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Chelone glabra
Balmony
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Latin Name: Chelone glabra
Synonyms: C. obliqua alba.
Common Name: Balmony
Family: Scrophulariaceae(Click to Search)
Author: L.
Known Hazards: None known
Habitat: Margins of swamps, wet woods and rivers[4, 43].
Mature Height: 1
Mature Width: 0.5
Habit: Perennial
Medicinal Uses: Balmony is a very bitter herb with a tea-like flavour that acts mainly as a tonic for the liver and digestive system[238]. It also has anti-depressant and laxative effects[238].
A decoction of the whole herb is antibilious, aperient, appetizer, cathartic, cholagogue, detergent, tonic, vermifuge[4, 21, 46, 61, 165, 207, 222]. It is used internally in the treatment of consumption, debility, diseases of the liver, gallbladder problems, gallstones etc[4, 254]. It is also used to relieve nausea and vomiting, intestinal colic and to expel worms[254]. Externally, it is applied as an ointment to inflamed tumours, irritable ulcers, inflamed breasts etc[4]. The plant is harvested when in flower and is dried for later use[238].
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