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Caulophyllum thalictroide
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Caulophyllum thalictroide
Common Name Blue Cohosh
Family BERBERIDACEAE Barberry Family
Other Names sqaw root
Parts Used: Dried root
Constituents Alkaloids, cystine (caulophylline), baptifoline, anagyrine, laburnine. Also caulosaponin, resins
Blue Cohosh Remedies
How to prepare
Traditionally combined with goldenseal. May also be used as an extract, capsule or tea, most often used in tincture form.
Blue Cohosh Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Antiseptic* Antispasmodic* Hypertensive* Parturient* Uterine Tonic* Antirheumatic*
Considered to be one of the best uterine stimulants and herbs to bring on menstruation, it contains the phytochemical calulopsponin which actively stimulates uterine contractions and promotes blood flow to the pelvic region. 884 Blue cohosh is generally used in combination with other herbs, often black cohosh to treat menstrual disorders. The herb is one of the aborifacient herbs often used to induce labor.
History and Traditions
historyNorth American Eclectic doctors and native women learned used blue cohosh to induce labor and ease labor pains. The herb was taken as tea, for a week or two preceding confinement, rendering delivery rapid and comparatively painless. They also used the root as a remedy for rheumatism, dropsy, uterine inflammation, and colic. These uses have been proven reliable by all methods of practice since. 1222
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referencesBlue Cohosh Medicinal Uses
Menstrual cramps
[918] The herb has powerful antispasmodic properties and is helpful in relieving menstrual cramps.
delayed menstruation
[917] Powerful emmenagogue, blue cohosh will help bring on a suppressed or delayed menstruation.

(Gladstar, Rosemary )

Arthritis anti-inflammatory
[410] The Iroquois used it to treat arthritis- research also suggests the plant possesses some anti-inflammatory, and anti-rheumatic properties.

(Duke, James A, Ph.D. )

Natural Childbirth
[884] Blue cohosh contains the phytochemical caulosaponin, capable of triggering powerful contractions of the uterus -

(Duke, James A, Ph.D. )

Uterine tonic
[1222] There is hardly an American remedy in our Materia medica that needs and probably merits a more thorough proving, upon females especially than Caulphyllum, and the sooner it is done, the better able will we be to cope with many of our most obstinate uterine cases.

(Millspaugh,C. 59-60[16-3])

Rheumatism
[1234] Blue cohosh eases the cramping pain of dysmenorrhoea. It has also been used to treat arthritis and ease stomach cramps.

(Mabey, Richard pp29-32)

Side Effects:
Because of its strong uterine stimulant properties, blue cohosh should not be used at any time during pregnancy, except in the last week, under the supervision of a qualified neuropath or herbal specialist. It can cause premature uterine contractions leading to miscarriage and/or abortion. The seeds are poisonous.
Plant Description
American Medical Plants,Millspaugh, C.1802,57[16]
Caulophyllum thalictroideThe Blue Cohosh is indigenous to the United States, growing abundantly in moist, rich woods, from Canada southward to Kentucky and the Carolinas. It blossoms from April to May, before the full development of the leaves. The berries are mawkish, insipid, and without special flavor. The seeds are said to resemble coffee when roasted. This erect, perennial herb, attains a growth of from 1 to 2 1/2 feet. Root horizontal or contorted, wrinkled and branched, showing many up-right nodules, bearing at their summits the scars of previous stems, and giving off numerous cylindrical, branching rootlets from the older portions. Stem simple, glaucous when young, smooth when old, arising from several imbricate, membraneous scales. Leaves large, triternately decompound, the upper much smaller and biternate ; leaflets 2 to 3 lobed, obtusely wedge-shape at the base ; petioles blending with the stem in such a manner as to render their junction almost obscure. Inflorescence a loose raceme or panicle ; peduncle arising from the base of the upper leaf; flowers purplish' or yellowish-green. Sepals 6, oval-oblong, with 3 small bractlets at the base. Petals 6, gland-like, with a short claw and a somewhat reniform or hooded body, the whole much smaller than the sepals, at the base of which they are inserted. Stamens 6, overlaying, and about the same length as the petals ; anthers oblong, 2-celled, the cells opening by uplifting valves. Pistils gibbous ; ovary resembling the anthers in form, 2-celled; style short, apical; stigma minute, unilateral. Fruit a 2-seeded pod; epicarp thin, papyraceous, bursting and withering before fertilization is complete, leaving the naked seeds to farther develop upon their erect, thick funiculi ; pericarp fleshy, deep blue ; albumen corneous ; embryo minute, apical. (Millspaugh, Charles F.,57[16])
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