Supplement, Vitamin and Herb Ingredient Glossary
Ingredient Glossary: W
- Wafer Ash
- A plant. The root bark is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Orme de Samarie, Pickaway Anise, Prairie Grub, Ptelea trifoliata, Scubby Trefoil, Stinking Prairie Bush, Swamp Dogwood, Three-Leaved Hop Tree, Wingseed.
- Wahoo
- A tree. The trunk, root bark, and fruit are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Arrowwood, Bitter Ash, Bleeding Heart, Burning Bush, Bursting Heart, Eastern Burning Bush, Euonymus atropurpureus, Fish Wood, Fusain, Fusanum, Fusoria, Gadrose, Gatten, Gatter, Indian Arrowroot, Indian Arrowwood, Pegwood, Pigwood, Prickwood, Skewerwood, Spindle Tree, Strawberry Bush, Strawberry Tree.
- Wallflower
- A plant. The above ground pieces are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Beeflower, Cheiranthus cheiri, Erysimum cheiri, Gillyflower, Giroflée des Murailles, Giroflier, Handflower, Keiri, Wallstock-Gillofer.
- Water Avens
- A plant. The whole plant is used for medicine.
- Also known as: Benoîte des Ruisseaux, Cariofilada Acuática, Chocolate Root, Cure All, Geum rivale, Indian Chocolate, Throat Root, Water Chisch, Water Flower.
- Water Dock
- A plant. The dried root is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Paradella Aquàtica, Rumex aquaticus.
- Water Dropwort
- An herb. The whole plant is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Céleri d'Eau, Damoe, Flamingo, Java Dropwort, Oenanthe javanica, Oenanthe stolonifera, Pak Chi Lawm, Rainbow Water Celery, Selom, Seri, Shelum, Sui-Kan, Water Celery, Water Parsley.
- Water Fennel
- A plant. The ripe seeds are used for medicine.
- Also known as: Fenouil Aquatique, Fine Leaf Water Dropwort, Horsebane, Oenanthe aquatica, Oenanthe Aquatique, Water Dropwort, Water Hemlock.
- Water Germander
- A plant. The above ground pieces are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Germandrée des Marais, Teucrium scordium.
- Water Hemlock
- A plant. The entire plant is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Beaver Poison, Brook-Tongue, Carotte a Moreau, Children's Bane, Cicuta, Cicuta bulbifera, Cicuta californica, Cicuta douglasii, Cicuta mackenzieana, Cicuta maculata, Cicuta occidentalis, Cicuta vagans, Cicuta virosa, Cigüe Aquatique, Cique Vireuse, Cowbane, Death-of-Man, European Water Hemlock, False Parsley, Fever Root, Mockeel Root, Muskrat Weed, Musquash Root, Poison Parsnip, Sium douglasii, Snake Weed, Snakeroot, Spotted Cowbane, Spotted Hemlock, Spotted Parsley, Wasser-Schierling, Wild Carrot, Wild Dill, Wild Parsnip.
- Water Plantain
- A plant. The root and underground stem (rhizome) are used for medicine.
- Also known as: Alisma, Alisma Plantain d'Eau, Alismatis Plantago, Alisma plantago-aquatica, Alisma plantago-aquatica subsp. orientale, Alisma orientale, Alisma plantago-aquatica var. orientale, Alismatis Plantago, American Water Plantain, Asian Water Plantain, Llanten de Agua, Mad-Dog Weed, Plantain, Rhizoma Alismatis, Ze Xie.
- Watercress
- A plant. The above ground pieces are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Agriao, Berro, Berro Di Agua, Berros, Brunnenkresse, Crescione Di Fonte, Cresson, Cresson au Poulet, Cresson D'eau, Cresson De Fontaine, Indian Cress, Jal-Halim, Mizu-Garashi, Nasilord, Nasturtii Herba, Nasturtium officinale, Oranda-Garashi, Radicula nasturtium, Rorippa nasturtium, Scurvy Grass, Sisymbrium nasturtium, Selada-Air, Tall Nasturtium, Wasserkresse, Waterkres.
- Wheat Bran
- A plant. The outer shell of the grain is used for medicine.
- Also known as: Bran, Cereal Fiber, Dietary Fiber, Gehun, Godhoom, Salvado de Trigo, Son de Blé, Triticum aestrivum, Triticum sativum, Wheat, Wheat Dextrin.
- Wheatgrass
- A type of grass. The above ground pieces, roots, and rhizome are used for medicine.
- Also known as: Agropyre, Agropyron, Agropyron repens, Agropyron firmum, Blé en Herbe, Brote del Trigo, Couchgrass, Couch Grass, Cutch, Dog Grass, Dog-grass, Doggrass, Durfa Grass, Elytrigia repens, Elymus repens, Graminis Rhizoma, Herbe de Blé, Quack Grass, Quackgrass, Quitch Grass, Scotch Quelch, Triticum, Triticum firmum, Triticum repens, Twitchgrass, Wheat Grass, Witch Grass.
