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Teucrium chamaedrys L. Herb, in flower.

Constituents: iridoid glycosides, tannins, volatile oil.

Action: anti-diarrhoea, anti-inflammatory, anti-rheumatism, antimicrobial, antiseptic (mild), stomach bitter, diaphoretic, brain tonic, antispasmodic. Has been associated with cases of liver disease and is not now used internally.

Uses: Summer diarrhoea in children, irritable bowel, acute dyspepsia, lack of appetite, chronic bronchitis, skin disorders, pyorrhoea and inflammation of the gums (tea used as a mouth wash). To induce weight loss in slimming diets. Travel sickness, cellulitis, flatulence. Gout.

Preparations: Average dose: 2-4g. Thrice daily. Tea. 1 teaspoon to each cup boiling water; infuse 15 minutes. Dose half a cup.

Liquid extract. Half-1 teaspoon in water.

Powder, capsules: 250mg. Dose: 2 capsules between meals.

Note: Given to facilitate weight loss it has been known to be hepatotoxic. Of historic interest only. 

Health Source: Bartrams Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine
Author: Health Encyclopedia

Teucrium Chamaedrys

Linn.

Family: Labiateae; Lamiaceae.

Habitat: Native to Europe. Imported for use in Unani medicine.

English: Germander, Wall Germander.

Unani: Usqurdiyun, Kamaazariuus.

Action: Gastric stimulant, diuretic, sudorific. Used in spleen disorders and rheumatism; topically in skin diseases.

The herb contains iridoid glyco- sides, including harpagide and acetyl harpagide; clerodane and neoclero- dane diterpenes; phenylpropanoids; volatile oil, containing about 60% ca- ryophyllene; tannins and polyphenols.

One of the major furanoneoerodane diterpenes, teucrin A, is hepatotoxic.

Ether extract of the flowering herb shows antibacterial activity.... teucrium chamaedrys

Teucrium Scordium

Linn.

Family: Labiatae, Lamiaceae.

Habitat: Native to Europe; found in Kashmir.

English: Water-Germander.

Action: Stimulant, antiseptic, sudorific. Given for phthisis and cough. An infusion is used as laxative in piles, as a gargle in sore throat and stomatitis. An extract of the herb is given in lupus and actinomycosis. Flower tops and leaves—astringent, diaphoretic, vermifuge.

The herb contains iridoids, including harpagide and acetyl harpagide; fu- ranoid diterpenes; also choline, rutin, quercetin, iso-quercetin, stigmasterol, beta-sitosterol, beta-amyrin, chloro- genic and ursolic acids.... teucrium scordium

Wood Sage

Teucrium scorodonia. N.O. Labiateae.

Synonym: Garlic Sage, Wood Germander.

Habitat: Heaths, commons, woods.

Features ? Very similar in appearance to the ordinary garden, or culinary sage. Part used ? Herb.

Action: Diaphoretic, astringent, emmenagogue, tonic.

In feverish colds and faulty menstruation due to chills. Wineglass doses of the 1 ounce to 1 pint infusions are taken warm. Hool tells us that Wood Sage "combined with Comfrey and Ragwort, freely influences the bladder," and that it is "an appetiser of the first order, and as a tonic will be found equal to Gentian."... wood sage

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