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STONECROP SEDUM
ALBUM It stops bleeding, both inwardly and outwardly. A perennial, also known as the Small Houseleek and White Stonecrop. It grows with trailing branches with flat whitish-green leaves and white star-like flowers. Where to find it: Rocks and walls and roofs of houses. Flowering time: Early to midsummer. Astrology: It is under the dominion of the Moon. Medicinal virtues: Very good to stay defluxions. It helps cankers and fretting sores and ulcers. It resists pestilential fevers and is good for tertian agues. Bruised and applied outwardly, it helps the king's-evil and other knots or kernels in the flesh and also the piles. But it should be used with caution when given internally. The juice causes vomiting. Under proper management, it is an excellent medicine in scorbutic cases. Modern uses: An uncommon herb found only in scattered areas and therefore it has not gained a place in modern herbal medicine. Those that are familiar with its virtues have used it as a food by pickling it, but it is not recommended for domestic use because of its emetic properties and there is some possibility of confusion with another Stonecrop, Sedurn acre, which has been used as an abortefacient. See Houseleek (Wall Pepper). |