Bitterroot Restoration

An estimated 38,000 species of mushrooms, most provide a wealth of protein, fiber, B vitamins, and vitamin C, as well as calcium and other minerals. These medicinal mushrooms have been shown to boost heart health; lower the risk of cancer; ect. Many species of mushrooms used in folk medicine for thousands of years are under intense study by ethnobotanists and medical researchers.

As a purgative, galactogogue (to increase production of breast milk), anthelmintic- and hemostatic agent (purifies the blood). It is also effective against schistosomiasis (bilharzia). Further is it used against intestinal infections, infestations and to calm indigestion and heartburn.

Aesculus are woody plants from 4 to 36m tall (depending on species), and have stout shoots with resinous, often sticky, buds, opposite, palmately divided leaves. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs).

Acorus calamus is a tall perennial wetland monocot with scented leaves and rhizomes which have been used medicinally, for its odor, and as a psychotropic drug.

Achillea millefolium or Yarrow (other common names Gordaldo, Nosebleed plant, sneezewort, Sanguinary, Milfoil, soldier's friend) is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Northern Hemisphere. An aromatic tea is made from the flowers and leaves of Achillea millefolium, which is a very good diaphoretic and also makes a bitter tonic which stimulates digestion.

Allium Cepa is usually thought of as a vegetable, It also has a long history of medicinal use. Mainly the fleshy bulb that grows below the ground is  used medicinally as well as for food but other parts of the plant also have a place in the traditional medicines.

MuskDana (Abelmoschus moschatus) is a medicinal and aromatic herbaceous plant. It's flowers are a bright yellow.

Over the years scientists have verified many of the traditional uses of this bitter plant that continues to be an important natural remedy in herbal medicine systems. They have turned their focus on the beneficial properties of the fruit, leaves and seed  in diabetes and conditions related to diabetes, viruses( as well as HIV and certain cancers.), colds and flu, and tumors, high cholesterol, and psoriasis.

The plant of Aconitum napellus is a hardy perennial, with a fleshy, spindle-shaped root, palecoloured when young, but subsequently acquiring a dark brown skin. The value of Aconite as a medicine has been more fully realized in modern times, and it now rank as one of our most useful drugs. It is much used in homoeopathy.

This is the official source of the drug Stramonium of British Pharmacopoeia. In low doses, it is used as a common remedy for asthma, whooping cough, muscle spasm and symptoms of Parkinsonism. It is a very poisonous plant also. Cattle and sheep have died from eating it, and children have been poisoned by sucking nectar from the flowers. Symptoms include dilated pupils, thirst, fever, loss of coordination, confusion, rapid pulse, labored respiration, hallucinations, convulsions, and eventual coma. Death is rare however, and, if stomach contents are removed immediately, recovery usually follows in several days.