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 | Cudweed Other Names: Cotton Weed. March Everlasting
Botanical Name: Graphalium uliginosum
Family: N.O. Compositae |
Description: |
| Stalk branched, diffused; flowers crowded, termina tiny; leaves elliptical, tapering into a long foot-stalk, slightly downy and greenish above, whitish and more downy underneath. The ends of the branches crowded with nurnerous heads of nearly sessile flowers which appear in August. |
Habitat: |
| Marshy places in most parts of Europe. |
Medicinal Usage: |
Quinsy, gargle astringent, infusion 1 OZ. to 1 pint boiling water taken internally in wineglassful; also used as a gargle.
Fluid extract: Dose, 1/2 to 1 drachm. |
Ancient Lore: |
CUDWEED
FILAGINELLA ULIGINOSA (= GNAPHALIUM ULIGINOSUM)
It is drunk or injected for the disease called tenesmus, which is an often provocation to stool without doing anything. The Cudweed, Marsh Cudweed or Cottonweed has a thick stalk with whitish and woody leaves. The flowers are small and yellowish.
Where to find it: Damp waste ground.
Flowering time: Early to midsummer.
Astrology: Venus is lady of it.
Medicinal virtues: The plants are all astringent, binding or drying and therefore profitable for all defluxions of rheum from the head and to stay fluxes of blood. The decoction is made into red wine or the powder is taken. It stayeth the immoderate courses of women and is also good for inward and outward wounds or bruises and helpeth children with ruptures or worms. The juice of the herb, as Pliny saith, is a sovereign remedy against the mumps and quinsy.
Modern uses: It is an astringent. The infusion made from 1 oz (28 g) of the dried herb to 1 pt (568 ml) of boiling water is used as a gargle for peritonsillar abscess. |
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