- Whey Protein
- The protein contained in whey, the watery portion of milk that separates from the curds when making cheese.
- Also known as: Bovine Whey Protein Concentrate, Concentré de Protéine de Petit-Lait Bovin, Fraction de Lactosérum, Fraction de Petit-Lait, Goat Milk Whey, Goat Whey, Isolat de Protéine de Lactosérum, Isolat de Protéine de Petit-Lait, Lactosérum de Lait de Chèvre, MBP, Milk Protein, Milk Protein Isolate, Mineral Whey Concentrate, Proteínas del Suero de la Leche, Protéine de Lactosérum, Protéine de Lait, Protéine de Petit-Lait, Whey, Whey Fraction, Whey Peptides, Whey Protein Concentrate, Whey Protein Hydrolysate, Whey Protein Isolate.
- White Cohosh
- An herb. The whole plant is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Actaea alba, Actaea pachypoda, Actaea rubra, Actée Pachypoda, Baneberry, Cohosh Blanco, Coralberry, Doll's Eye, Snakeberry, White Baneberry.
- White Hellebore
- An herb. The bulb and root are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: European Hellebore, European White Hellebore, Langwort, Veratre Blanc, Veratrum album, White Hellibore.
- White Horehound
- A plant. The above ground pieces are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Common Horehound, Horehound, Houndsbane, Marrube Blanc, Marrubii Herba, Marrubio Blanco, Marrubium, Marrubium vulgare, Mastranzo.
- White Lily
- An herb. The root and bulb are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Baurenlilien, Farmer's Lily, Lilium candidum, Lis Blanc, Madonna Lily, Meadow Lily, White Pond Lily.
- White Mustard
- An herb. The seeds are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: American Yellow Mustard, Bai Jie Zi, Brassica alba, Moutarde Blanche, Sinapis alba, Weibe Senfsamen, White Mustard Flour, White Mustard Greens, White Mustard Oil, White Mustard Paste, White Mustard Plaster, White Mustard Powder, White Mustard Seed, Yellow Mustard.
- White Sandalwood
- An evergreen tree. The oil from the wood and the wood are used as medicine.
- Also known as: Ananditam, Chandan, Chandana, East Indian Sandalwood, Oil of Sandalwood, Safed-Chandan, Sandal Tree, Sanderswood, Santal, Santal Blanc, Santali Lignum Albi, Santal oil, Santalum album, Swet Chandan, Taliaparnam, Tan Xiang, White Sandalwood oil, White Saunders, Yellow Sandalwood, Yellow Saunders.
- White Soapwort
- An herb. The root is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Gypsophila paniculata, Gypsophilae radix, Gypsophile Paniculé, Soapwort.
- Wild Carrot
- A plant. The above ground pieces and and oil made from the seeds are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Beesnest Plant, Bird's Nest Root, Carotte Sauvage, Daucus, Daucus carota, Garijara, Nan He Shi, Queen Anne's Lace, Shikha-Mula, Zanahoria Silvestre.
- Wild Cherry
- A plant. The bark is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Black Cherry, Black Choke, Cerezo Silvestre, Cerisier Sauvage, Choke Cherry, Prunus serotina, Prunus virginiana, Rum Cherry Bark, Virginian Prune, Wild Black Cherry.
- Wild Daisy
- A plant. The above ground pieces are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Bellis perennis, Bruisewort, Pâquerette.
- Wild Indigo
- An herb. The root is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: American Indigo, Añil Silvestre, Baptisia Root, Baptisia tinctoria, Baptista, False Indigo, Horsefly Weed, Indigo Broom, Indigo Sauvage, Indigo Silvestre, Rattlebush, Yellow Broom, Yellow Indigo.
- Wild Lettuce
- A plant. The leaves and latex are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Acrid Lettuce, Bitter Lettuce, German Lactucarium, Green Endive, Lactuca virosa, Lactucarium, Laitue Sauvage, Lechuga Silvestre, Lettuce Opium, Poison Lettuce, Strong-Scented Lettuce.
- Wild Mint
- An herb. The whole plant, before it flowers, is used for medicine.
- Also known as: Joint-Podded Charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, Ravenelle.
- Wild Radish
- An herb. The whole plant, before it flowers, is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Joint-Podded Charlock, Raphanus raphanistrum, Ravenelle.
- Wild Thyme
- An herb. The above ground parts are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Garden Thyme, Iper, Mother of Thyme, Serpolet, Serpyllum, Shepherd's Thyme, Thymus serpyllum.
