One Dozen Herbs I'd Like To Have In Winter - for Katrina

[herr_bookman]

Agrimony - "This herb also helps the cholic, cleanses the breast, and rids away the cough."

Kidneywart - "is very effectual for all inflammations and unnatural heats, to cool a fainting hot stomach."

Garden Arrach - "excellently good for swellings in the throat."

Arssmart - "The juice thereof dropped in, or otherwise applied, consumes all colds" and destroys worms in the ears

Colewart - "It helps indigestion, and warms a cold stomach, and opens obstructions of the liver and spleen."

Devil's Bit - "being boiled in wine, and drank, is very powerful against the plague, and all pestilential diseases or fevers, poisons also"

Archangel - "doth much allay the pains, and give ease to the gout, sciatica, and other pains of the joints and sinews."

Sow-Fennel, or Hog's-Fennel - "The juice dissolved in wine, or put into an egg, is good for a cough, or shortness of breath, and for those that are troubled with wind in the body."

All-Heal - Good for colds, and "purges choler very gently"

Knapweed - "helps to stay fluxes, both of blood at the mouth or nose."

Angelica - "... and taken with some of the root in powder at the beginning, helpeth the pleurisy, as also all other diseases of the lungs and breast, as coughs, phthysic, and shortness of breath; and a syrup of the stalks do the like."

Lungwort - "great use to physicians to help the diseases of the lungs, and for coughs, wheezings, and shortness of breath"