Answer:
Medicinal Plant name:
1. Sage
2. Peppermint
3. Yarrow
4. Rosemary
5. Aloe vera
6. Basil
7. Catnip
8. Perforate st john's-wort
9. Mallow
10. Oxeye daisy
Medicinal Values/Importance:
1. Sage’s genus name, Salvia, means “to heal,” reflecting its early use as a medicinal, not culinary, herb. It can help provide relief for mouth and throat inflammations.
2. If you have digestion issues or gas, sipping tea made of this medicinal herb might provide relief. It’s also been shown to help soothe headaches.
3. Yarrow is a powerful medicinal that grows wild as a perennial around the world. It’s taken as a dried herb tea for colds and flu, and helps to quickly stop bleeding when applied externally.
Inexperienced foragers confuse yarrow with queen anne’s lace, or wild carrot. The leaves are very different and easy to tell apart if you have both in your hand, but lacking that, know that the leaves of yarrow smell of cabbage, while queen anne’s lace leaves have a strong carrot smell.
Yarrow can also be used for:
Anxiety
Sleeping Problems
Inflammation
Mastitis
High Blood Pressure
Asthma
Muscle Spasms
4. This medicinal herb helps memory and concentration, improves mood—and sweetens breath.
5. While people in cold climates think of aloe vera as a cute potted plant, in arid climates it grows like a weed. Growing up in California, we’d harvest it with a wheelbarrow. Depending on where you live, starting an aloe patch in your backyard can be a great investment for your future health.
Aloe is usually used externally for burns and skin irritation, but it can also be taken internally for a number of different issues ranging from inflammatory conditions to constipation.
6. Basil. This medicinal herb can help with flatulence, lack of appetite, cuts and scrapes. Harvest the young leaves of this annual plant as needed. 2 / 14.
7. Catnip (Nepeta cataria): Catnip tea is a pleasant household remedy for nervousness, upset stomach, chronic bronchitis, colic, spasms.
8. These tiny yellow flowers are common along roadsides, and modern medicine supports their traditional use for treating depression and stabilizing mood.
Its latin name, hypericum perforatum, hints at the best way to identify it. The “perforatum” refers to the fact that the leaves are actually perforated and if you hold a tiny St. Johns Wort leaf up to the sunlight, you’ll see it’s full of tiny pinprick holes that let sunlight flow through.
9. Common mallow grows wild in many areas and is intentionally planted by gardeners in others. It is naturally high in soothing mucilage, which helps it treat respiratory complaints and sore throats.
Mallow also has a pleasing taste, which makes taking your medicine when you’re sick all the more enjoyable. Bees particularly enjoy the flowers, so it’s worth planting if you don’t happen to already have some growing along a fence or hedge.
Most of the time, you would make a tea out of the common mallow root. It turns into a thick mixture for digestive tract issues. You can eat the leaves, but some say that they taste bitter unless you eat the young leaves.
When it comes to its medicinal uses, you can use mallow for:
Calming Sore Throats
Coughs
Stomach Aches
Wounds
10. Growing wild in many parts, and frequently cultivated for its beautiful flowers, ox-eye daisy is used medicinally for respiratory complaints, chronic coughs, and bronchitis. Externally, it’s used to treat wounds and bruises.
In some parts of the world, it’s eaten as a salad green. The leaves are tasty in early spring, and later in the year, the flowers are a traditional addition to salads.