- Wild Yam
- A plant. The root and bulb are used for medicine.
- Also known as: American Yam, Atlantic Yam, Barbasco, China Root, Colic Root, Devil's Bones, Dioscorea, Dioscoreae, Dioscorea alata, Dioscorea batatas, Dioscorea composita, Dioscorea floribunda, Dioscorea hirticaulis, Dioscorea japonica, Dioscorea macrostachya, Dioscorea mexicana, Dioscorea tepinapensis, Dioscorea villosa, Mexican Yam, Mexican Wild Yam, Ñame Silvestre, Natural DHEA, Phytoestrogen, Rheumatism Root, Rhizoma Dioscorae, Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Shan Yao, Wild Mexican Yam, Yam, Yuma.
- Willard Water
- Chemically processed water containing ingredients such as rock salt, calcium chloride, and magnesium sulfate.
- Also known as: Biowater, Carbonaceous Activated Water, Catalyst Altered Water, Eau d'Willard, Williard's Water.
- Willow Bark
- The bark from several varieties of the willow tree. Used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Basket Willow, Bay Willow, Black Willow, Black Willow Extract, Brittle Willow, Corteza de Sauce, Crack Willow, Daphne Willow, Écorce de Saule, Écorce de Saule Blanc, European Willow, European Willow Bark, Extrait d'Écorce de Saule, Extrait d'Écorce de Saule Blanc, Extrait de Saule, Extrait de Saule Blanc, Knackweide, Laurel Willow, Lorbeerweide, Organic Willow, Osier Blanc, Osier Rouge, Purple Osier, Purple Osier Willow, Purple Willow, Purpurweide, Pussy Willow, Reifweide, Salicis Cortex, Salix alba, Salix daphnoides, Salix fragilis, Salix nigra, Salix pentandra, Salix purpurea, Saule, Saule Argenté, Saule Blanc, Saule Commun, Saule des Viviers, Saule Discolore, Saule Fragile, Saule Noir, Saule Pourpre, Silberweide, Violet Willow, Weidenrinde, White Willow, White Willow Bark, Willowbark, White Willow Extract, Willow Bark Extract.
- Wine
- An alcoholic beverage prepared by fermenting grapes.
- Also known as: Alcohol, Ethanol, Red Wine, Vin, Vino, Vitis vinifera, Wine Extract.
- Winter Cherry
- An herb. The ripened fruit is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Cape Gooseberry, Chinese Lantern, Coqueret, Japanese Lantern, Jin Deng Long, Physalis alkekengi, Strawberry Tomato.
- Winter Savory
- An herb. The leaves and stems are used for medicine.
- Also known as: Calamintha montana, Mountain Savory Oil, Sarriette, Satureja montana, Satureja obovata, Savory.
- Winter's Bark
- The bark of a tree. The powdered bark is used for medicine.
- Also known as: Canelo, Drymis de Winter, Drimys winteri, Pepper Bark, Wintera, Wintera Aromatica, Winter's Cinnamon.
- Wintergreen
- An herb. The leaves and oil are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Boxberry, Canada Tea, Checkerberry, Deerberry, Gaulteria, Gaultheria Oil, Gaultheria procumbens, Ground Berry, Hilberry, Mountain Tea, Oil of wintergreen, Partridge Berry, Spiceberry, Teaberry, Thé des Bois, Wax Cluster.
- Witch Hazel
- A plant. The leaf, bark, and twigs are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Avellano de Bruja, Hamamelis, Hamamélis, Hamamelis virginiana, Hazel, Snapping Tobacco Wood, Spotted Elder, Winter Bloom.
- Wood Anemone
- An herb. The above ground pieces are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Anémone des Bois, Anemone nemorosa, Crowfoot, Smell Fox, Wind Flower.
- Wood Sage
- An herb. The above ground pieces are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Ambroise, Garlic Sage, Germandrée Scorodoine, Hind Heal, Large-Leaved Germander, Sauge des Bois, Teucrium scorodonia
- Wood Sorrel
- A plant. The whole flowering plant is used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Cuckoo Bread, Cuckowes Meat, Fairy Bells, Green Sauce, Hallelujah, Mountain Sorrel, Oxalis, Oxalis acetosella, Oxalis montana, Shamrock, Sour Trefoil, Stickwort, Stubwort, Surelle, Three-Leaved Grass, White Sorrel, Wood Sour.
- Woodbine
- An herb. The leaves and flowers are used to make medicine.
- Also known as: Clematis, Clematis virginiana, Clématite de Virginie, Devil's-Darning-Needle, Herbe aux Gueux, Old Man's Beard, Traveler's Joy, Vine Bower, and Virgin's Bower.
- Wormseed
- An herb. The flowers are used to make medicine.