Names |
History |
Constituents |
Uses |
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from Latin, "little case of the shepherd" Shepherds' Bag,Shepherds Scrip,Shepherds' Sprout, Ladys' Purse,Witches Pouches, Rattle Pouches, Case-weed, Pick-Pocket, Pick-Purse, Blindweed, Pepper and Salt, poor Mans' Parmacettie, Sanguinary, Mothers' Heart'Clappedpouch,Bourse de Pasteur,Hirtentasche,Shovelweed |
Known as purse or pouch because of a similarity in shape to old fashioned leather purses, also "Clappedpouch" used as a name for lepers begging, using a cup at the end of a long pole. European native, transplant to New World after Pilgrims arrived.Introduced from Greenland where it arrived brought by Norsemen 1,000 years ago One of the most important drug plants of the Cruciferae family. |
Choline, acetylcholine,other amines acting as vasoconstrictors and haemostatics.An organic acid called Bursinic acid,a tannate and an alkaloid,Bursine,resembling sulphocyansinapine. |
(Haemostyptic)
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An ounce of plant to 12 oz water, reduced through boiling to 1/2
pint,strained and taken when cool with Spirits of Juniper ,Pellitory of the
Wall, or some nitrates of potash- since it is unpleasant to taste.......................................
Source: Grieves
, A Modern Herbal, p. 738
