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Fumitory Fumaria officinalis

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Common Names
Fumitory , Earth smoke
Botanical Name
Fumaria officinalis
Family
FUMARIACEAE
Fumitory Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Common Uses: Acne * Digestion/Indigestion * Eczema * Liver *
Properties: Depurative* Digestive* Diuretic* Laxative* Hepatic* Sedative* Vermifuge* Skin tonic* Stomachic* Astringent*
Parts Used: Aerial parts
Constituents:alkaloids (including fumarine and protopine), bitter principles, tannic acid, fumaric acid, mucilage, resin, potassium
Traditions:

The tradtional medical use of fumitory as a skin treatment for eczema and other eruptions of the skin. The herb is taken as a tea for indigestion, and can be supportive in treating gallbadder and liver conditions. Fumitory is an aperient, depurative, cholagogue(stimulating the flow of bile), directic, laxative, sedative, stomachic, sudorific and tonic. It has traditionally been used as a vermifuge, to treat the skin, as a digestive tonic, and in sclerosis of the liver 1


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Fumitory (Wildharvested)Fumaria officinalis Origin- Europe
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Side Effects:
Large doses can cause diarrhea
How to Use: Fumitory
Preparation Methods & Dosage :Infusions and teas, capsules or extracts. The tea can be used in external skin care as compress for skin problems, or an eye wash for conjunctivitis. Dried fumitory leaves can also be smoked.

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referencesFumitory Medicinal Uses & Benefits
Acne * Digestion/Indigestion * Eczema * Liver *
Fumitory for :Skin tonic, freckles, acne
Skin tonic, freckles, acne French and German physicians still prefer it to most other medicines as a purifier of the blood; while sometimes the dried leaves are smoked in the manner of tobacco, for disorders of the head. Dr. Cullen, among its good effects in cutaneous disorders, mentions "the infusion of the leaves of the above-described plant is said to be an excellent specific for removing these freckles and clearing the skin" (Grieve, M.,329)

Maud Grieve, Modern Herbal Vol 1 (1931)

Plant Description


The common name "earth smoke" comes from the smoky appearance of fumitory's whitish flowers when viewed from afar. Fumitory is distant relative of the poppy,and is somtimes classified in the Papaveraceae family and is sometimes placed in its own Fumariaceae plant family.

History and Traditions
historyFumitory has been used at least since Roman times and was mentioned as a herb for eyesight by Pliny the Elder. Fumitory had a more prominent place in the herbal medicine of medieval and 18th century Europe than it does today. Culpepper and Grieve both valued it highly for serious conditions such as liver disease and leprosy
Astrology:
folkloreSaturn owns the herb, and presents it to the world as a cure for his own disease, and a strengthener of the parts of the body he rules. If by my astrological judgment of diseases, from the decumbiture, you find Saturn author of the disease, or if by direction from a nativity you fear a saturnine disease approaching, you may by this herb prevent it in the one, and cure it in the other, and therefore it is fit you keep a syrup of it always by you. The juice or syrup made thereof, or the decoction made in whey by itself, with some other purging or opening herbs and roots to cause it to work the better (itself being but weak) is very effectual for the liver and spleen, opening the obstructions thereof, and clarifying the blood from saltish, choleric, and adust humours, which cause leprosy, scabs, tetters, and itches, and such like breakings-out of the skin, and after the purgings doth strengthen all the inward parts. It is also good against the yellow-jaundice, and spends it by urine, which it procures in abundance. The powder of the dried herb given for some time together, cures melancholy, but the seed is strongest in operation for all the former diseases. The distilled water of the herb is also of good effect in the former diseases, and conduces much against the plague and pestilence, being taken with good treacle. The distilled water also, with a little water and honey of roses, helps all sores of the mouth or throat, being gargled often therewith Nicholas Culpeper
Folklore, Myths and Legends
folkloreThe name is said to be derived either from the fact that its whitish, blue-green colour gives it the appearance of smoke rising from the ground, or, according to Pliny, because the juice of the plant brings on such a flow of tears that the sight becomes dim as with smoke, and hence its reputed use in affections of the eye. According to the ancient exorcists, when the plant is burned, its smoke has the power of expelling evil spirits, it having been used for this purpose in the famous geometrical gardens of St. Gall. There is a legend that the plant was produced, not from seed, but from vapours arising out of the earth. (Grieve, M.,329)

References:
  1. Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

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