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Orange Milkweed, NC
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| Common Names |
| Pleurisy Root, Butterfly-weed, Swallow-wort, Tuber root, Wind root, Colic root, Orange Milkweed |
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| Asclepias tuberose (Linn.) |
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| ASCLEPIADACEAE Milkweed Family |
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Commonly found from Canada southwards, known popularly as pleurisy root, from its medicinal uses against a wide range of respiratory and lung conditions specifically pleurisy, for which it was formerly official to the United States Pharmacopoeia. |
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Prep Methods :Teas and extracts, rarely encapsulated.
 Remedies using Pleurisy Root
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| Pleurisy root acts as an expectorant and relieves pain and congestion in the lungs 1118
| | delayed menstruation | | Constituents in pleurisy mimic the action of estrogen in the body, making the herb useful specifically in bringing on delayed menstruation, or for use as an aborifacient. 1119
| | Chest Congestion, rheumatism | | It possesses a specific action on the lungs, assisting exporation, subduing inflammation and exerting a general mild tonic effect, making it valuable in all chest complains. It has also been used with great advantage in diarrhaea, dysentery and acute and chronic rheumatism, in low typhoid states and in eczema. 326
(Grieve, Maude ) |
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| Large doses are emetic and purgative. The mature plant contains alkaloids that are toxic to livestock, and not recommended for women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, and children. |
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American Medical Plants, Millspaugh, C.1802[18]
 Butterfly weed is a North American native perennial which occurs in dry/rocky open woods, glades, prairies, fields and roadsides. It typically grows in a clump to 1-3 feet tall and features clusters (umbels) of bright orange to yellow-orange flowers atop upright to reclining, hairy stems with narrow, lance-shaped leaves. These flowers are a nectar source for many butterflies and leaves are a food source for monarch butterfly larvae (caterpillars). Unlike many of the other milkweeds, this species does not have milky-sapped stems. www.mobot.org
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 From early days this member of the milkweed family has been regarded as a valuable medicinal plant, one of the most important of the indigenous American remedies.
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 The milkweeds (Asclepias)were named for Aesculapius, who is said to have learned his knowledge of healing from an apprenticeship to Cheiron, the centaur whose herbal and medical skills came directly from Apollo. |
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