion- n Names Name Family n Part of plant: part of plant: Height, Propagation Uses Interactions- Scientific e Caution /Common leaf varies Name * Aloe Vera Aloe vera Asphodeloi Gel: beverage, 24-39”, pups yellow compound deae dessert, yogurt produced by mature "aloin": bitter, plant, offsets improves appetite, speeds peristalsis The aloe leaf promotes digestion, and it is a good example of herbal synergy. Aloe gel: emollient; nourishes and soothes digestive membranes; alterative, antibacterial, antifungal, anthelmintic, parasiticide, demulcent, wound & burn healing, minor skin infections, vulnerary; hair growth; cold, bitter * Amaranth Amaranthu Amaranthac young leaves: salad Tropical annual, likes -high calcium; cool; sweet s eae hot conditions; host to bitter, sweet; tonify corn predatory ground Qi; counteracts beetles damp, drains water Amazon Pourouma Uticaceae 10 fruit, sweet & tasty: Perennial tree, fast Tree-Grape, cecropfifoli raw, jam, wine growing, 30’, seed to Uvilla a fruit 3 years American Apios Fabaceae Tuber, cooked, like perennial vine, protease americana potato, first boil, nitrogen fixer, can inhibitors Groundnut, cooking Potato Bean texture & flavor climb 20’ per year, neutralizes degrades as cool: grows on shrubs & hopniss flour trees; tuber Bean: edible Anamu Petiveria tea plant seed on top of alliacea soil, lightly covered, keep moist Plant Z Contraindicat Companio Ally Enemy Common Scientific o Herb Spice & other Type, Light, Soil, Therapeutic Action/ ion- n Names Name Family n Part of plant: part of plant: Height, Propagation Uses Interactions- Scientific e Caution /Common leaf varies Name Andrographi Andrograph Acanthacea Annual, sun, seed Aerial parts: s is e antihepatotoxic, paniculata antibiotic, antimalarial, antithrombogenic, antiinflammatory, antipyretic Angelica Angelica Apiaceae 4 to Custard, tart fruit, Perennial, light Root: alterative, pregnant archangelic Parsley 9 ice cream salad, shade, moist, 72”, carminative, a salsa, sauce, seed diaphoretic, stuffing; Iceland, expectorant, Scandinavia, tisane emmenagogue, stimulant, stomachic, tonic; warm - second degree; pungent bitter, sweet **Anise- Pimpinella Apiaceae Sauce, salads, Seed: cake, cookie, Annual, full sun, Carminative, eases Coriande Wormw Aniseed, anisum Parsley soup, stew, bread, egg, fish, fruit alkaline, well drained, cough, r ood Sweet vegetable-cooked cooked, meat, nut & 18-24”, seed; host galactagogue, Cumin, Dried: tea dried fruit mix, predatory wasp, prey stomachic; high in White Anise shellfish, sweets, on aphids; improves camphor vegetable vigor of plants grown near Anise- Black Pimpinella Apiaceae anisum, Parsley spp. Nero *, **Annatto, Bixa Bixaceae 911+ Seed, dried: food Perennial, shrub or Seeds: expectorant Achiote, orellana Annatto coloring- crush, mix small tree, full sun to Leaves: Bark: Root: Bixa, in water or heat in part shade, seed, Lipstick oil; beef, chili sauce, cutting, 15’ Tree, Uruca curry, egg, fish, grain, legume, onion, plantain, pork, potato, poultry, shellfish, soup, stew, sweet potato, tomato; East Indian, Latin American, Spanish. Plant Z Contraindicat Companio Ally Enemy Common Scientific o Herb Spice & other Type, Light, Soil, Therapeutic Action/ ion- n Names Name Family n Part of plant: part of plant: Height, Propagation Uses Interactions- Scientific e Caution /Common leaf varies Name Apple- Anna Malus x Rosaceae 5 to Fruit- large, light Perennial, deciduous, prebiotic, high onion , Manzano domestica Rose 9 greenish-red, nutrient accumulated pectin; apple cider Ana ‘Anna’ slightly acidic: potassium; must be vinegar infused with applesauce, eating, pollinated, blossoms fresh dandelion root pie Feb-March, fruit June; 100 to 200 hrs chill below 45F, 10-15’, well-drained; not as easy to grow, rigid pruning Apple- Ein Malus x Rosaceae 4 to Fruit- small, Perennial, deciduous, onion Shemer, domestica Rose 11 greenish-yellow, must be pollinated, Manzano ‘Ein dessert apple: see full sun, well-drained, Ein Shermer shemer’ above adapted to warm climates, 350 hrs chill below 45F, 10-15’ **Arnica Arnica External use only arthritis, bruises, broken skin, cordifolia, sprains, internal A. montana hyperextensions/