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At Sacred Circle Salves it is our goal to not only provide you with great products but to make you an informed consumer. Listed below are descriptions of the herbs and shrubs used in our products. These descriptions are generic in nature and are not meant to be considered medical advice. If you have any further questions please refer to our contact page.

Chickweed – Commonly found throughout the world. Its petals open around 9:00 AM and remain that way for only twelve hours when weather is bright. They cannot open when it rains. Their faces turn away from the sun during rain showers. They rejuvenate just a few days after the rain. They bloom from March until late autumn. Its leaves turn in on themselves during the night in order to protect any tender, young leaves. These young leaves can serve as a substitute for spinach. Birds, pigs, rabbits, cows and horses will eat it, while goats generally avoid it. Its fresh leaves are used to make a poultice for inflamed, early-stage ulcers.

Common Birch– name most likely derived from the Sanskrit word, bhurga. The leaves can be used as a laxative and in the treatment of gout, rheumatism, and dropsy. It can dissolve kidney stones. Its bark can treat skin eruptions and dropsy. Its oil can treat internal maladies and skin infections such as eczema. Its inner bark can treat intermittent fevers while its vernal sap serves as a natural diuretic.

Common Oak – Its bark has medicinal uses. It can treat hemorrhages, intermittent fevers, chronic diarrhea, and dysentery. It can be boiled into a gargle for treating chronic sore throat. It can also be applied directly to bleeding gums and hemorrhoids.

Common Plantain – It can be found in meadowlands or on roadsides. It belongs to the order Plantaginaceae that contains over 200 varieties, twenty-five to thirty of which are used domestically. It is odorless, but its leaves taste bitter while its root tastes sweet when employed medicinally. It is called ‘Snake Weed’ in the United States due to its reported use in the treatment of venomous snakebites. It can treat skin inflammations, malignant ulcers and intermittent fever. Its leaves can treat external hemorrhaging, but not internal hemorrhaging. They can also treat bleeding lungs and stomachs, as well as dysentery. Its dried leaves can make a poultice useful for treating insect bites, burns, scalds, and minor bleeding.

Curled Dock / Yellow Dock – Its root serves as a laxative or in the treatment of rheumatism, nausea, vomiting, piles, bleeding of the lungs, and jaundice. It also treats various blood and chronic skin diseases.

Dandelion – It grows in Northern pastures, meadows and wastelands. It grows so uncontrollably that it is an annoying weed for most farmers. It appears most frequently during early summer, but can be found in bloom and dispersing its seed all year round. It aids kidney and liver functions, as well as bowel regularity and gallstones. Its roots can be used in either their fresh or dry forms. However, the juice from its roots possesses the most potent medicinal value. It serves as a natural diuretic. It is a good remedy for kidney and liver disorders because it targets urinary organs.

Golden Seal / Yellow Root – This small, perennial herb treats sore eyes and general types of ulcers. It serves as a yellow dye for clothing. It treats constipation, various digestive problems, inflammation of the colon and rectum, hemorrhoids, loss of appetite, liver problems, nausea and vomiting.

Great Mullein / Mullein Dock - It is a weed that grows naturally in the eastern United States. It flowers during the months of July and August. Both its leaves and flowers have medicinal qualities. It treats both lung and bowel bleeding. The entire plant can be used as a sedative or narcotic. Its dried leaves can be smoked in a pipe or rolled into cigarettes to treat asthma and spasmodic coughing. It also treats ringworm, frostbite, bruises, and burns. Mullein oil treats earaches, earwax build-up as well as eczema of both the inner ear and its canal. It also eradicates disease-related germs.

Jewelweed - Its flowers may be purple, yellow, pink, white or sometimes scarlet. It is in bloom from July to September. It treats vomiting, over-emotionalism, and serves as a natural diuretic.

Mints - Used to treat hiccough, flatulence, colic, abdominal cramps, cholera, diarrhea, and disorientation related to indigestion. Peppermint and spearmint grow in a warm, moist climate. Moist, porous and irrigated compost soil is ideal for its growth. Peppermint oil is widely used in both medicinal and commercial products. It also raises body heat and facilitates perspiration. Wild water mint serves as an astringent and stimulant. It can treat colds, influenza, and inflammations. It often is made into a tea. (See also Pennyroyal)

Mullein Dock – See Great Mullein.

Pennyroyal – This smallest, most aromatic variety of mint can reportedly drive away fleas. It grows in both wild and naturalized environments. It grows in moist soil near ponds, streams and pools. Like other mints, it contains an essential oil, but its oil is less potent than most others are. It acts as a water or blood purifier. It also treats headaches, dizziness, spasms, hysteria, flatulence, and various sicknesses (especially those of the stomach).

Raspberry – It is predominantly grown for its fruit. Its leaves can be dried and made into a tea suitable for treating sore mouths, canker sores and ulcers. It can also be used to clean open wounds, burns, and scalds.

Red Clover – A perennial generally found on sandy meadowland. It can treat involuntary muscle spasms, bronchial and whooping cough. It can be made into a poultice for treating cancerous growths.

Red Dock/ Water Dock – It has similar properties to those or curled dock / yellow dock. (See also Curled Dock / Yellow Dock)

Sassafras – The leaves of this tree are used to flavor sauces and thicken soups in Louisiana. Its young shoots are used to make a type of beer in Virginia. It is used to flavor carbonated beverages in the U. S. It has medicinal value for treating chronic rheumatism, syphilis, and various skin diseases. Its oil relieves the pain of menstrual obstructions, childbirth and gonorrhea.

Slippery Elm – This small tree is found in numerous parts of North America. Its inner bark has medicinal value and is an officially registered drug of the Unites States Pharmacopoeia. It treats inflammations and coughs. It softens skin, serves as a natural diuretic, and is as nutritious as oatmeal, for which it is a good substitute. It is one of the most valuable remedies in herbal medicine. It is in many patent foods. As a drink, it treats stomach and intestinal maladies, as well as insomnia. It also treats lung disorders, bronchitis, and coughs. Its bark treats diseases common to female organs. As an injection, it treats dysentery, bowel diseases, and urinary tract infections. Its viscous inner bark is used to make herbal salves. In powdered form, its bark makes one of the best poultices for treating wounds, boils, ulcers, burns, and various inflammations.

Strawberry – It serves as a laxative, diuretic, and astringent. It treats diarrhea, fevers, kidney and gallstones, as well as the pain and redness of sunburns.

Sweet Violet – This sweet-scented, deep purple flower with heart-shaped leaves blooms from late February to late April. It also appears in lilac, pale-rose, and white varieties. Various colors of flowers can grow from the same violet plant. The flowers it produces in Spring and Autumn are unique to each other and serve as a laxative. Ancient Rome made wine from its flowers. It has been used to treat epilepsy, burning eyes, insomnia, pleurisy, jaundice, etc.

Water Dock – See Red Dock

Wild Cherry – Used to treat bronchitis, nervous cough, whooping cough, and dyspepsia.

Willow-Herbs – They bloom for only one month each year. It serves as an intestinal astringent or treatment for skin diseases in infant and young children.

Witch Hazel – Both the leaves and bark of this shrub possess similar astringent, tonic, and sedative properties. It treats both internal and external hemorrhage. It also eases the pain of as well as heals hemorrhoids. It treats bruises, inflamed and swollen areas, diarrhea and dysentery. North American Indians make a poultice out of it for treating tumors and painful swelling. An extract for treating the pain and swelling of insect bites can be made.

Yellow Dock – See Curled Dock

Yellow Root – See Golden Seal