PDR for Herbal Medicines

HERBAL MONOGRAPHS CLEAVERS/193

Wine decoction: For diarrhea soak 2 to 4 gm powdered drug

with red wine)

Storage: The herb should be protected from light.

LITERATURE

'W* Bilia AR, Ctalano S, Fontana C, Morelli I, Palme E, A new

saponin from Potentilla tormentilla. In: PM 58(7)23. 1992.

Geiger C et al., EUagitannins from Alchemilla xanthochlora and

Potentilla erecta. In: PM 60(4):384. 1994.

Glasl H, DAZ 123:1979. 1983.

Lund K, Rimpler H, (1985) Dtsch Apoth Ztg 125(3): 105.

Lund K, Rimpler H, (1985) Tormenullwurzel. Dtsch Apoth Z

125:105-107.

Lund K, Tormentillwurzelstock. Phytochemische Untersuchungen

des Rhizoms von Potentilla erecta (L.) RAUSCHEL. In:

Dissertation Universitiit Freiburg. 1986.

Scholz E, Rimpler H, Osterr Apoth Ztg 48:138. 1994.

Vennat B et al., J Pharm Belg 47:485. 1992.

Further information in:

Hansel R, Keller K, Rimpler H. Schneider G (Hrsg.), Hagers

^ Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis. 5. Aufl., Bde 4-6

(Drogen): Springer Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1992-

1994.

Madaus G, Lehrbuch der Biologischen Arzneimittel, Bde 1-3,

Nachdruck, Georg Olms Verlag Hildesheim 1979.

Schulz R, Hansel R. Rationale Phytotherapie, Springer Verlag

Heidelberg 1996.

Steinegger E, Hansel R, Pharmakognosie. 5. Aufl., Springer

Verlag Heidelberg 1992.

Teuscher E, Biogene Arzneimittel, 5. Aufl., Wiss. Verlagsges.

Stuttgart 1997.

Wichtl M (Hrsg.), Teedrogen. 4. Aufl., Wiss. Verlagsges.

Stuttgart 1997.

Citrullus colocynthis

See Bitter Apple

t — .—.—

Citrus aurantifolia

See Lime

Citrus aurantium

See Bitter Orange

Citrus limon

See Lemon

Citrus sinensis

See Sweet Orange

Cladonia pyxidata

See Cupmoss

Claviceps purpurea

See Ergot

Cleavers

Galium aparine

DESCRIPTION

Medicinal Parts: The medicinal parts are the aerial parts

collected during the flowering season and dried, as well as

the fresh, flowering herb and the fresh or dried whole plant.

Flower and Fruit: There are a few small white or greenish

flowers in axillary, peduncled cymes. The corolla is about

• 1.5 to 1.7 mm long and has a pointed tip. The pedicles do not
  turn back before the fruit ripens. The 4 to 7 mm long
  mericarps are covered in barbed bristles.

Leaves, Stem and Root: The plant is 60 to 150 cm high. The

stem is decumbent or climbing, sharply quadrangular even to

the point of being winged and branched. There are long

cauline leaves. The margins and midrib of the leaves are

thorny. The foliage leaves are arranged in false whorls of 6

or 8. They are lanceolate from a wedge-shaped base, 30 to 60

mm long and 3 to 8 mm wide, obtuse and thorny tipped.

Habitat: A common wild plant throughout Europe, in Asia

from Siberia to the Himalayas, and in North and South

America.

Production: Cleavers is the flowering herb of the aerial part

of Galium aparine, which is garnered and then dried.

Other Names: Clivers, Goosegrass, Barweed, Hedgeheriff,

Hayriffe, Eriffe, Grip Grass, Hayruff, Catchweed, Scrat-

weed, Mutton Chops, Robin-Run-in-the-Grass, Love-Man,

Goosebill, Everlasting Friendship, Bedstraw, Coachweed,