(Medicinal Herbs) Storksbill
Storksbill Scientific Names and Common Names,Storksbill Biochemical Information,Uses,Warning,Where Found,Parts Usually Used,Storksbill Description of Plant(s) and Culture,Medicinal Properties.
Contents:
Common Names | Parts Usually Used | Plant(s) & Culture | Where Found | Medicinal Properties
Legends, Myths and Stories | Uses | Formulas or Dosages | Nutrient Content | Bibliography
Scientific Names
Alfilaria Heron’s bill Pin clover Red-stem filaree
Common Names
Alfilaria
Heron’s bill
Pin clover
Red-stem filaree
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Parts Usually Used
The leaves
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Description of Plant(s) and Culture
Storksbill is an annual plant, 3 to 12 inches high; the slender, fern-like, hairy, reddish, decumbent stem bears pinnate leaves which, like those of the basal rosette, have sessile, oblong or ovate-oblong leaflets which themselves are pinnatifid into narrow, often toothed lobes. The basal leaves survive through the winter. The purple or pink, geranium-like, 5 petaled, flowers, less than 1/2 inch long, bloom from early spring to late fall. The sepals are terminated by 1 or 2 white, bristle-like hairs which give the plant its name. Seeds are smooth, elongated, and sharp, like a stork’s bill.
Another plant: The plant (Geranium maculatum) is called storksbill but has no relation to Erodium cicutarium.
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Where Found
Native to the Mediterranean region and widely naturalized in dry and sandy soils, waste places of the eastern, southwestern, and western United States, where it is often grown for hay.
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Medicinal Properties
Astringent, hemostatic
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Legends, Myths and Stories
The alum root (Geranium maculatum) is also called storksbill, among other common names.
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Uses
It has been used primarily against bloody discharges from the uterus and to treat difficult or excessive menstruations. Small doses are said to raise blood pressure, and larger doses lower it. Seed poultice is used for gouty tophus. Leaves soaked in water are put in bath water for rheumatic patients.
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Formulas or Dosages
Storksbill will not keep long in storage. It is generally used in concentrated preparations.
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Nutrient Content
Niacin, vitamin K
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Bibliography
, by Jethro Kloss; Back to Eden Publishing Co., Loma Linda, CA 92354, Original copyright 1939, revised edition 1994
, by Steven Foster and James A. Duke., Houghton Mifflin Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10000
, by John Lust, Bantam Books, 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. copyright 1974.
, Third College Edition, Victoria Neufeldt, Editor in Chief, New World Dictionaries: A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 15 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10023, 1984
Category: Herbs
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