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BIBLICAL HERBSFOR CENTRAL FLORIDA
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BIBLICAL HERBS THAT GROW IN CENTRAL
FLORIDA CHRISTIAN BIBLE HEBREW BIBLE
QURAN Aloe Vera Bay Tree Aloe
Vera Dill Castor Bean Castor Bean
Mint Coriander Fenugreek
Rue Fennel Violet Fig tree Fig
tree Garlic Garlic Marjoram
Ginger Sage Sweet Basil Wormwood

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CHRISTIAN BIBLE
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(QU) Aloe Vera Aloe vera John 1938-40
And there came also Nicodemus, which at the
first came to Jesus by night, and brought a
mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound
weight. Then they took the body of Jesus, and
wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the
manner of the Jews is to bury.
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Aloe Vera Aloe vera Some biblical
authorities believe Aloe vera was the herb used
in Jesus burial. Growing Season
Perennial Medicinal Uses Medicinal
burns, soothes itches from rashes and insects
bites
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Mint Menthe spp. Matthew 2323 Woe unto
you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye
pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have
omitted the weightier matters of the law,
judgment, mercy, and faith these ought ye to
have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Luke 1142 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for
ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs,
and pass over judgment and the love of God these
ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
undone.
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The mint was either Mentha longifolia,
horsemint Mentha piperita,
peppermint Growing Season Perennial Comm
on Uses Culinary dried leaves Medicinal
Uses Extensive, including indigestion
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Violet Viola odorata James 110f ...the
rich will disappear like a flower in the
field. For the sun rises with its
scorching heat and withers the field
its flower falls, and its beauty perishes.
It is the same way with the rich in the
midst of a busy life, they will wither
away. The common belief is that the flower
referenced is the violet.
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Violet Viola odorata Growing Season
Perennial, shade Common Uses Culinary
salads, both leaves and flowers
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HEBREW BIBLE
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Bay Tree Laurus nobilis Psalm 3735 I have
seen the wicked in great power, and spreading
himself like a leafy tree in its native soil.

leafy tree is the Bay or Sweet Bay tree.
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Bay Tree Laurus nobilis
Growing Season Perennial Common Uses
Culinary dried leaves Medicinal
Use Extensive including relieving
indigestion, poor appetite and
easing arthritic aches and
pains.
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Coriander Coriandrum sativum
Exodus 1631 And the house of Israel called
the name thereof Manna and it was like coriander
seed, white and the taste of it was like wafers
made with honey. Numbers 117, 8 Now
the manna was like coriander seed and the
appearance there of as the appearance of
bdellium. The people went about, and gathered
it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in
mortars, and seethed it in pots, and made cakes
of it and the taste of it was as the taste of a
cake baked with oil.
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Coriander Coriandrum sativum
Growing Season Annual, October-May Common Uses
Culinary leaves and seeds
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(QU) Garlic Allium sativum
Numbers 115 We remember the fish, which we
were wont to eat in Egypt for nought the
cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the
onions, and the garlic
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Garlic Allium sativum
Growing Season Perennial Common Uses
Culinary leaves, bulbs Medicinal Use
Extensive including treating colds,
bronchitis, gastroenteritis and
distancing unwanted companionships
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Marjoram Origanum majorana (Also referred to as
Sweet Marjoram
Exodus 1222 And ye shall take a bunch of
hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the
basin, and strike the lintel and the two
side-posts with the blood that is in the basin
and none of you shall go out of the door of his
house until the morning.
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Marjoram Origanum majorana
Leviticus 144, then shall the priest command to
take for him that is to be cleansed two living
clean birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop. Leviticus 146 As for the living
bird, he shall take it, and the cedar-wood, and
the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them
and the living bird in the blood of the bird that
was killed over the running water.
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Marjoram Origanum majorana
Leviticus 1452 And he shall cleanse the house
with the blood of the bird, and with the running
water, and with the living bird, and with the
cedar wood, and with the hyssop, and with the
scarlet. Numbers 196 And the priest shall
take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and
cast it into the midst of the burning of the
heifer.
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Marjoram Origanum majorana
Numbers 1918 And a clean person shall take
hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it
upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon
the persons that were there, and upon him that
touched the bone, or the slain, or the dead, or
the grave. Palms 519 Purge me with hyssop,
and I shall be clean wash me, and I shall be
whiter than snow.
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Marjoram Origanum majorana
Growing Season Annual, October-May, semi
shade Common Uses Culinary leaves
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Sage Salvia
Exodus 3717 And he made the candlestick of pure
gold of beaten work made he the candlestick,
even its base, and its shaft its cups, its
knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with
it. Exodus 3718 And there were six branches
going out of the sides thereof three branches of
the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and
three branches of the candlestick out of the
other side thereof
Salvia judaica
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Sage Salvia
Annual
Perennial
Herb
Growing Season Sage Annual,
October-May Common Uses Culinary sage,
leaves
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QURAN
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(CB) Aloe Vera Aloe vera From Medicine of the
Prophet by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Abu Dawud
related in the Kitab al-Marasil, from hadith of
Qays b. Rafi al Qaysi that the Messenger of G-d
said In what two bitter things lies healing?
Aloe and thuffa. Growing Season
Perennial Medicinal Uses Medicinal
burns, soothes itches from rashes and insects
bites
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(HB) Fig tree Ficus carica Surah 951
Consider the fig and the olive, Commentary
from the Plants of the Noble Quran Allah
swears by the fig, olive, Mount Sinai and Mecca
that Man has been created on this earth in the
best possible mold and conditions.
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Fig tree Ficus carica
The best variety for Central Florida is Brown
Turkey Growing Season Perennial Common
Uses Culinary fruit Medicinal Use Variety
of uses including aiding in constipation
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(HB) Garlic Allium sativum
Surah 2 61 And remember when you said "O
Moses, indeed we cannot endure but one kind of
food pray, then, to thy Sustainer that He bring
forth for us aught of what grows from the earth -
of its herbs, its cucumbers, its garlic, its
lentils, its onions." (partial text)
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Ginger Zingiber officinale Surah 76 17
And they will be given to drink there of a Cup
(of wine), mixed with zanjabil, Zanjabil is
the reference to ginger
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Ginger Zingiber officinale Growing
Season Perennial, shade Common Uses
Culinary Medicinal Uses Digestion, stomach
upset, diarrhea, and nausea
culinary
decorative
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Sweet Basil Ocimum basilicum Surah 5512
Also corn, with (its) leaves and stalk for
fodder, and sweet-smelling plants (rayhan). In
some Islamic cultures the sweet-smelling plant
(rayhan) is thought to be Sweet Basil. Growing
Season Annual, March-December Common Uses
Culinary
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Genesis 130-31
And G-d said  "Behold, I have given you every
herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all
the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit
of a tree yielding seed -- to you it shall be for
food and to every beast of the earth, and to
every fowl of the air, and to every thing that
creeps upon the earth, wherein there is a living
soul, (I have given) every green herb for food". 
And it was so.    
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Sourcespartial list All the Plants of the
Bible, Winifred Walker Inventory of Medicinal
Plants Used in the Traditional Arabic Medicine
http//www.islamset.com/sc/plants/pana.html Jewis
h Publication Society Bible Index
http//theology101.org/bib/jps/index.htm Medicine
of the Prophet, Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Planting
a Biblical Garden, E. Nigel Hepper Plants of the
Noble Quran http//www.ummah.net/islam/taqwapalac
e/fitness/health2.html 100 Plants in the
Biblical Garden http//www.sover.net/hkfamily/Pag
es/PlantList.html
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BIBLICAL HERBSFOR CENTRAL FLORIDA
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