Medicinal plants found in Afghanistan
- Anise Seed
The Oil is used to flavor bad tasting medicines
- Asafoetida
An antispasmodic: used as a poultice on wounds; to prevent cold; to aid digestion
- Caraway
This is used to improve digestion, blood circulation. It is also used to cover-up
unpleasant tasting medicines
- Common Jujube
This is used for dysentery; to calm fevers; as a stimulant
- Common Olive
The oil is used for constipation
- Common Wormwood
The powder is used to treat malaria
- Coriander
This is used to improve digestion
- Cilician Tulip
The bulbs are eaten to obtain strength
- Cumin
To improve digestion
- Fleawort
This is used as a laxative
- Garlic
This is used for malaria, scorpion stings, and skin infections
- Great Burdock
The roots are used for venereal diseases
- Hairy Onosma
This is basically used to color certain medicines red
- Henbane
The leaves are used as a poultice for syphilitic ulcers
- Holarrhena
The oil is taken to combat dysentery and diarrhea. It is also used as an aphrodisiac
- Leopard bane
This is a depressant; used for snakebites and scorpion stings
- Licorice Root
This is used as a laxative and a masking agent
- Marihuana
Used as a painkiller
- Madwort
This is used for asthma and nervous disorders
- Morning Glory
This is used for lumbago and as a purgative
- Opium poppy
Used as a painkiller
- Oriental Sesame
This is mixed with opium to treat rheumatism
- Red Pepper
This is used to aid digestion
- Rice
Rice water is used for diarrhea and certain chest problems
- Ripple seed Plantain
This is used for diarrhea and dysentery; mucilage is also made from the plant
- Safflower
The oil of safflower is used to treat rheumatism
- Saffron
This is used to cool a fever, and as an antispasmodic and aphrodisiac
- Sage
This plant is used to stop excessive menstrual bleeding
- Santolin Yarrow
Good for headaches and toothaches
- Sweet flag
Just a stimulant
- Yellow bark Cinchona
The powder is used to treat malaria