Liber Herbarum Minor (English)
The incomplete reference-guide to Herbal medicine

Rev.12-05-2020

Butterflyweed

Plant

English

Butterflyweed, Butterfly milkweed, Canada root, Chigger flower, Fluxroot, Indian posy, Orange milkweed, Orange-root, Orange swallow-wort, Pleurisy-root, Tuber-root, White-root, Windroot, Yellow milkweed

Latin

Asclepias tuberosa L.

Diseases & Uses

Ungrouped Diseases & Uses

Anti-spasmodic, aperient, Carminative, Carminativum, Cataplasm, catharic, Cathartic, Clears gas, compress, convulsive state, Cramp, cramps, Diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant, Expellant of phlegm, Fart, flatulence, flatulency, flatus, fomentation, Gas, Herbal tonic, hidrotic, Induce sweating, intestinal gas, Laxative, movements of the bowel, Mucolytic agent, poultice, purgative, relax spasms, spasm, Spasmolytic, sudorific, sweat-inducing, Tonic, Vasodilator, wind

Foods

Sugar substitute, sweetener

TCM - Traditional Chinese medicine

TCM MERIDIAN: NA, Traditional Chinese medicine, Used in traditional Chinese medicin

Ingredients

 Vegetable oil

Source: LiberHerbarum/Pn1467

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