Balsam, White

Botanical: Gnaphalium polycephalum
Family: N.O. Asteraceae

• Description
• Medicinal Action and Uses

---Medicinal Action and Uses---Astringent. Beneficial for ulcerations of the throat and mouth; warm infusions used to produce diaphoresis; also of service in quinsy, pulmonary complaints, leucorrhoea. Can be used internally and as a local application, likewise used as fomentations to bruises, indolent tumours. An infusion given in diseases of the bowels - haemorrhages etc. The fresh juice is reputed anti-venereal and anti-aphrodisiac; the cold infusion vermifugal; the dried flowers are used as a sedative filling for the pillows of consumptives. A tincture is made from whole plant.

See:
CATSFOOT
CUDWEED
LIFE EVERLASTING
GNAPLIALIUM