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Bot.: Polygala amara L.
Healing power:
- for blood cleansing - as diuretic - as cough medicine - for asthma - for lack of appetite - for stomach trouble - rheumatism - goud - kidney trouble - In homoeopathy the remedy Polygala amara is used as cough medicine for persistent bronchial mucous. How to use:
Pick the whole plant: roots, stems, leaves and flowers and dry it.
Recipe for the Bitter milkwort tea:
Pour 1/4 litre water on 2 dessert spoons Bitter milkwort, boil it only for a short time, then pass it through a sieve. Drink 1 cup of Bitter milkwort tea 2 to 3 times per day. Description of the plant:
Bitter milkwort reaches a height up to 20 cm, flowers blue from Mai to August and loves moist places on meadows and pathes. Cultivation:
By seeds. Ingredients:
Essential oil, bitter constituents, tanning agents, saponines.
