A common herb growing in dry grassy places in Britain, throughout Europe and parts of North America. Stems are slender, angular, bearing whorls of linear leaves with downy undersurfaces and revolute margins. Flowers very small, bright yellow, in terminal panicles. It tastes slightly bitter and acid and is odourless.

Ladies bedstraw is used as a diuretic, alterative. Contains similar compounds to clivers and used for similar purposes. The flowers have been used to make cheese instead of rennet, hence the synonym.

Ladies mantle is a common British and European wild plant.

A variable group of similar microspecies, usually hairy but sometimes glabrous. Leaves up to about 5cm in diameter, having 7-11, rounded, serrate, palmate lobes.

Astringent, styptic. Used for excessive menstruation and diarrhoea, with some success, and topically for leucorrhoea and pruritis. The flavonoids inhibit elastase and trypsin in vitro and confer angio-protective effects.

This pleasantly powerful, distinctive fragrance of this pretty, purple-flowered plant has been popular since the earliest days of recorded history. The ancient Egyptians also used lavender as a perfume. Lavender's soothing, sedating phytochemicals readily absorb into the skin, including the sensitive membranes inside the nose. That's why even the scent of lavender oils tend to calm and relax.

Lavender can also help with Insomnia, intestinal disease, lack of appitite, nervousness, restlessness, stomachache, stomach disease, diabetes, gallbladder problems, gas, labor, cancer, dementia, depression, psoriasis, and skin problems.

A member of the mint family, the herb is native to the Mediterranean and certain areas of Asia but now exudes its distinct lemony aroma over much of the eastern and central United States. The tannins and other polyphenols in lemon balm extracts deter certain viruses, notably those that cause mumps and herpes. These phytochemicals apparently nudge out the virus for spots on cellular receptors that the viruses seem to favor.

Lemon Balm can also help with Gastric spasms, insomnia, intestinal disease, nervousness, stomach disease, alzheimer's disease, herpes, hyperthyroidism (graves' disease), mumps, palpitations, shingles, heart disease, high blood pressure, hysteria, and melancholy.

Lemon Grass is thought to be indigenous to tropical Asia, but now found widely in throughout the tropics. The antibacterial efects have been demonstrated in a number of studies. The oil is also anti-fungal against Candida albicans, and various trichophyton speices.

The sedative and anxiolytic properties have also been assessed, but toxicity remains a concern, and the analgesic effects confirmed.

Lemongrass oil can cause sensitivity and oral use should be avoided, although when used as flavouring in cookery the herb is considered safe.

Cultivated in warmer climates across the globe,. Lemon peel is believed to support the reduction of certain types of skin cancer. This herb has also been used to treat colic and upset stomach.

Lemon peel is a good source of Calcium, potassium, and vitamin A.

Though most people peel the skin off the lemon and only eat the fruit, the lemon peel is used medicinally.

The medicine, is in the yellowish white flowers, which are highly fragrant and yeild a great-tasting honey. Linden's phytochemicals quell spasms, encourage urination, and may be somewhat sedating. They're also good for inducing perspiration, as when you have a cold or the flu and need to break a fever.

Linden can also help with Bronchitis, anxiety, chills, earache, infections, cellulitis, diarrhea, convulsions, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, hysteria, intestinal disease, and premenstrual tension.

Some 20 different liquorice species grow in parts of Europe, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia. Liquorice's phytochemical components are among the best studied in all of herbal medicine. Two major ingredients are glycyrrhizin and glycyrrhetinic acid. but even without them, the herb, in the form of deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL), retains the healing powers of licoricone and related flavonoids, triterpenoids, lignans, and other phytochemicals.

Liquorice can also help with Respiratory disease, addison's disease, arthritis, cataracts, caries, HIV, kidney disease, lichen planus, lupus, malaria, tuberculosis, epilepsy, and tetanus.

Native Americans used to smoke the jagged-edged leaves of this native American plant, which grows across much of the continental United States. They did so to ease asthma, giving it the name asthma weed.Lobelia, whose yellowish green leaves taste as bitter as tobacco when chewed, has been used to relieve nicotine withdrawal symptoms. The lobeline in lobelia acts much like nicotine, although it's less potent. It stimulates the central nervous system and speeds respiration. It also helps break up mucus and facilitates coughing.

Lobelia can also help with Alzheimer's disease, bronchitis, laryngitis, whooping cough, arthritis, boils, bruises, heart disease, muscle pain, ringworm, and poison ivy.

Native to the Mediterranean region growing wild in the mountainous district of the south of France, in northern Greece and in the Balkans.

The root, leaves and seed are used for medicinal purposes.

Formely of culinary purposes, but now its use is restricted almost wholly to confectionery, the young stems being treated like those of Angelica, to which, however, it is inferior, as its stems are not so stout nor so succulent.