Common Madder

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Common Madder

Other Names: Bengal Madder, Dyer's Madder, Farberrote, Garança, Garance, Common Madder, Robbia, Rubia, Rubia de Tintas, Rubia tinctorum, Rubiae Tinctorum Radix.
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.