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Sweet goldenrod has limited medicinal applications, but has been used as a digestive stimulant, rubefacient, mild astringent, and carminative. Externally the leaves are used to relieve rheumatic pains and neuralgia. The tea is used to promote sweating in fevers, for colic, and to regulate the menses.
The oil contains delta-limonene, borneol, and estragole.
General Herb Information
More than 100 species of Solidago grow in North America, but only S. odora has a fragrance and flavor suggestive of anise or tarragon.
It is an erect, sometimes sprawling perennial, three to six feet high, found in thickets, along roadsides, and in dry, open, rocky woods from New Hampshire to southern Ontario, south to Florida and west to eastern Texas. The leaves are sessile (without leaf stalks), entire (not toothed), and sharply pointed, about four inches long and half an inch wide. The leaves become successively smaller toward the top of the plant. When held up to light, the leaves are spotted with translucent dots. The stems have a purple cast. The bright yellow flower heads are arranged on one side of a stem in tight long panicles. It flowers from July to September.
Sweet goldenrod can be grown from spring- or fall-sown seed, but is most easily propagated by dividing the crowns in spring after the plants become three to four inches tall. In three or four years the crowns will spread, producing clumps six to ten inches in diameter. These older clumps can be divided into ten or more seedlings.
Sweet goldenrod will grow in a rocky or sandy soil with good drainage and a fair amount of humus in either full sun or partial shade. The soil should be slightly acid. It will generally thrive in any good garden soil and requires little moisture.
Harvest just before the plant comes into bloom as the leaves later take on a more astringent bitter flavor. Tie in bundles. Sweet goldenrod dries quickly, and the leaves can easily be removed from the stem with one stroke.
Sweet goldenrod should be grown as a commercial tea crop. It is easy to grow and produces well. Frederick Pursh (1774-1820), a well-traveled botanical explorer, reported that sweet goldenrod was exported to China at a high price as a tea substitute.
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Directions
Take 1 capsule, 3 times daily, with meals.
Cautions
Do not take Goldenrod if you have chronic kidney disease. Do not use it to flush the urinary tract if you have swelling caused by heart or kidney problems.
Goldenrod is unlikely to cause problems when taken at usual dosage levels, but be sure to drink lots of fluids while using it.
Additional Information
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