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Uses:

1. Clears Heat and Damp, Opens Obstructions, Reduces Swelling:

-Liver pain or tenderness, Jaundice, Cholecystitis
-Restless, Liver Headache
-Hepato-protective effects have been demonstrated
-Scrofula, Lymphatic Swellings, Nodes
-conserve of the flowers strengthens Liver and Spleen (Salmon)
-Insomnia and restlessness

2. Clears Heat and Poison:

-Fever
-promotes expression of rashes in Small Pox, Measles etc. (Seeds)
-acute Sore Throat, Tonsillitis
-Skin diseases, Eczema

3. Moves the Blood, Clears Stasis:

-Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea
-Seed has been used to promote Labor.
-bruising, Trauma and Fractures (Bock, Kreutterbuch, 1565)

4. Clears Heat, Stops Cough:

-Whooping Cough
-Hemoptysis, Lung Ulcers (Bock, Kreutterbuch, 1565)

5. Clears Heat and Damp, Promotes Urine:

-Edema, Stones (root, Paracelsus)
-chewing the root regularly was said to hinder Stone formation (Matthiolus)
-Ulcers of the Kidneys, Bladder or Urethra

6. Externally:

-aches and pains from Cold (herb boiled in Oil)
-applied to Wounds; mouth wash for mouth Ulcers (leaf decoction or juice with Honey
-distilled water or decoction of the leaves is used for Mouth Sores and Ulcers
-Sores and Ulcers of the Genitals
-topically to Wounds
-old foul Ulcers, Running Sores, Fistula (Juice)
-Burns and Scalds (herb boiled in Oil)
-Applied to Fractures (Ointment)

Main Combinations:

1. Jaundice:
i. Columbine Seed is taken with Saffron
ii. Columbine seed (6 drams), Saffron (1 dram), Tartar Vitriolate (half dram). Form 7 doses. (Gazophylacium Medico-Physicum, Woyts, 1746)
2. Gargle for Mouth Sores and Ulcers, as a Wash for Genital Sores and Ulcers, or to irrigate Fistulas, Columbine Wine Decoction (1 pint), Columbine Water Decoction (½ pint), Alum powder (1 dram), Honey (4 oz.). (Salmon)

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