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Herbal Substitutions
Dangerous
Plants to avoid Herbal
Substituations
At some
point in your herbal workings, your bound to come across a mixture that
calls for an herb or herbs that you simply can not find. Thankfully, there
are substitutions that can be successfully used in their place.
Along
with substitutions, I have included a list of herbs that should NOT be
used under any circumstances by anyone who is not an expert herbalist.
Why? Many of them are poisonous and can seriously harm or kill you if you
don't know how to use them.

Dangerous
Plants
Do NOT
eat or experiment with any of the following plants unless you really
know what your doing.
-
Aconite
-
Bittersweet
-
Black nightshade
-
Blue flag
-
Burning
bush
-
Calabar
bean
-
Calico
bush
-
Camphor
-
Castor
oil plant (seeds)
-
Celandine
-
Christmas
rose (root)
-
Cowbane
-
Daffodils
-
Deadly
nightshade
-
Dog's mercury
-
Elkweed
-
Ergot
-
Flag lily
-
Foxglove
-
Gelsemium
-
Hemlock
-
Hellebore
-
Henbane
-
Holly (seeds)
-
Honysuckle
(vine and fruits)
-
Horse balm
-
Ilex
-
Impatiens
pallida
-
Indian
arrowroot
-
Inkberry
-
Jack-in-the-pulpit
(root)
-
Jerusalem
cherry
-
Jimsonweed
-
Laburnum
(seeds)
-
Laulel
(seeds)
-
Mandrake
-
Mayapple
(roots, leaves, seeds)
-
Mistletoe
(seeds)
-
Poisetta
-
Poison
Dogwood, Flag, Hemlock, Ivy, Oak, and Sumac
-
Poke root
-
Rosebay
-
Springle
tree (seeds)
-
Spurge
-
Swallow
wort
-
Thorn apple
-
Tobacco
(concentrated tobacco is a deadly poison when eaten)
-
Wahoo
-
Wake-robin
-
Water dropwort
-
White hemlock
-
White bryony
-
Winter
rose
-
Wood anemone
(seeds)
-
Yellow
jasmine
-
Yew (seeds
and berries)

Herbal
Substitutions
-
Rosemary
can substitute any other herb
-
Rose for
any flower
-
Frankincense
or copal for any gum or resin
-
Tobacco
for any poisonous herb. *if you are not an expert herbalist, substitute
bay leaves for any mixture that calls for tobacco. It's safe, cheap
and very effective.
-
Acacia
- Gum arabic
-
Aconite
- Tobacco
-
Arabic,
gum - Frankincense: fum mastic, gum tragacanth (for binding wet indredients,
not incense).
-
Ammoniac,
gum - Asafoetida
-
Asafoetida
- Tobacco, valarian
-
Balm of
Gilead - Rose buds, gum mastic
-
Belladonna
- Tobacco
-
Benzion
- gum arabic, gum mastic
-
Cachana
- Angelica root
-
Camphor
oil - Eucalyptus oil, lavender oil
-
Carnation
- Rose petals anointed with a few drops of clove oil
-
Cassia:
Cinnamon (which is less expensive)
-
Castor
Bean - A few drops of castor oil
-
Cedar -
Sandalwood
-
Cinquefoil
- clover, trefoil
-
Ciron -
equal parts of orange and lemon peel
-
Clove -
mace, nutmeg
-
Clover
- Cinquefoil
-
Copal -
Frankincence, cedar
-
Cowbane
- Tobacco
-
Cypress
- Juniper, pine needles
-
Deerstongue
- Tonka bean (not for internal use), woodruff, vanilla
-
Dttany
of Crete - gum mastic
-
Dragon's
Blood - Equal parts of franinsence and red sandalwood
-
Eucalyptus
Oil - Camphor oil, lavendar oil
-
Euphorbium
- Tobacco
-
Frankincense
- Copal, pine resin
-
Galangal
- Ginger root
-
Grains
of Paradise - Black peper
-
Gum ammoniac
- Asafoetida
-
Gum bdellium
- Colal, pine resin, dragon's blood
-
Hellebore
- Tobacco, nettle
-
Hemlock
- Tobacco
-
Hemp -
Nutmeg, Damiana, star anise, bay
-
Henbane
- Tobacco
-
Hyssop
- Lavender
-
Ivy - Cinquefoil
-
Jasmine
- Rose
-
Juniper
- Pine
-
Lavender
- Rose
-
Lemongrass
- Lemon peel
-
Lemon Verbena
- Lemongrass, lemon peel
-
Mace -
Nutmeg
-
Mandrake
- Tobacco
-
Mastic,
gum - Gum arabic, frankincense
-
Mint (any
type) - Sage
-
Mistetoe
- Mint, sage
-
Mugwort
- Wormwood
-
Neroli
oil - Orange oil
-
Nightshade
- Tobacco
-
Nutmeg
- Mace, cinnamon
-
Oakmoss
- Patouly
-
Orange
- Tangerine peel
-
Orange
flowers - Orange peel
-
Patchouly
- Oak moss
-
Peppermint
- Spearmint
-
Pepperwort
- Rue, grains of paradise, black pepper
-
Pine -
Juniper
-
Pine resing
- Frankincense, copa;
-
Red sandalwood
- Sandalwood mixed with a pinch of dragon's blood
-
Rose -
Yarrow
-
Rose geranium
- Rose
-
Rue - Rosemary
mixed with a pinch of black pepper
-
Saffron
- Orange peel (far less expensive)
-
Sandalwood
- Cedar
-
Sarsaparilla
- Sassafras
-
Sassagras
- Sarsaparilla
-
Spearmint
- Peppermint
-
Sulfur
- Tobacco, club moss, asafoetida
-
Thyme -
Rosemary
-
Tobacco
- Bay leaves
-
Tonka Bean
- Deerstongue, woodruff, vannila bean
-
Trefoil
- Cinquefoil
-
Valerian
- Asafoetida
-
Vanilla
- Woodruff, deerstongue, tonka bean
-
Vetivert
- Calamus
-
Wolfsvane
- Tobacco
-
Wood Aloe
- Sandalwood sprinkled with ambergris oil
-
Woodruff
- Deerstongue, vanilla
-
Wormwood
- Mugwort
-
Yarrow
- Rose
-
Yew - Tobacco
