Meadow Hawkweed Medicinal Uses | Slide Mouse

Caespitosa has in the past been used for healing eyesight.

Meadow hawkweed medicinal uses. The medicinal herb info site was created to help educate visitors about the often forgotten wisdom of the old ways of treating illnesses. Food medicinal uses web page links online videos references. Biological control no insects have been approved for release in the u s. Moerman timber press c1998 isbn.

Many of today s drugs and medicines were originally derived from natural ingredients combinations of plants and other items found in nature. Yellow hawkweed on the state list since before 1988 is a class b noxious weed in washington in the group of hawkweeds known as meadow hawkweeds in the subgenus pilosella. 1 native american ethnobotany by daniel e. Juice in wine promotes digestion expels wind and neutralizes acidity in the stomach.

Meadow hawkweeds are designated for required control in king county by the washington state noxious weed control board and as a group are on the list of of regulated class. A historical survey with special reference to eastern indian tribes by charlotte erichsen brown. Used for diarrhea and a gargle for throat problems. The plant is mixed with swertia pedicellata and pounded to a paste thn applied to the forehead to treat headaches.

Edible shrubs provides detailed information attractively presented on over 70 shrub species. This plant has shallow fibrous roots stolons and rhizomes. Meadow hawkweed is an excellent candidate for integrated weed management using combinations of fertilizer herbicide and seeding competitive plants. Traditional uses and benefits of hawkweed this herb is used in cases of edema or fluid retention kidney stones cystitis and hyper uricemia.

The species is thought to have been introduced into the united states in 1828 as a medicinal remedy to cure digestive ailments. Taken over a long period of time it is reputed to help cataracts but this claim has been disputed. Caespitosa specifically believing that they would eat it in an effort to improve eyesight. As a powder sniff it into the nose to stop the nosebleed.

Meadow hawkweed typically inhabits mountain meadows forest clearings pastures hayfields roadsides abandoned farmland and other disturbed sites. Pliny the elder had recorded information regarding how other species specifically hawks utilized p. Our new book edible shrubs is now available. The bitter leaves have been used as a febrifuge.

To control yellow hawkweed.