Devil's club root bark, c/s, wild craftedScientific Name: Salvia sclarea, Araliaceae family Common Names: Devil's club Parts used: root, bark, stem, leaf and seed Active Compounds: sesquiterpene (equinopanacene), sesquiterpene alcohol (equinopanacol), sterols and the sesquiterpene spatulenol (unique to this genus) polyenes. Background: Devil's club is recognized as a most significant plant with over 30 categories of medicinal, spiritual, and technological uses reported. It is used by over twenty five different indigenous groups of western North America. Traditional uses include the following spiritual applications of Devil’s club: purification and cleansing; protection against paranormal entities, against epidemics and evil, for acquiring luck, in rituals by shamans, for personal protection and purification, the washing of fishing boats and nets. A charcoal of it was added to face paint for use in native ceremonial dances. Plants of the family Araliaceae do not all share similar chemical constituent properties. Applications: Emetic, purgative, antiviral, antifungal, laxitive, analgesic, etc. Medicinal uses of various parts of this plant are vastly numerous and include Used for issues related to childbirth and menstruation: to regulate menstruation, and for cramps, to expel afterbirth, to start post-partum menstrual flow. Since many strains of Mycobacterium (M. tuberculosis and M. avium) are resistant to the commonly used and broadly prescribed antimycobacterial drugs, interest and research regarding the potential of devil’s club in tuberculosis therapy is increasing. Description: Devil’s club plant grows 5 to 8 feet tall and is covered with thorns up to an inch long. The stems, petioles, and leaf veins are covered with a dense armor of yellowish needle-like spines up to 0.5 in. long, which can cause severe skin irritation. The flowers are small and whitish, in terminal pyramidal clusters, and ripen to shiny flattened, bright red berries. It forms large sprawling clones that expand laterally through the layering of decumbent stems. Is a shallow rooting, long-lived, clonal shrub that expands vegetatively through its layering of horizontal, or decumbent stems, and rarely by seedling. Dosage: Used as tea, decoction, infusion and tincture. Safety: There is no known negative safety information available.
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