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Herbs. A herb is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like.Herbs have a variety of uses including culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual entheogen usage. General usage differs between culinary herbs and medicinal herbs. In medicinal or spiritual use any of the parts of the plant might be considered "herbs", including leaves, roots, flowers, seeds, resin, root bark, inner bark, berries and sometimes the pericarp or other portions.

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Agnus Castus to Yucca schidigera
Folk-lore of herbs and other plant products. Includes comprehensive list of herbs with their uses and hazards.

AllNatural.net's Guide to Chinese and Other Herbs
Includes a encyclopedia of common and botanical names photos, history of uses, scientific reports, descriptions of conditions/symptoms for which the herb has clinically demonstrated effects and descriptions of its actions, as well as the safety of each.


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