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Common Name: CHICKWEED
Scientific Name: Stellaria media

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Stellaria media
Stellaria media

Description

  • Annual
  • Annual with a slender taproot and tiny white, star-shaped flowers.
  • Frost hardy

Culinary Uses

  • Add sprigs to salads.
  • Cook as a vegetable.
  • Liquidize with other herbs and vegetables as a tonic juice

Parts Used

  • Whole plant

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

  • Soothing, cooling, saline (souterige) herb
  • Important skin herb - help where all other remedies failed
  • Relieves severe itchiness, promotes healing.
  • Externally: poultice/juice/ointment/cream - help itching, eczema, psoriases, vaginitis,
  • urticaria (galbulte) ulcers, boils, abscesses and varicose veins
  • Anti-rheumatic - reduce inflammation in rheumatic joints and encourage tissue repair
  • Internally: help rheumatism and chest infection
The information contained within this website is for educational purposes only. This site merely recounts the traditional uses of specific plants as recorded through history. Always seek advice from a medical practitioner.

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