- Aloe -
Heated to bring boil to a head, sliced and eaten for colds, jelly for wrinkles, skin problems and sunburn.
- Basil -
Tea for mild nervous disorders, menstrual pain, bad heart, upset stomach.
- Cocolue -
(Watercress) thrush and body coolant.
- Eucalyptus -
Tea for colds and fever. Leaves crushed for decongestant.
- Four o'clock -
Crushed leaves with Vaseline for boils, tea of new leaves to cool blood.
- Garlic -
Colds, coughs, fever, blood pressure, diabetes, diarrhea, earache, intestinal infection, ringworm, sinusitis, virus, worms. (boiled in milk).
- Ginger Thomas -
Colds, fever, headaches, diabetes, jaundice. (tea from leaves and flowers).
- Hibiscus -
Faded flowers in cough syrup.
- Japana -
Revivant and cough syrup.
- Lemon Grass -
Flu and fever.
- Lignum Vitae -
Leaves and flowers for debility - bark for fish poisoning.
- Lime Bush -
Upset stomach (tea).
- Marigold -
Abscesses and boils (leaves and flowers poultice).
- Marjoram -
Head cold and chest cold - mild tea for baby's colic. Liver obstruction (tea).
- Mints -
Stomach ache, dispels gas and mild laxative (tea).
- Nutmeg -
Athletes foot (ointment), poultices for sore body parts.
- Onions -
Colds, stomach cleanser, rub on burns, stimulates appetite (ingestion).
- Papaya -
Seeds steeped for diabetes. Leaves tenderize meat, green fruit crushed for bruises.
- Passion Fruit or Pap Vine -
Flower-eye tonic, tension, tension headache, high blood pressure. (tea).
- Parsley -
Heart strengthener, digestion inducer, urinary tract fortifier. (tea or ingestion).
- Periwinkle -
Diabetes, menstrual trauma, soothes nerves. (tea)
- Pomegranate -
Leaves and blossoms and seed - tea for dysentery. Rind and bark for tapeworms.
- Prickly Pear -
Washing hair, inflamed eyes, high blood pressure. Cataplasm with cornmeal eases back ache or abdominal inflammation.
- Rosemary -
Tea for nervous tension and headache. Dried and burned, fumigates sick rooms.
- Sarsaparilla (Candle bush) -
blood purifier from dried roots.
- Sorrel -
Leaves combined with carrot tops for cooling and kidney or bladder ailments.
- Soursop -
Tea as sedative - sleep inducer. Plug (center of fruit) for bedwetting.
- Wurra Wine (Vervain) -
Cools blood, relieves constipation, fever and worms. Crushed leaves in bush bath soothes prickly heat.
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