root cathartic

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Search for Cathartic - Plants For A Future database search
... running by making a donation with paypal. Back to main Search Page Search for plant uses: Cathartic: A strong laxative but less violent than a purgative. (90) Latin Name Common Name Use Edibility ... Cathartic 1 2 Veratrum album White Hellebore Cathartic 0 2 Veronicastrum virginicum Beaumont's Root Cathartic 0 3 Viola canina Dog Violet Cathartic 3 1 Search for keyword: All the information contained in ...
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Medicinal Herb Garden - Iris versicolor
... salicylic acid and yet unidentified substances medicinal property is an oleoresin Iridin or Irisin are powdered extractives, with diuretic and aperient properties, might be hepatic stimulant North American Indians used the root for dropsy and as a cathartic and emetic the leaves of the iris may have some medicinal properties as well; bruised, fresh leaves ...
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Pokeweed Phytolacca americana uses Poke Salet
... and branching, turning deep red or purple as the berries ripen and the plant matures. The root is conical, large and fleshy, covered with a thin brown bark. Leaves are about 5 inches ... cooked and the resulting liquid used to color canned fruits and vegetables. The root is alterative, anodyne, antiinflammatory, cathartic, expectorant, hypnotic, narcotic and purgative. It is used in the treatment of ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Bitter Root - Herb Profile and Information
... substitute for hemp, in making twine, bags, fishing-nets and lines, and linen. The milky root is found in commerce in cylindrical, branched pieces, about a quarter of an inch thick ... Hemp, American Hemp, Amyroot, Bowman's Root, Indian Physic Bitter Root, Rheumatism Weed, Milkweed, Wild Cotton, Choctaw Root, is diuretic, expectorant, diaphoretic, emetic, and cathartic. It should not be substituted for ...
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botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Black Root - Herb Profile and Information
... the crystalline principle and the impure resin obtained by precipitating with water a tincture of the root have been called Leptandrin and is said to be the active principle. The properties are extracted ... acid are also obtained. ---Medicinal Action and Uses---The fresh root is a violent cathartic and may also be emetic. The dried root is milder and less certain. Leptandrin excites the liver gently ...
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... useful for various ills including bronchitis and urinary tract problems. She appends the recipe for this concoction. The root, however, is also described by Mrs. Grieve as poisonous and, speaking as one who has cut many ... used by the Greeks and Romans as a purgative and cathartic, and later given as a purgative to horses and cattle (one pound of the root boiled in water, take note). I was glad to ...
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Medicinal Herbs
... All parts of the plant are edible and can be used to medicinal effect: the leaf, flowers, root and whole-plant tincture. The slipperiness of the leaf when you chew it is a good ... and digestive distress. (1-5 tsp/day). Violet roots are antipyretic, diuretic, expectorant, emollient, emetic and cathartic. Violet root is used for reducing coughs, cooling fevers, and soothing sore feet. It can be toxic ...
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Betula lenta L.
... flavor in such things as baked goods, candies, chewing gums, dairy desserts, gelatins, puddings, and root beer, rarely constituting as much as 0.1% of candy (Leung, 1980). Used in cosmetic ... bark tea for colds, dysentery, milky urine, and stomach ailments. Delaware used the bark decoction as cathartic or emetic. Iroquois used it for colds, fever, soreness, and venereal diseases. Ojibwa used bark as ...
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Medical Page 2(l)
... also said to cleanse the blood. The root was mixed with the inner bark of chokecherry and water, and drank in small doses for scrofula, it is mildly cathartic. Liatris aspera Michx. (blazing star) ... and corm were boiled together and drunk for diarrhea in children. Lilium canadense L. (lily) The root was mixed with water and applied to snake bites. Lilium umbellatum Pursh. Flowers were pulverized or ...
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Wallace W Hansen Northwest Native Plant Nursery and Gardens Old Medical Uses for Native Plants
... into tea for bronchitis. Fruits are made into tea and used as wash on poison oak. Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Kinnikinnik, Bearberry Diuretic Leaves, dried Asarum caudatum Wild Ginger Emetic, cathartic, errhine, whooping cough, flatulence, indigestion, fever, cold, heart condition, sweat lodge, expectorant. Rhizome, dried; also roots Some say it promotes sneezing, helpful for head colds. Make into tea ...
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