Old Herbal Names along with New Names by Tea

[Dept of PMM Artists & things]

I am working on this project and have for awhile now, but thought it would be neat for all here to see what herbs use to called in the past. Now I know this is all according to the Different Cultures and all had different names for the Herbs they used in their area.

But over all it all depends on what the Herb reminds you of and what it is going to used for. Needless to say I hope if I have left anything out, please feel free to add to this as I will be adding to it as well.

Blessings,

~Tea~

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Adders Fork: - Adders tongue
Adders Tongue: - Dogstooth Violet, Plantain
An Eagle:  - Wild Garlic
Ass's Foot:  - Coltsfoot
Bat's Wings:  - Holly
Bat's Wool:  - Spanish Moss
Bear's Foot:  - Lady's Mantle
Bird's Eye:  - Germander, Speedwell
Black Maidenhair: - Black Spleenwort
Black Sampson: - Echinacea
Blood:  - Sap of Elder Tree
Blood from a Head:  - Lupine.
Blood from a Shoulder:  - Bear's Breeches
Blood Leather:  - Reindeer Moss/Rock Tripe/Caribou Lichen
Blood of a Goose: -  A Mulberry Tree's sap.
Blood of an Eye: - Tamarisk Gall.
Blood of Ares:  - Purslane
Blood of Hephaistos: - Wormwood
Blood of Hestia: -  Camomile
Blood:  - Elder sap or another tree sap
Bloody fingers: - foxglove
Bloodwort:  - Yarrow
Blue jay:  - Bay Laurel
Bone of an Ibis: - Buckthorn
Brains:  - cherry tree gum (or any fruit tree gum)
Bread and Cheese Tree: - Hawthorne. Whitethorn, Hazels,
Bull's Blood:  - Horehound
Bull's Foot:  - Coltsfoot
Burning Bush: - Fraxinella, Bastard, or False/White Dittany
Calf's Snout:  - Snapdragon
Candelmas Maiden: - Snowdrop
Candlewick Plant: - Mullein
Capon's Tail: -  Valerian.
Cat:  - Catnip
Cat's Foot:  - Canada Snake Root or Ground Ivy
Cheeses:  - Marsh Mallow
Chocolate Flower: -  Wild Geranium
Christ's Eye:  - Vervain Sage
Christ's Ladder: - Centaury, Centaury Gentian, Century Red
Clear Eye: - Clary Sage
Click:  - Goosegrass
Clot:  - Great Mullein
Corpse candles: -  mullein
Corpse Plant:  - Indian Pipe, Fungus
Crowdy Kit:  - Figwort
Crow's Foot:  - Wild Geranium, cranesbill, buttercup
Crown for a King:  - Wormwood
Cuckoo's Bread:  - Common Plantain
Cucumber Tree:  - Magnolia
Cuddy's Lungs: - Great Mullein
Daphne:  - Laurel/Bay
Devils Dung:  - Asafetida
Devil's Plaything:  - Yarrow
Dew of the Sea: -  Rosemary
Dog:  - Couch grass
Dog's Mouth:  - Snap Dragon
Dogs Tongue:  - Hounds tongue
Dove's Foot:  - Wild Geranium
Dragon Wort:  - Bistort
Dragon's Blood: - Calamus, resin of draco palm
Dragon’s scales: - bistort leaves
Eagle: - wild garlic of fenugreek
Ear of an ass: -  comfrey
Ears of an goat:  - St. Johns Wort
Earth Smoke: - Fumitory
Elf's Wort:  - Elecampane
Enchanter's Plant:  - Vervain
Englishman's Foot:  - Common Plantain
Erba Santa Maria: - Spearmint
Everlasting Friendship: -  Goosegrass
Eye of Christ:  - Germander Speedwell
Eye of the Day: - Common Daisy
Eye of Newt: - Mustard Seed
Eye of the Star: -  Horehound
Eye Root: - Goldenseal
Eyes:  - Aster, Daisy, Eyebright, etc
Fairy Smoke: - Indian Pipe
Fat from a Head: - Spurge.
Felon Herb:  - Mugwort, Filwort, Centory, or Feverwort
Fingers:  - cinquefoil
Five Fingers: - Fiveleaf grass or Cinquefoil
Foot: - leaf
Fox's Clote: - Burdock
Frog: - Cinquefoil
Frog's Foot:  - Bulbous Buttercup
From the Belly:  - Earthapple.
From the Foot: - Houseleek.
From the Loins:  - Chamomile.
Goat's Foot:  - Ash Weed
God's Hair:  - Hart's Tongue Fern
Golden Star: - Avens
Gosling Wing:  - Goosegrass
Graveyard Dust: -  Mullein
Great Oxeye:  - Oxeye Daisy
Guts/entrails:  -  the roots and stalk of a plant
Hag's Taper: -  Great Mullein
Hagthorn:  - Hawthorn
Hair: - dried stringy herbs, ripe male fern
Hairs of a Hamadryas Baboon: - Dill Seed.
Hair of Venus:  - Maidenhair Fern
