Heracleum

Other Names : Heracleum sphondylium, Common Hogweed, Cow Parsnip, Bärenklau, Bärentatze, Bärenwurz, Branca ursina, Heracleum, Hogweed, Wiesenbärenklau
See also : Cow Parsnip

Special Precautions of Heracleum

• Only Homeopathic use.
• Many members of this genus, including many of the sub-species in this species, contain furanocoumarins. These have carcinogenic, mutagenic and phototoxic properties. For example giant hogweed (H. mantegazzianum) contains phototoxic compounds particularly furanocoumarins (angelicin, psoralen, and so on) which cause unfavorable effects on skin health.

Health Benefits and Uses of Heracleum

• Recommended as a spinal stimulant
• in epilepsy with flatulency
• Debility
• Dyspepsia
• Gout
• Headache
• Seborrhea capitis
• affections of Skin
• pain in Spleen

Profile type

• Head.--Aches, with drowsiness, worse moving in open air, better tying up head with cloth. Much fatty perspiration on head and violent itching. Seborrhśa capitis. Sick headache.
• Stomach.--Pain with inclination to vomit. Bitter risings and taste. Hungry but unable to eat. Abdominal and spleenic pain.