Motherwort
Botanical name: Leonorus cardiaca
Pertinent Information on the Plant
- Emmenagogue (agent that regulates and induces normal menstruation)
- Suppressed menstruation
- Female disorders
- Relieving menstruation cramps
- Menopause (water retention, hot flashes, M=mood swings)
- Aids in child birth
- Heart tonic
- Heart palpitations
- Add to cough formula when someone has bad heart
- Add to asthma formula when someone has a bad heart
- Nervine relaxant (calm nervous tension and nourish the nervous system)
- Sedative (exerts a soothing, tranquilizing effect on the body)
- Antispasmodic (calming nervous and muscular spasms or convulsions)
- Hepatic (having to do with the liver)
- May be used to alleviate false labor pains
- Diuretic (increases flow of urine)
- Carminative (causing the release of stomach or intestinal gas)
- Antioxidant (prevents or inhibits oxidation)
- Fevers
- Stomach aches
Habitat and Growing area
- Found on our farm in Ontario Canada
- Likes to grow in disturbed ground; pasture land and fence line
Extra Notes
- A beautiful addition to heart tonic tea and menstruation teas
Reference Books:
Holistic Herbal, by David Hoffmann
Pages: 26, 27, 28, 38, 39, 65, 78. 99, 101, 104, 144-147, 183, 215
The Way of Herbs, by Michael Tierra
Pages: 158-159
The Complete Encyclopedia of Herbs, by Nico Vermeulen
Pages: 168
Family Herbal, by Rosemary Gladstar
Pages: 203, 205, 228, 261, 295, 350
Peterson Field Guide: Easter/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs, by Steven Foster and James A. Duke
Pages: 182, 183
Penelope Beaudrow
I am a Registered Herbalist and educator who has devoted the past 25 years to helping others foster deep and resilient connections with the living intelligence of the natural world and the regenerative, healing forces of plants and the medicine they carry.
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