Planting: Well-drained soil in sun, propagate by seed, fully hardy perennial 12”-24”.
Harvesting: Whole plant is used, plants are cut when flowering then dried for use in infusions, extracts, pills, and tinctures.
Culinary: Fresh or dried flowering plant makes a pleasant herb tea.
Historical: A great wound herb in the Anglo-Saxon (“garclive”) and French 15th C. (eau d’arquebusade) worlds, it helps cuts and wounds and bleeding. Name may come from the Greek arghemon an eye disease (albugo) which it was reputed to cure.
Medicinal: Used to promote clotting due to its high vitamin K content. A bitter, mildly astringent, tonic diuretic herb that controls bleeding, improves liver and gall bladder function, and is an anti-inflammatory. Used internally or externally.
Third Eye Vision: Soft to the blood, slow and smooth.
Date: Seeded Spring 2009 in A5
Links:
Wiki Agrimonia Eupatoria
Sources:
The Royal Horticultural Society New Encyclopedia of Herbs and Their Uses (RHS)
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