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[[File:Rubia tinctorum.jpg|thumb|350px|left|Common Madder]]
Other Names: Bengal Madder, Dyer's Madder, Farberrote, Garança, Garance, Common Madder, Robbia, Rubia, Rubia de Tintas, Rubia tinctorum, Rubiae Tinctorum Radix.<br>Madder is a plant. The root is used to make medicine.
==Special Precautions of Madder==
*Madder is considered UNSAFE. The chemicals in madder may cause cancer. Madder can also cause urine, saliva, perspiration, tears, and breast milk to turn red in color.
*Pregnancy and breast-feeding: It’s UNSAFE to use madder of you are pregnant. It might start your menstrual period and that could cause a miscarriage. Madder might also cause birth defects.
*It’s also best to avoid madder if you are breast-feeding. It might harm the nursing baby, and it might turn breast milk red.
==Benefits and uses of Madder are==
Despite serious safety concerns, people take madder for preventing and dissolving kidney stones and for treating general menstrual and urinary tract disorders.
* Kidney stones.
*Menstrual problems.
*Urinary problems.
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