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Bogbean Menyanthes trifoliata

late spring bogbean reflecting in pond

Common Names

Bogbean , Buckbean, March Clover

Botanical Name

Menyanthes trifoliata

Family

MENYANTHACEAE

Bogbean Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Common Uses:	Gout * Lupus * Rheumatoid Arthritis *
Properties:	Diuretic* Febrifuge* Tonic* Antirheumatic* Nervine*
Parts Used:	whole herb
Constituents:	volatile oil, bitter princciple, a glucoside called Menyanthin.

Bogbean is a most useful herb for the treatment of rheumatism, osteo-arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. It has a marked stimulating action on the digestive juices and on bile-flow and so will speed sluggish digestion and give support to the liver and gall-bladder.

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How to Use: Bogbean

Preparation Methods :extracts, herbal tea

Remedies using : Bogbean

Bogbean for :Arthritis, skin disease

An extract is made from the leaves, which possesses strong tonic properties, and which renders great service in rheumatism, scurvy, and skin diseases.

Tonic, cathartic, deobstruent and febrifuge. An extract is made from the leaves, which possesses strong tonic properties, and which renders great service in rheumatism, scurvy, and skin diseases. An infusion of 1 OZ. of the dried leaves to 1 pint of boiling water is taken in wineglassful doses, frequently repeated. It has also been recommended as an external application for dissolving glandular swellings. Finely powdered Buckbean leaves have been employed as a remedy for ague, being said to effect a cure when other means fail. In large doses, the powder is also purgative. It is used also as a herb tobacco.

Maud Grieve, Modern Herbal Vol 1 (1931)

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Bogbean Medicinal Uses & Benefits

Gout * Lupus * Rheumatoid Arthritis *

Plant Description

Koehler's Medicinal-Plants 1887

The buckbean, or bogbean grows in spongy bogs, marshes and shallow water and is one of our prettiest wild flowers. The plant was held to be of great value as a remedy against the once-dreaded scurvy, it's German name 'Scharback' is a corruption of the latin scorbutus, the old medical name for the disease.

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