Lady's mantle herb
Latin name: Alchemilla vulgaris
Genus: Rose plants
Common names: Dächrut, Frauenhilfe, Perlkraut
Plant description lady's mantle herb
Plant description: Perennial, 10 to 50 cm long flower stems. Small and inconspicuous yellow-greenish flowers. Leaves shaggy and toothed on the edge, almost circular and also slightly folded when fully grown.
Flowering time: May to September
Occurrence: In bushes, light forests and meadows.
Plant parts used medicinally
The herb without the root
ingredients
Tannins, bitter substances, little essential oil, flavonoids
Medicinal effects and use of lady's mantle herb
Complaints in the Menopause the woman too strong Menstrual bleeding. Rarely at Stomach and intestinal discomfort. At Blemishes young girls are mixed with lady's mantle Pansy.
Preparation of lady's mantle herb
1 lightly heaped tablespoon Lady's mantle herb is poured over ¼ l of water and heated to boiling. Let it steep for another 10 minutes and then strain. Of the tea can too external ablutions be used.
Combination with other medicinal plants
At Blemishes you mix a tea from equal parts Lady's mantle and Pansy and prepare as described above. Internally as tea but also externally as envelope to use.
side effect
not known.
