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Convallaria majalis
Uses: In eighteenth century France, the powered flowers were used as a snuff to induce sneezing in an attempt to treat nervous headache and vertigo. Tea of flowers and roots traditionally used in valvular heart disease (digitas substitute), fever; diuretic, heart tonic, sedative, emetic. Root ointment, folk remedy for burns, to prevent scar tissue. Russians used for epilepsy. Used in European phytomedicine for the treat of mild cardiac insufficiency, to economize cardiac efficiency, and to improve tone of the veins. Cardenolides are the active compounds. A steroidal potential in a mouse experimental model.
