Liber Herbarum Minor (English)
The incomplete reference-guide to Herbal medicine

Rev.12-05-2020

Common soapwort ↔ Cathartic

Plant

Family

Pink family (Caryophyllaceae)

English

Common soapwort, Boucing bess, Boucing bet, Bouncingbet, Bouncing-bett, Crow soap, Fuller's herb, Lady's washbowl, Latherwort, Soapweed, Soapwort, Wild sweet william

Latin

Saponaria officinalis Linne, Lychnis saponaria Jessen, Saponaria officinalis

Plantparts

Dried root, foliage, Herb, Leaf, Root, Unspecified, Whole plant

Diseases & Uses

Cathartic, laxative, aperient, catharic, movements of the bowel, purgative

Plantparts

Methods of Preparation

Methods of Use

--Not specified
Source: LiberHerbarum/XPn0136Sn0018

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