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Description
Medicinal Usage
The root, harvested in spring or fall, and the leaves, harvested as the plant blooms in June, are used medicinally.
A decoction of the fresh root is a powerful styptic used to stop bleeding. The leaves are also astringent and styptic owing to their tannin content. They are used internally and externally to stop bleeding or profuse menstruation. One ounce of the dried leaves is added to a pint of water for medicinal purposes.
General Herb Information
Lady's mantle is a hardy perennial with elegant foliage and lacy mists of yellow blooms. It grows to 1 1/2 feet tall and is native to Eurasia and sporadically naturalized in North America. The rounded leaves, two to eight inches in diameter, have plaited folds with seven to eleven lobes and tiny teeth. Sprays of small yellow petalless flowers bloom in June, lasting in the far north to August. Folded leaf-like stipules collar the stem. The tap root is stout and black.
Drops of dew form in the leaf folds and cups of stipules, giving lady's mantle an early morning jewel-like sparkle. This dew was thought to infuse subtle medicinal virtues from the leaf - the stuff of alchemist's potions. Alchemilla derives from an Arabic word alkemelych meaning alchemy.
Lady's mantle can be propagated from seed, but the seeds germinate slowly. Self-sown volunteers appear in the garden and can be transplanted in the spring. "Eyes" of the crown can be carefully divided, leaving some attached root for propagating new stock in the spring or fall.
Lady's mantle's taproot likes a deep-dug soil with good drainage. A poor, slightly acid soil will suffice for this plant. It grows in full sun or partial shade and is completely winter hardy. Once estab lished, it requires little care. Plant on rocky inclines that may be hard to reach and maintain.
Lady's Mantle Alchemilla vulgaris auct. non L. (= A. xanthochlora Rothm.).
Family: Rasaceaea.
Other Names: Alchimille; manteau de Notre-Dame (French); Gewöhnlicher Frauenmantel (German); alchemilla (Italian); pie de leon (Spanish).
Description: A perennial herb with rosettes of lobed leaves and sparse clusters of small yellow flowers. The are somewhat funnel-shaped and shallowly lobed, with conspicuous teeth along the margins. A. vulgaris is a species complex (formerly named as A. xanthochlora). The Alpine lady's mantle (A. alpina and A. conjuncta) is sometimes also used for medicine. It has palmately compound leaves with oblong, free lobes. These plants should not be confused with parsley piert (Aphanes arvensis, previously known as Alchemilla arvensis), a related tannin-rich plant used in traditional medicine.
Origin: Europe, North America and Asia (A. vulgaris) or central, western and northern Europe (A. alpina) A. vulgaris is mainly used, and raw material is imported from eastern Europe.
Parts Used: Dried aerial parts, collected while the plants are in flower (Alchemillae herba).
Uses and Properties: The plant is considered useful in treating minor cases of diarrhoea, sore throat and externally for sores and septic wounds. Traditional uses include gynaecological ailments, especially dysmenorrhoea.
Active Ingredients: High concentrations of ellagitannins (6-8%) are present, including agrimoniin, laevigatin F and pedunculagin. Flavonoids (including a quercerin glucuronide) have also been found.
Pharmacological Effects: In common with several other tannin-containing herbs of the Rosaceae, lady's mantle is highly astringent and thus useful to treat mild diarrhoea and sore throat. It may also be of some value as a venotonic to treat vascular disorders.
Notes:Alchemilla alpina has been used to treat menstrual disorders, and as diuretic and antispasmodic medicine, while Aphanes arvensis is used mainly to dissolve kidney stones. None of these uses have been substantiated by scientific studies.
Status: Pharm.; Comm.E+ (A. vulgaris only).
Preparation and Dosage: For the main indication (diarrhoea), a daily dose of 5-10 g is used. The dried herb and extracts thereof is included in mixtures, ointments, mouthwashes and throat lozenges.
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Take 1 capsule, 3 times daily, with meals.
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