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Vervain is useful in many diseases as a pain reliever and natural tranquilizer, an expectorant used to treat chronic bronchitis, and an antirheumatic used to relive joint pain. Herbalists consider vervain especially helpful when depression is related to chronic illness. As an added benefit, it can help to heal any damage that has occurred to the liver.
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Preparation Methods :Traditionally used as a tea, use equal amounts of vervain and sugar.
 Remedies using : Vervain
Blue Vervain tea*
Get to Sleep*
Hot Flashes Tea*
Stress soother tea*
Vervain Flower Remedy*
Winter Tisane 1*
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Vervain for :Joint pain, antirheumatic |
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Traditional antirheumatic used to relive joint pain. Protective of the liver, calming and lifts depression that can occur with chronic illness like arthritis. |
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Vervain for :Joint pain, antirheumatic |
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Traditional antirheumatic used to relive joint pain. Protective of the liver, calming and lifts depression that can occur with chronic illness like arthritis. |
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Johann Georg Sturm 1796
- Flowers: Very small, purplish blue, in numerous slender, erect, compact spikes. Calyx 5-toothed; corolla tubular, unequally 5-lobed; 2 pairs of stamens; 1 pistil
- Stem: 3 to 7 ft. high, rough, branched above, leafy, 4-sided.
- Leaves: Opposite, stemmed, lance-shaped, saw-edged rough, lower ones lobed at base
- Fruit: Coral red, round or oval; not edible.
- Preferred Habitat:Moist meadows, roadsides, waste places.
- Flowering Season: May.
- Distribution: United States and Canada in almost every part.
Seeds below, a circle of insignificant purple-blue flowers in the centre, and buds at the top of the vervain's slender spires do not produce a striking effect, yet this common plant certainly does not lack beauty. John Burroughs, ever ready to say a kindly, appreciative word for any weed, speaks of its drooping, knotted threads, that "make a pretty etching upon the winter snow." Bees, the vervain's benefactors, are usually seen clinging to the blooming spikes, and apparently asleep on them. Borrowing the name of Simpler's Joy from its European sister,(V. officinalis), the flower has also appropriated much of the tradition and folklore centred about that plant which herb gatherers, or simplers, truly delighted to see, since none was once more salable. Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917) .
To be used, it must be picked before flowering and dried promptly.
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 Vervain has been used in traditional herbal medicine by many diverse cultures from the ancient Romans and Celtic cultures to the American Indians. The name Vervain is derived from the Celtic ferfain, the plant was used by them for afflictions of the bladder and is still used today as a diuretic to treat bladder infections. Vervain was used by the American Indians to treat stomach disorders and to clear up cloudy urine. Army surgeons used it during the Revolutionary war. |
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 This is an herb of Venus, and excellent for the womb to strengthen and remedy all the cold griefs of it, as Plantain doth the hot. Vervain is hot and dry, opening obstructions, cleansing and healing Nicholas Culpeper |
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Greeks Romans
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In his eighth Eclogue, Virgil refers to vervain as a charm to recover lost love. Doubtless this was the verbena, the herba sacra employed in ancient Roman sacrifices, according to Pliny. In his day the bridal wreath was of verbena, gathered by the bride herself. | |
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Medieval Europe/Celts
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Vervain was placed around fields to prevent bad weather and was sacred to the mightly Thor, the Norse thunder god. The ancient smiths used vervain in a procedure for hardening steel, thus it comes as no surprise that this herb was mixed into love potions to make love as hot as burning iron Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Wolf-Deieter Storl, Witchcraft Medicine (1998) Ages before Christians ascribed healing virtues to the vervain, found growing on Mount Calvary, the Druids had counted it among their sacred plants. Two of the most frequently used ingredients in witches cauldrons were vervain and rue. | |
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