Medicinal properties: This plant is helpful for treating blood conditions. It helps the body’s system to function normally and eliminate waste properly. It is used to lower haemorrhaging and treat skin problems that are associated to blood issues.
American Indians prepare tea from leaves to treat female problems such as childbirth pain, as a blood tonic, regulate menses, stomachaches and bleeding.
Indications and directions for use:
Root teas are used for treating loose teeth, stomach ulcers, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhoea, menorrhagia and leucorrhoea.
It is an aid for chills, bilious and intermittent fevers, diabetes, scrofula, and skin diseases and in constitutional syphilis.
Parts used: Whole plant (fresh or sun-dried)
Leaves (air-dried)
A $3 million cancer study involving ironweed is being conducted over the course of five years at the University of Hawaii Cancer Centre. Scientific researchers will study how the compounds in ironweed extract could be used to treat (and perhaps even cure) both brain and breast cancers. If the ironweed plant extract performs as aggressively as hoped, it could ultimately be used in place of more conventional forms of cancer treatment, like chemotherapy.
THOUGH THE CONTENT OF THIS BLOG HAD BEEN TRIED & TESTED AND HAD BEEN USED AS FOLK/HERBAL MEDICINE IT IS STILL BEST TO CONSULT YOUR DOCTOR.
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