stiffness. Tea made from the dried root is good for sour or upset stomach. Dose: 1 oz. of the root to 1 pint of boiling water, and infusion of the fresh root in the same proportions used for gravel in the bladder and kidneys. The bitter, milky juice flows from the rind, which is the medicinal virtues it possesses. The cold preparation taken a mouthful at a time two or three times a day. Externally: The juice of the bruised leaves applied externally allays swelling and inflammation pain due to abundance of milk. Homoeopathic Clinical: Tincture or trituration of dried root— Amblyopia, Constipation, Headache. Russian Experience: Tzicory( Chicory) is very popular in Russian Folk Medicine and clinical practice. It is a food supplement alone, or with combinations of ordinary coffee and other herbal teas. Clinically: As antiseptic and astringent alone, or combined as a sedative of the central nervous system and heart conditions. Medically as Carminative, Tonic, Astringent, Digestive, used in cases of Liver inefficiency.
CLEAVERS Galium aparine, L.( N. O.: Rubiaceae)
Common Names: Goose Grass, Catchstraw, Bedstraw, Cleavers. Features: Common to Europe and the United States, growing in cultivated grounds, moist thickets and along banks of rivers; flowering from June to September; stems rough and weak but very lengthy, with little prickly hooks and many side branches, always in pairs; leaves small and six to nine on the round stem, topped with very small white flowers of petals in arrangement of the Maltese cross. Medicinally the green herb may be used as well as the dry. The root is a permanent red dye. Medicinal Part: The whole herb. Solvent: Water( do not boil). Bodily Influence: Diuretic, Tonic, Refrigerant, Alterative, Aperient. Uses: Notably one of our best-known herbs for obstructions of the urinary organs, especially when combined with Broom, Uva ursi, Buchu and Marshmallow. It is particularly useful for stones or gravel and seems to soften and reduce the calculous and / or accumulation to where it can be eliminated, making sure the bowels are active at all times.
For children or adults suffering from scalding urine it is invaluable and the refrigerant qualities are soothing in cases of scarlet fever, measles and all acute diseases. The book“ Vitalogy”( 1925) by Dr. Wood and Dr. Ruddock says:“ The cold infusion will remove freckles when it is drunk two or three times a day, for two or three months and the parts frequently washed with it, and has recently been used with decided success in treating children for bed wetting, it should be drunk three times a day.”
Claudie V. James( 1963) gives us another use:“ The juice mixed with oatmeal to the consistency of a poultice and applied over an indolent tumour three times a day, keeping the bowels open and taking a teaspoonful of the juice every morning, will often drive the tumour away in a few days. It is one of the best known herbs for reducing.”