Chamedrys, Germander

Trixago minor
Kamazarius (Unani)

Herbarum Vivae Eicones, Otto Brunfels, 1530

Medical Botany, Woodville, 1810

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Botanical name:

Teucrium chamaedrys

Parts used:

Leaf; Flower

Temperature & Taste:

Warm, dry. Bitter.

Classifications:

2A APERIENT MEDICINES. 2C INCIDERS. 2G. CLEANSING. 2K. RESOLVENT
3F. LITHONTRIPTIC. 3G. EMMENAGOGUE
4f. SPLENETIC. 4g. HEPATIC. 4k. ARTHRITIC

Uses:

1. Clears Wind-Cold, Promotes Sweat, Resists Poison:

-protects against Infection during Epidemics
-Cold, Influenza, Cough
-‘good for Chronic Coughs’. (Galen)

2. Stops Wind, Benefits the Head:

-Continual Headache, Epilepsy, Melancholy, Lethargy, Drowsiness and Dullness of Spirits
-“Its syrup is useful in Convulsions” (Avicenna)

3. Clears Wind-Damp, Promotes Urine, Eases Pain:

-Edema
-Special for all Arthritic complaints; Gout, Rheumatism, Sciatica etc.

4. Opens the Liver and Spleen:

-pain of the sides; abdominal cramps
-“Its syrup is very useful in indigestion” (Avicenna)

5. Moves the Blood:

-resolves congealed Blood and Bruising
-promotes Menstruation (Galen)

6. Kills Worms

7. External:

-creeping Ulcers, Hemorrhoids, Itch, Scabs, and Catarrhs.
-“Its use with honey cleanses the chronic Ulcers” (Avicenna)
-‘made into an Oil and the Eyes anointed therewith, takes away their dimness and moistness’. (Culpeper)
-applied to Insect Bites