Dropwort as medicine

Potentially deadly plant was used as remedy.

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Water fennel an old-fashioned remedy for the lungs

Water fennel (Oenanthe Phellandrium), also called Dropwort, should never be confused with its more deadly relatives of the hemlock family, such as Oenanthe Crocata. Water fennel is a mild narcotic stimulant, expectorant, alterative, and diuretic. In large doses, it produces dizziness, inebriation, and dull pains in the head. The seeds have been most successfully used in chronic affections of the air-passages, as laryngitis, asthma, hemoptysis, catarrh, etc.; also in periodical febrile diseases, dyspeptic affections, and in indolent ulcerations. Read more at www.altmeds.com

 

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