Annual or perennial, with broad lobed leaves. The flowers are white to yellow with a red or purple spot at the base. The fruit is a capsule containing numerous seeds. Height: Up to 2 meters

Okra oil is high in the unsaturated fats oleic acid and linoleic acid. Okra fruit is high in vitamins A and C, as well as calcium, iron, and protein. Okra's root has a strongly demulcent action, and be used (as an infusion) to treat syphilis.

Deciduous or semi-evergreen fern with thick rhizomes and crowns of broadly lanceolate fronds up to 36 inches long. Grows in damp woodlands and in hilly and mountainous areas.

It is good for sores, boils, carbuncles, swollen glands and epidemic flu. It inhibits bleeding of a hot nature, and is combined with cedar leaves for uterine bleeding. With other alteratives like honeysuckle, forsythia, and dandelion, it treats toxic blood conditions.

Its shape is reminiscent of Ginseng root. The simple stems range from 3 to 30 inches high, rising from the apex of a blunt tuber-like rhizome from one half to one and a half inches thick. The leaves are from 2 to 15 inches long, and are net veined and somewhat mottled.

It is antiseptic, astringent, and tonic expectorant, being used principally in hemorrhages, and to promote parturition. Externally, it is usually used in the form of a poultice, as a local irritant in skin diseases, or to restrain gangrene.

A perennial herb with a thick rhizome and a basal rosette of coarsely toothed palmately divided leaves. The tall, robust, hollow, finely furrowed stem is branched toward the top and bears terminal panicles of reddish to greenish-white flowers.

For centuries the rhizome of this rhubarb was highly regarded by the Chinese for its medicinal properties. Modern research has justified its reputation. It contains anthraquinones, which have a purgative effect, and tannin and bitters, which have the opposite effect. WARNING: DO NOT USE IF YOU HAVE ABDOMINAL PAIN OR DIARRHEA. CONSULT HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL BEFORE USE IF YOU ARE PREGNANT OR NURSING. DISCONTINUE IF YOU EXPERIENCE DIARRHEA OR WATERY STOOL.