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Motherwort
(Leonurus
cardiaca)
Other names:
Throw-wort, Lion's Ear and Lion's Tail |
Medicinally
Diaphoretic,
antispasmodic, tonic, nervine, emmenagogue.
Motherwort is especially valuable in female
weakness and disorders (hence the name), allaying
nervous irritability and inducing quiet of the whole nervous system.
As a
tonic, it acts without producing febrile
excitement, and in fevers, attended with
nervousness and delirium, it is extremely useful.
Motherwort
is also used to ease stomach gas and cramping,
menopausal problems, and insomnia, although it may
be habit forming if used regularly to combat
sleeplessness.
History
It
was historically used in China to prevent
pregnancy and to regulate menstruation.
Old
writers tell us that there is no better herb for
strengthening and gladdening the heart, and that
it is good against hysterical complaints, and
especially for palpitations of the heart when they
arise from hysteric causes, and that when made
into a syrup, it will allay inward tremors,
faintings, etc. There is no doubt it has proved
the truth of their claims in its use as a simple
tonic, not only in heart disease, neuralgia and
other affections of the heart, but also in spinal
disease and in recovery from fevers.
- Culpepper wrote
of Motherwort:
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'Venus
owns this herb and it is under Leo. There is
no better herb to drive melancholy vapours
from the heart, to strengthen it and make the
mind cheerful, blithe and merry. May be kept
in a syrup, or conserve, therefore the Latins
call it cardiaca.... It cleanseth the chest of
cold phlegm, oppressing it and killeth worms
in the belly. It is of good use to warm and
dry up the cold humours, to digest and
disperse them that are settled in the veins,
joints and sinews of the body and to help
cramps and convulsions.
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Motherwort
herb C/O
Leonurus
cardiaca
Origin-
USA 
Motherwort is especially valuable in female
weakness and disorders, allaying
nervous irritability and inducing quiet of the whole nervous system.
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