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Common Name | Broom, Butcher's |
| | Family | LILIACEAE Lily Family |
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| Other Names | Jew's Myrtle, Sweet Broom |
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| Parts Used: | rhizome |
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 Remedies using Broom, Butcher's
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Tea or extract. To make a tea from chopped root, place 1 teaspoon of the herb in a cup of boiling water and allow to steep in a closed teapot for 10 minutes.
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Broom has a long history of use in herbal medicine traditions as a diuretic and blood vessel toner. Broom is approved by the authoritative German Commission E for chronic venous insufficiency, a condition causing pain, swelling, and fatigue in the calves that is related to varicose veins, and hemorrhoids. Herbalists also use this potent plant in the treatment of poor circulation, irregular heart rhythm, and other related heart problems. |
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| Tone blood vessels | | [1155] Broom herbal extracts from the roots of this plant seem to have the ability to strengthen and tone blood vessels.
| | Irregular heart rhythm | | [1113] Sparteine, one active constituent of broom is often compared to the heart-depressing drug quinidine. Broom is approved for use by German Commission E for stabilizing irregular heart rhythm.
| | Varicose veins, hemorrhoids | | [438] The two active ingredients in the rhizome, ruscogenin and neoruscogenin, constrict veins, strengthen the walls of blood vessels, and reduce inflammation. Approved by German Commission E for chronic venous insufficiency, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids.
(Duke, James A, Ph.D. ) |
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| The primary phytochemical in broom, sparteine, is a cardiac depressant and powerful enough in sulfate form to cause respiratory arrest, high blood pressure and uterine contractions. High doses (over 30 grams) may also cause dizziness,a nd tingling in hands and feet. Use under the qualified supervision of your health care provider. |
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Butchers Broom is a low, shrubby, evergreen plant, very hardy, thriving in almost any soil or situation, and is often planted in shrubberies or edges, its greenery welcome after the deciduous trees have shed their leaves. The young shoots of Butcher's Broom can be eaten like those of Asparagus, a plant to which it is closely allied. The matured branches used to be bound into bundles and sold to butchers for sweeping the blocks, hence the name.
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 It is a plant of Mars, being of a gallant cleansing and opening quality: the decoction of the roots, made with wine, openeth obstructions, provoketh urine, helpeth to expel gravel, and the stone, the stranguary, and women's courses, as also the yellow jaundice, and the head-ach Nicholas Culpeper |
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Broom, Butcher's Medicinal Uses
