Background: The name Joe Pye weed is for a Native American man of the North East who used and applied the herb for its diaphoretic properties. The common name boneset indicates the its common use for assisting in the healing of broken bones. It was an honored and specific remedy in urinary calculi and gravel, having "the power to dissolve the concretions."
"Excellent in the treatment of the uric acid diathesis, irritation of the urinary tract being the chief symptom. It increases retrograde metamorphosis and eliminates the poison causing rheumatism. It stimulates the female reproductive. organs, and may be employed in labor and as a tonic in chronic uterine disease. In intermittent fever it has effected cures. It acts on the ganglionic system of nerves, and may be given to improve digestion. It stimulates waste, and may be employed in any case where an alterative is required." Ellingwood, 1919
"We think of it in dropsy, the result of lack of renal activity; in chronic irritation of the bladder, urinary calculi and albuminuria. In the last it is one of our best remedies." Petersen, 1905
Applications: Edema, arthritis, bursitis, cystitis, gall and kidney stones, atonic bladder, gout, kidney infection, neuralgia, rheumatism, uterine problems.
Increases urination. It is used to treat dropsy/edema, and other cases with swelling caused by excessive accumulation of serous fluid in tissue. Of benefit to the renal tract, increases elimination of fluid and solids through the urine. Benefits dyspepsia and chronic mucous imbalances and disfunctions of the gastro-intestinal, urinary and genital tracts. Used to improve tone and function of the uterus.Of benefit to incontinence, in which the vesical irritation is so great that the presence of a few drops of urine in the bladder causes a contraction and expulsion of the contents (ie: bed wetting, etc.). Impotence is improved by the use of gravel-root. An important remedy in female disorders.
Specific Indications: Vesical irritation; incontinence of urine; painful and frequent urination.
Description: This herbaceous, perennial, has horizontal, woody caudex, with many long, dark-brown fibers, from which sprout one or more solid, glabrous, green, sometimes purplish stems, 5 or 6 feet in height, with a purple band at the joints, about an inch broad. Leaves are to 6 in., oblong-ovate or lanceolate, pointed, feather-veined, coarsely serrate, slightly scabrous, with a soft pubescence beneath along the mid-vein and veinlets, thin, soft, on petioles 1 in.long, and from 8-12 in. long, 4 in. wide. Flowers are tubular, purple or pink-purple, to whitish, with multiple florets included in an 8-leaved calyx. Heads are in lax, dense, compound cylindrical corymbs, 4 to 5 together in the form of whorl. It grows in swamps and other low places, in dry woods and meadows.
Dosage:
Infusion: 1 tsp to 1 tblsp. herb infused for 15 min. in 1 cup of boiling water.
3 x daily.15 drops in a teaspoonful of water, given every 3 hours
Incontinence and : Infusion: 30 drops given 3 x a day, the last dose at bedtime.
Safety:
There is no known negative safety information available.
For educational purposes only This information has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This information is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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