The Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants by Wood Matthew

Author:Wood, Matthew [Wood, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781583944240
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2011-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

Traditional, Matthew Wood (1–5, 14, 17, 20), A. W. and L. R. Priest (19), Maude Grieve (3), Dorothy Hall (15, 16), Christopher Menzies-Trull (6, 7, 9, 15, 16), Edwin Hale (homeopathic uses), Gideon Lincecum (Indian uses), Maria Treben (21), Julia Graves (12, 13), David Winston (18), Yadubir Sinha (23), Rolla Thomas (20).

Galium odoratum. Sweet Woodruff.

This little bedstraw is native to woodland in Europe, but can be grown as an ornamental and is naturalized in North America. It has an ancient, rather than modern, reputation in medicine, and is known as a “witch’s remedy.” In Germany it is called waldmeister, or “master of the woods,” presumably in reference to its occult powers. It has a sweet, aromatic scent that betrays the presence of coumarins, also found in other members of this family. In addition it contains flavonoids, anthraquinones, tannins, and iridoid alkaloids.

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