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Robert H. Mohlenbrock @ USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database
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| Common Names |
| Shepherd's Purse , Pickpurse, Casewort |
| Botanical Name |
| Capsella bursa-pastoris |
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| BRASSICACEAE or CRUCIFERAE Cabbage Family |
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Shepherd's purse is one of the important herbs to stop bleeding an effect due to the tyramine and other amines it contains. This property leads to its use is a number of condidtions such as heavy menstrual bleeding, nosebleeds, and as a post-partum herb.936 The herb is both a vasodilator, and also hastens coagulation and constrict blood vessels.431 |
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 Remedies using Shepherd's Purse
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| Improves blood flow to the heart | | Research confirms that an extract of the whole herb does hasten coagulation and constrict blood vessels. At the same time, it also allows coronary arteries to expand and improves blood flow to the heart. 431
(Duke, James A, Ph.D. ) | | Childbirth/bleeding | | High concentrations of tannin, tyramine, and other amines are what make it an excellent remedy for excessive bleeding after childbirth 936
(Gladstar, Rosemary ) | | Diuretic, providing potassium | | Acts as a mild diuretic, providing potassium to replace the potassium lost through increased urination. 904
| | heavy menstrual bleeding | | Taken alone or combined with yarrow, it will arrest heavy menstrual bleeding 937
| | Nosebleeds | | Good first aid herb for nosebleeds, wounds and cuts. Best if used fresh 938
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(Whole plant,1879,Millspaugh, Charles F.[99])
 Shepherd's Purse is so called from the resemblance of the flat seed-pouches of the plant to an old-fashioned leather purse. A native of Europe, it is one of the plants unknown to the Americas before the Pilgrims settled here.
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 It is under the dominion of Saturn, and of a cold, dry, and binding nature, like to him. It helps all fluxes of blood, either caused by inward or outward wounds; as also flux of the belly, and bloody flux, spitting blood, and bloody urine, stops the terms in women; being bound to the wrists of the hands, and the soles of the feet, it helps the yellow jaundice Nicholas Culpeper |
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