Common Mallow
Other Names: Malva sylvestris, high mallow, tall mallow, mauve des bois, Wilde Malve, Groot kaasjeskruid, Büyük ebegümeci
Malva sylvestris is a vigorously healthy plant with showy flowers of bright mauve-purple, with dark veins; a handsome plant, often standing 3 or 4 feet (1 m) high and growing freely in fields, hedgerows and in fallow fields
See also : Country Mallow
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Special Precautions of Common Mallow
According to Plants For A Future, Marshmallow is considered superior to high mallow for internal use. Although no known common side effects or drug interactions currently exist for the mallow family of plants, ask your doctor before using Malva sylvestris to treat coughs or as a laxative.
Benefits and uses of Country Mallow are
Malva sylvestris has been used medicinally since ancient times, and is still used in modern phytotherapy. Mucilage is present in many of the Malvaceae family including M. sylvestris, especially the fruit.
- The seeds are used internally in a decoction or herbal tea as a demulcent and diuretic,
- The leaves made into poultices as an emollient for external applications.
- Mallow can also be taken internally for its laxative effect.
- Mallow plants are useful for fighting both dry coughs and chest colds because of the gelatinous quality of the plant's various parts. Drugs.com notes that commercially, marshmallow is employed more frequently in cough products than other mallow types. The plant family's leaves, roots and flowers also contain compounds that make mallows useful as an expectorant.
Used in Patent medicine
References
- Balfour, John Hutton (1863). "Products and Secretions of Plants". A manual of botany: being an introduction to the study of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants. Edinburgh: A & C Black. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
- Balfour, John Hutton (1863). "Malvaceae". A manual of botany: being an introduction to the study of the structure, physiology, and classification of plants. Edinburgh: A & C Black. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
- Dey, William Mair, Kanny Lall; Mair, William (1896). "Indigenous Drugs of India". The indigenous drugs of India: short descriptive notices of the principal medicinal products met with in British India. Thacker, Spink & Co. pp. 387 pages. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
- Hiley, John S. (1841). "On the medical botany of the province of Halifax". In Thomas Wakley. The Lancet, In Two Volumes (Volume The Second ed.). J. Onwhyn. Retrieved 10 May 2008.
