Benefits

Liver

• Helps clear congestion and stagnation issues
• Can provide beneficial liver stimulation
• Helps prevent gallstones

As an Infusion

• Can improve and speed recovery from severe colds and flu’s
• Stimulates sweating to help remove toxins
• May enhance immune response to help clear other feverish conditions
• Used as a mouthwash, helps heal mouth ulcers and spongy gums

Cleanser and Clearing

• Beneficial as a urinary cleanser and astringent
• May assist in clearing phlegm from lungs

Healing

• Helps heal pulmonary issues such as asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis
• Works as an anti-inflammatory for sore and inflamed eyes
• Helps reduce and/or eliminate obstructions in bowels and bladder
• Can expel phlegm from the throat
• As an ointment, may improve eczema, wounds, weeping sores and painful neuralgia
• As a poultice, may help heal insect bites, sprains and bruises
• Has been used for gout and skin infections

Sleep Issues

• Can help improve insomnia, especially when used as a hot infusion

Hormonal/Child Birth

• Assists with painful and/or irregular menstrual cycles

Nursing and Child Birth

• Helps support milk production
• May support contractions during labor

Nerve Support and Stress

• As a Bach Flower Essence, was used to treat mental stress and overexertion
• Can function as a beneficial nerve rebuilder
• Helps minimize nervous tension

Parts of the plant used include for therapeutic purposes:  tops