Chickweed

chickweed as herbal medicine
Chickweed is also known as adder’s mouth and starwort.

In folk medicine it was used as an expectorant in the treatment of bronchitis. It was also used as a laxative and as a cure for rheumatism and arthritis. Period pains were treated with it, and it was used externally to treat skin diseases, wounds, bruises, burns and abrasions.

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