Hare's Beard: - Great Mullein
Hawk: - hawkweed
Hawk's Heart: - Wormwood seed or wormwood crown
Head: - flower of a plant
Heart:  - walnut; bud, seed or nut
Heart of Osmund: - Royal Fern
Herb of Grace:  - Vervain
Hind's Tongue: - Hart's Tongue Fern
Holy Herb: - Yerba Santa
Holy Rope: -  Common Agrimony
Hook and Arm:  - Yerba Santa
Horse Hoof:  - Coltsfoot
Horse Tongue:  - Hart's Tongue Fern
Hundred Eyes:  - Periwinkle
Jacob's Staff:  - Great Mullein
Joy of the Mountain: -  Marjoram
Jupiter's Staff:  - Great Mullein
King's Crown: - Black Haw
Knight's Milfoil:  - Yarrow
Krono’s blood: - Cedar
Ladies' Meat: - May Flower blossom.
Lad's Love: - Southernwood
Lady's Glove: - Foxglove
Lamb:  - lettuce
Lamb's Ears: -  Betony
Leg:  - Leaf
Lion's Hairs:  - Turnip leaves
Lion's Tooth: - Dandelion
Little Dragon: - Tarragon
Love in Idleness: - Pansy
Love Leaves:  - Burdock
Love Lies Bleeding: - Anemone
Love Man:  - Goosegrass
Love Parsley: - Lovage
Love Root:  - Orris Root
Maiden's Ruin: - Southernwood
Man's Bile:  - Turnip Sap.
Man's Health:  - Ginseng
Master of the Woods: - Woodruff
Masterwort: - Angelica
May Lily:  - Lily of the Valley
May Rose: -  Black Haw
May:  - Black Haw
Maypops:  - Passion Flower
Mistress of the Night: - Tuberose
Moonwort:  - Fern
Mutton Chops: - Goosegrass
Nightingale:  - Hops
Nose Bleed: - Yarrow
Old Man's Flannel: - Great Mullein
Old Man's Pepper:  - Yarrow
Old Maid's Nightcap: -  Wild Geranium
Oliver:  - Olive
Osmund the Waterman: -  Royal Fern
Password: -  Primrose
Paw:  - Leaf
Peter's Staff:  - Great Mullein
Physicians bone: - Sandstone
Pig's Tail:  - Leopard's Bane.
Poor Man's Treacle: - Garlic
Priest's Crown:  - Dandelion leaves
Privates:  - seed
Puchapat:  - Patchouli
Queen of the Meadow: -  Meadowsweet
Ram's Head: -  American Valerian
Rat:  - Valerian
Red Cockscomb: - Amaranth
Ringobells:  - Bluebells
Robin-run-in-the-grass: - Goosegrass
Scaldhead: - Blackberry
See Bright:  - Clary Sage
Seed of Horus:  - Horehound
Seed of Ammon: - Houseleek.
Seed of Ares:  - Clover.
Seed of Helios: -  White Hellebore.
Seed of Hephaistos: -  Fleabane
Seed of Herakles:  - MustardGreens
Seed of Hermes:  - Dill
Seven Year's Love: - Yarrow
Shameface:  -Wild Geranium
Shepherd's Heart:- Shepherd's Purse
Silver Bells:  - Black Haw
Skin of man: -  Fern
Skull: - Skullcap mushroom
Sleep Sand: - Dill Juice
Sleepwort: - Lettuce
Snake: - Bistort
Snakes ball of thread: - soapstone
Snakes head: - leech
Sopewort:  - Soapwort/Bruisewort.
Sorcerer's Violet:  - Periwinkle
Sparrow's Tongue: -  Knotweed
St. John's Herb:  - Hemp Agrimony. (not St. John's Wort)
St. John's Plant: -  Mugwort
Star Flower:  - Borage
Star of the Earth: - Avens
Starweed: Chickweed
Starwort: - Aster
Sweethearts:  - Goosegrass
Sweetscented Cactus:  - Largeflowered Cactus
Swine's Snout: - Dandelion leaves.
Tail:  - Willow Stem
Tanner's Bark: - Common Oak
Tarragon: - Mugwort
Tartar Root:  - Ginseng
Tears of Hamadryas baboon: - dill juice
Teeth: -  Pine cones
Thousand Seal: - Yarrow
Thousand Weed:  - Yarrow
Thunder Plant: - House Leek
Titan's Blood: -  Wild Lettuce.
Toad :  - Toadflax, sage
Toe: - Leaf
Tongue: -  Petal
Tongue of Dog: - Hound's Tongue
Tongue of a Turnip: -  Turnip leaves
Torches:  - Great Mullein
Unicorn's Horn: -  False or True Unicorn Root: Ague Root
Urine:  - Dandelion
Wax Dolls:  - Fumitory
Weasel:  - rue
Weasel Snout: - Yellow Dead Nettles
Weed:  - OxEye Daisy
White Man's Foot:  - Common Plantain
White Wood:  - White Cinnamon
White: -  Oxeye Daisy
Wing: -  leaf
Witch's Asprin: -  White Willow/Willow Bark
Witches Bells: Foxglove
Witch's Brier: - Brier Hips
Witches' Gloves:  - Foxglove
Witches Grass: - Dog Grass
Witches Herb: - Mugwort
Witchwood: -  Rowen
Wolf Claw: - -  Club Moss
Wolf Foot:  - Bugle Weed
Wolf's Milk: -  Euphorbia
Woodpecker: - Peony
Worms: - Thin roots