Health Benefits of Dandelions. By Peter Gail | leaflady.org All the above curative functions, and more, have been attributed to one plant known to everyone, Taraxacum officinale, which means the "Official Remedy for Disorders.
" We call it the common dandelion. Doctor Quave, Medicine Woman. Rabbit Tobacco - College Essays - Krazyhazy. My grandmother grew up in Americus, GA, a rural town over 100 miles south of Atlanta.
Her parents were of Cherokee descent, so I asked her about any herbal remedies passed down to her. She told me of several, but the one that she remembered with the most clarity was rabbit tobacco. Rabbit tobacco is also known as lasting, everlasting, sweet balsam, white balsam, feather-weed, and sweet cudweed. Its scientific name is Gaphalium obtusifolium. These annual herbs reach a height of 1 to 3 feet and have erect stems with brown, shriveled leaves persisting into winter and stems covered with felt-like hairs in summer. An Intuitive Study of Rabbit Tobacco. Gnaphalium obtusifolium L. By Matthew Wood, MSc (Herbal Medicine) An Intuitive Study of Rabbit Tobacco Gnaphalium obtusifolium L.
Sweet Everlasting, Cudweed, Old Field Balsam, Sweet White Balsam, Herbs.