Agrimony: Used for Digestive Problems, as a Tonic and Healing Agent

Agrimony (Agrimonia eupatoria): Plant Family: Rosaceae

Synonyms -- Church Steeples, Cockeburr, Sticklewort, Odermenning.

This herb is found abundantly throughout England, The United States, Southern Canada, and Scotland.

This herb grows wild on hedge-banks , sides of fields, dry thickets and generally on other waste places.

The flowers are small and numerous, and the use of Agrimony dates back to the ancient Egyptians.

Traditional uses for this herb range from eye healing, to inducing sleep, to healing wounds and athlete’s foot.

Agrimony has earned the name of 'Church Steeples' because of it’s long flower-spikes.

Benefits of Agrimony

It is used in many of the following ways:

  • As an anti-inflammatory agent.

  • believed to be useful against skin eruptions and diseases of the blood, pimples, and blotches.

  • as a diuretic: acts to increase the secretion and expulsion of urine

  • as a tonic for the entire body

  • acts as a healing agent for wounds

  • is beleived to be useful in the enlargement of heart, stomach and lungs

  • believed to be useful for diarrhea

  • helps digestive problems, sluggish stomach conditions, and promotes assimilation of food

  • stimulates the flow of digestive juices

  • stimulates the appetite

  • believed to be useful for ulcers

  • believed to be useful for gout

  • helps kidney and bladder disorders

  • believed to be useful for rheumatism

  • facilitates liver secretions

  • aids in liver ailments

  • enlargement of lungs

  • inflammation of the throat

  • believed to be useful for tonsillitis

  • believed to be useful for gout

  • believed to be useful for slow-healing wounds

  • Agrimony is believed to be useful for ulcers

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