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Boneset Eupatorium perfoliatum

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Great Golden Digger Wasp  feeding on Boneset
Great Golden Digger Wasp feeding on Boneset
Common Names
Boneset , Common Thorough wort, Agueweed, Indian Sage
Botanical Name
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Family
ASTERACEAE or COMPOSITAE Sunflower family
Boneset Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Common Uses: Bronchitis * Colds * Immune System * Influenza *
Properties: Analgesic* Antibacterial* Anti-inflammatory* Febrifuge* Diaphoretic* Immunostimulant* Nervine*
Parts Used: Aerial parts
Constituents:flavonoids (including quercetin, kaempferol, rutin and eupatorin), terpenoids (including sesquiterpene lactones), volatile oil, resin

This Native American remedy for colds and fever was adopted by early settlers to America. The name refers to the plants use to treat breakbone fever, (dengue), a viral infection that causes such intense muscle pain that sufferers feel their bones will break. Only the advent of aspirin displaced boneset as the popular choice for colds and fever.

Side Effects:
Consumption of large amounts can cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Those allergic to chamomile, feverfew, or ragwort should not use. Safety in pregnant women is not established
How to Use: Boneset
Preparation Methods :Whole herb in capsules, teas, and tinctures. Boneset tea is very bitter.

remedyRemedies using : Boneset Boneset herb tea* Chest and Lung congestion* Flu tea*


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Boneset for :Colds,flu, fever
Colds,flu, fever The phytochemicals in boneset help rev up the immune system's white blood cells against viruses and other microorganisms, explaining its longtime use against colds and flu. Native Americans and colonial settlers used it to treat a variety of fever causing afflictions.

James Duke, The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook (2000)

Boneset for :Congestion, Fever
Congestion, Fever Not really used to treat broken bones, boneset is nonetheless an excellent remedy for colds and congestion. Boneset treats colds by raising body temperature to kill the colds virus, but it also treats fevers by inducing perspiration to lower body temperature. The polysaccharides in boneset activate T-cells to fight bacterial infections.

Moutain Rose Herbs. Learn Boneset. (2008-07-12),

Boneset for :Colds,flu, fever
Colds,flu, fever The phytochemicals in boneset help rev up the immune system's white blood cells against viruses and other microorganisms, explaining its longtime use against colds and flu. Native Americans and colonial settlers used it to treat a variety of fever causing afflictions.

James Duke, The Green Pharmacy Herbal Handbook (2000)

Boneset for :Congestion, Fever
Congestion, Fever Not really used to treat broken bones, boneset is nonetheless an excellent remedy for colds and congestion. Boneset treats colds by raising body temperature to kill the colds virus, but it also treats fevers by inducing perspiration to lower body temperature. The polysaccharides in boneset activate T-cells to fight bacterial infections.

Moutain Rose Herbs. Learn Boneset. (2008-07-12),

Plant Description
Related Species Joe-pye weed, E. purpureum

Whole plant,1879,Millspaugh, Charles F.[99]
Whole plant,1879,Millspaugh, Charles F.[99]

  • Flowers:Composite, the numerous, small, dull, white heads of tubular florets only, crowded in a scaly in­volucre and borne in spreading, flat-topped terminal cymes.
  • Stem:Stout, tall, branching above, hairy, leafy
  • Leaves:Opposite, often united at their bases, or clasping, lance-shaped, saw-edged, wrinkled.
  • Preferred Habitat:Wet ground, low meadows, roadsides.
  • Flowering Season:July - September
  • Distribution:From the Gulf states north to Nebraska, Manitoba, and New Brunswick.

Frequently, in just such situations as its sister the Joe-Pye Weed selects, and with similar intent, the boneset spreads its soft, leaden-white bloom; but it will be noticed that the butterflies, which love color, especially deep pinks and magenta, let this plant alone, whereas beetles, that do not find the butterfly's favorite, fragrant Joe-Pye Weed at all to their liking, prefer these dull, odorous flowers. Many flies, wasps, and bees also, get generous entertain­ment in these tiny florets, where they feast with the minimum loss of time, each head in a cluster containing, as it does, from ten to sixteen restaurants. An ant crawling up the stem is usually discouraged by its hairs long before reaching the sweets. Sometimes the stem appears to run through the centre of one large leaf that is kinky in the middle and taper-pointed at both ends, rather than between a pair of leaves.

An old-fashioned illness known as break-bone fever— doubtless paralleled today by the grippe -once had its terrors for a patient increased a hundredfold by the certainty he felt of taking nauseous doses of boneset tea, administered by zealous old women outside the "regular practice." Children who had to have their noses held before they would -or, indeed, could - swallow the decoction, cheerfully munched boneset taffy instead. Netje Blanchan Wild Flowers worth Knowing(1917)

History and Traditions
history"There is probably no plant in American domestic practice that has more extensive or frequent use than this. The attic, or woodshed, of almost every country farm-house, has its bunches of the dried herb hanging tops downward from the rafters during the whole year, ready for immediate use should some member of the family be taken with a cold." Charles F. Millspaugh American Medicinal Plants (1892)
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