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Greater stitchwort, Stellaria holostea
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Common Name | Chickweed |
| | Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE Pink family |
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| Other Names | Starweed |
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| Parts Used: | whole herb |
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| Constituents |
Saponins, mucilage |
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 Remedies using Chickweed
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Fresh herb, poultice, ointments and salves.
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Chickweed is best known for it's ability to cool inflammation and speed healing for internal or external flare-ups. Herbalists often recommend it as a poultice or ointment for skin irritations, skin abscesses and boils. |
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| Acne, psoriasis, and eczema | | [375] The plant makes a fine green cooling ointment, that may be employed to treat acne, psoriasis, and eczema
(Grieve, Maude ) | | Skin abscess | | [376] Try a chickweed poultice on an abscess, carbuncle or other inflammatory sore. And don't forget to try chickweed in a salad.
(Duke, James A, Ph.D. ) | | [1067] Strain chickweed tea, cool and use it to moisten a clean, soft cloth for a compress to apply to closed eyes, or dilute infusion with saline solution for eye rinse.
| | [1068] Chickweed is a mild and gentle laxative
| | [1069] Chickweed poultices are useful for cooling and soothing minor burns and skin irritations, and rashes particularly when associated with dryness and itching.
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It has been said that there is no place in the world where the Chickweed is not to be found. It is a native of all temperate and north Arctic regions, and has naturalized itself wherever man has settled. The young leaves when boiled can hardly be distinguished from spring spinach, and are equally wholesome. Both wild and caged birds eat the seeds as well as the tops and leaves. Weak stemmed sprawling annual commonly found in low-growing mats or entangled with other growth. Continuous blooms of diminutive, white, 5 petaled flowers. A line of minute hairs runs up only one side of the stems, switching sides at each pair of leaves.
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 It is a fine soft pleasing herb under the dominion of the Moon. The herb bruised or the juice applied with cloths or sponges dipped therin to the region of the liver, and as they dry to have it fresh applied, doth wonderfully temparate the heat of the liver. Nicholas Culpeper |
 Chickweed water is an old wives remedy for obesity. |
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Chickweed Medicinal Uses
