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AGRIMONIA EUPATORIA

AGRIMONY

A common wild plant with slender spikes of bright yellow flowers. The whole herb is used. Culpeper recommended it for gout “used outwardly in an oil or ointment, or inwardly, in a syrup or juice.”

USES

 As a tea or tincture for indigestion, heartburn, diarrhea, and liverish feelings. Especially helpful for people suffering from food allergies—on a long-term basis.

 With St. John’s wort and horsetail for bed-wetting and chronic cystitis.

 As a lotion for the cleansing of wounds.

AGRIMONY DIGESTIVE TONIC

Combine equal parts of agrimony, raspberry leaf, and lemon balm (Melissa officinalis). Store away from the light. Make a tea from 1 teaspoon of the mixture to 1 cup of boiling water, and drink freely for colicky pains with looseness and nervous diarrhea.

PROPERTIES

 Astringent and tonic

 Tones and strengthens the digestive system and liver

 A wound herb

NOTES AND DOSAGES

 Standard doses (see pages here).

 Agrimony makes a tasty substitute for normal tea.

CAUTION

May aggravate constipation, but otherwise a safe and gentle herb to use.