Month: June 2026

Wild Yam Root (Dioscorea villosa): The Antispasmodic Herb

Wild Yam Root — Dioscorea villosa — is a North American climbing vine whose root carries one of the most discussed and most misunderstood…

Wild Lettuce — Lactuca virosa — is a tall, prickly biennial of roadsides and waste ground, the wild ancestor of cultivated lettuce but with…

Wild Indigo — Baptisia tinctoria — is a North American prairie plant with striking yellow flowers that was used by Native American peoples for…

Wild Cherry Bark — Prunus serotina — is a North American tree whose bark is one of the most specific cough suppressants in the…

Wild Carrot — Daucus carota — is the ancestor of the cultivated carrot, growing on dry grasslands and roadsides throughout Britain as Queen Anne’s…

White Willow Bark — Salix alba — is the European White Willow’s bark preparation, and the original botanical source that led to the discovery…

White Horehound — Marrubium vulgare — is one of the oldest cough remedies in recorded medicine, mentioned by Dioscorides, Pliny, and in the works…

White Dead Nettle — Lamium album — is one of the most easily confused plants in the British countryside: its stinging-nettle-like leaves produce no…

The “Walnut Leaf Green Black” designation in the Herba Naturalle herb index refers to preparations made from the green (unripe) outer hull of Black…

Walnut Leaf — from Juglans nigra, the Black Walnut — is the leaf preparation of the same tree whose bark gives Butternut Bark…