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1
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Garlic

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Bulb. Most dried & powdered. Garlic oil, steam-distilled essential oil, Aged extract

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Ginkgo

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Leaves (seeds traditional). Acetone-and-water extract (Need 35:1 to 67:1 strength. Tablets, capsules, extracts, tea, cosmetics)

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Onion

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bulb

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Oat Bran

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Oat bran

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Guar Gum

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Reserve polysaccharide from Indian guar plant

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Red Yeast Rice

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Fungus grown on rice and fermented.

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Aloe vera

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Dried juice of leaf or grinding leaves

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Calendula

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Flowers. Infusion, tincture, fluid extract, cold infused oil, ointment

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Chamomile

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Flower heads, dried. Alcohol extract or aqueous preparation. Topical or oral. Sometimes inhaled.

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Comfrey

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Leaves and roots

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Witch Hazel

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Leaves, bark, twigs. Distilled extract (topical)

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Tea Tree oil

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Leaves, steam distilled

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Evening primrose oil

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Seeds, oil. extracted with hexane. (Water-in-oil emulsion may be better)

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Arnica

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Flowers. Tinctures, ointments

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Bromelain

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Enzymes from fruiting stems & juice.

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16
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Boswellia (Frankincense)

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Oleo-gum-resin

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17
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Butterbur

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rhizome

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18
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Capsicum

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Fruit, alcoholic extracts or oily preparations

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19
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Devils Claw

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Tubers, chopped, sun-dried

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Feverfew

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Dried whole leaf (ethanol extract may not be effective)

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Willow Bark

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bark

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Hops

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Hop resin in Strobiles (F flowers, 15-50%) & glands (50-80%). Dried

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Kava

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Root/rhizome. Dried, then chewed or ground macerated in cold water & strain liquid (beverage). Extract: ethanol-water (30%) or acetone-H2O 70%

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Lavender

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Flowers. essential oil (steam dist) as aromatherapy or extract

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Lemon Balm

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Dried leaves

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Passion Flower

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Dried, leafy aerial parts

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St. John’s Wort

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Buds, flowers, distal leaves, dried under 40°C & alcohol extract w/ water, in darkness

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Valerian

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Root. cut and dried for tea, water or water-ethanol extract

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29
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Wormwood, Aka absinthe

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Dried aerial parts, leaves & flowering tops

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30
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Butcher’s Broom

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rhizome

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Foxglove

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Leaf extract

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Hawthorn

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Leaves & flowers, white-blooming only. Dried or extract

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Horse Chestnut

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Extract from fully ripe seeds, rapidly dried. H2O/ETOH mixture

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Caraway

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Dried ripe fruits (aka seeds) or alcoholic extract of them.

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German Chamomile

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Flower heads. Alcohol extract or aqueous preparation. Solvent has impact.

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Roman Chamomile

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Flower heads. Alcohol extract or aqueous preparation. Solvent has impact.

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Ginger

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Licorice

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Dried rhizome & roots

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Peppermint

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Aerial parts. Steam distillation for oil

40
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Turmeric

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Root extract

41
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Buckthorn

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Dried bark. Must be aged or heated while exposed to air to weaken.

42
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Castor

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Mechanically COLD pressed oil of seeds

43
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Black Tea

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Leaves. Green– immed heated-> rolled, crushed-> dried. Black– fermented. Wilted, rolled, fermented to red-brown -> dried

44
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Flax/ Linseed

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Seeds (ripe & dried)

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Milk Thistle

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Ripe fruits (“seeds”), pappus removed. Dried

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Psyllium

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Seed or husk. Husk 5 x’s more active.

47
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Brewer’s yeast

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Whole organism—bottom fermented yeast. Cultured in liquid & freeze dried

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Senna

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Seed pods or leaves. Teas or extracts.

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Marshmallow

50
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Meadowsweet

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Dried flowers– petals and buds. Tea infusion

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Pelargonium

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Extract of rhizomes

52
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Black Cohosh

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Dried rhizome & roots

53
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Chasteberry

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Dried, ripe fruits or alcohol extract of it.

54
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Nettle

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Root. Hydroalcoholic extracts (methanol or ethanol)

55
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Pumpkin seeds

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Seeds (soft-shell). Usually whole or ground, sometimes expressed oil or dry extract

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Pygeum

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Ground bark. Lipophilic extract

57
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Saw Palmetto

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Berries, extracted w/hexane or CO2 (lipophilic)

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Bearberry

59
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Asian Ginseng

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Root, dried. Powder or extract

60
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Siberian Ginseng

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Root, dried or extract

61
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Ashwagandha (aka Indian ginseng)

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Astralagus

63
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Cat’s Claw

64
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Cordyceps

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Fruiting body– fungus. Usually hyphal isolates

65
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Echinacea, which uses root extracts

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Root—alcoholic extracts

66
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Echinacea, which uses juice of aerial parts

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Juices of fresh aerial parts, incl flowers (40 parts juice from 100 parts plant)

67
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European mistletoe

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Extract, leaves, branches, berries. Preparations vary. Usually injected

68
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Goldenseal

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Dried rhizome & roots

69
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Gotu kola

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Leaves (swampy tropical creeper)

70
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Grape seed

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Seed, concentrated x 100

71
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Rhodiola

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Root, dried & powdered or extracts of it.

72
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Elder

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Flowers, ideally without peduncles/pedicels, tea

73
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Ephedra

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Dried young stems

74
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Eucalyptus

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Essential oil distilled from leaves

75
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Ivy Leaf

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Leaf extract

76
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Linden

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Whole flowering tops of tree, incl. bracts

560P Botanical Medicines Herbs - Gerber (7 decks)

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