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Bursa pastoris, Shepherd’s Purse

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Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491
Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

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Masclef, Atlas des plantes de France, (?)

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Botanical name:
Capsella bursa-pastoris

Parts used:
Herb

Temperature & Taste:
Cool, dry. Mildly Sweet and Bitter
dries, binds, astringes

Classification:
2P. HEMOSTATIC

Uses:
1. Cools the Blood, Stops Bleeding and Leakage (TCM, West):
-internal and
external bleeding.

2. Clears Damp Heat, Promotes Urine (TCM, West):
-Diarrhea and Dysentery, including those with blood and mucous in the stool.


3. Moves the Blood, Stops Wind, Regulates Circulation (TCM, West):
-Nervous Heart Complaints;


4. Moves the Blood, Clears Heat, Resolves Masses:
-breaks internal Abscesses.


5. Clears and benefits the Vision. (TCM)

6. Loosens the Bowels:
-seeds were used as a laxative by ancient Greeks.

7. Externally:

i. all hot inflammations, and is, according to some (such as Maria Treben), a specific for all types of muscular disorders.
ii. Ointment is good for all wounds and bruising, esp. the head.
iii. juice dropped into the ears heals pains and noises of the ears.
iv. Good for bleeding piles.

v. fresh leaf laid to the armpits and neck to stop a Blood nose.
vi. Applied to the wrist as a poultice to stop Agues.


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Main Combinations:
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2. Hemoptysis:
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3. To promote Urine, Shepherd's Purse with  ... available in PRO version
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5. Incontinence, Bedwetting:
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Major Formulas
Decoction for Stones
Decoction of Hemp Seed


Cautions:
1. Not used during pregnancy
2. Caution in people with cold and weak digestive systems.

Main Preparations used:
Distilled Water of the Leaves

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