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(f; MBB); Heatstroke (f; SKJ); Hematuria (f; MBB); Hemorrhoid (f; MBB); Hepatosis (f; KAB;
KAP; MBB); High Blood Pressure (1; MBB; MPI); Impotence (f; DEP); Infection (1; WO2);
Infertility, female (f; HHB); Inflammation (f; KAB; MBB); Leprosy (f; KAB); Mycosis (1; WO2);
Nephrosis (f; KAB; KAP); Nyctalopia (f; KAB); Ophthalmia (f; KAB); Pain (f; SKJ); Pulmonosis
(f; MBB); Rheumatism (f; HH2; SUW); Salmonella (1; WO2); Schistosomiasis (f; HH2); Shigella
(1; WO2); Smallpox (f; DEP); Spermatorrhea (f; SKJ); Staphylococcus (1; WO2); Thirst (f;
SKJ); Tuberculosis (1; PR14:118); Uterosis (f; MBB); VD (f; KAP; PR14:118); Water Retention
(f; DEP; HHB; MPI; SUW).
Dosages (Shatavari) — 12–20 ml infusion (KAP); 56–112 ml decoction (KAP); 20–30 g powdered
herb (KAP).
Extracts (Shatavari) — Methanol extracts antitussive, IC40 = 200 mg/kg orl mus, IC58.5 = 400
mg/kg orl mus. Contains 4 saponins, shatavarin I to IV. Shatavarin IV is a glucoside of sarsapogenin
(two molecules of rhamnose and one of glucose). At doses 20–500 μg/ml, it specifically blocks
ocytocin.SHAVEGRASS, GREAT SCOURING RUSH (Equisetum hyemale L.) +Activities (Shavegrass) — Abortifacient (f; DEM); Astringent (f; CRC); Depurative (f; CRC);
Diaphoretic (f; CRC); Diuretic (f; CRC; DEM); Hemostat (f; CRC).
Indications (Shavegrass) — Adenopathy (f; DEM); Backache (f; DEM); Bleeding (f; CRC);
Cancer (f; CRC); Carcinoma (f; JLH); Cataract (f; DEM); Cholecystosis (f; CRC); Cold (f; DEM);
Conjunctivosis (f; DEM); Constipation (f; DEM); Cystosis (f; CRC); Dermatosis (f; DEM); Diar-
rhea (f; DEM); Dysentery (f; CRC); Dysmenorrhea (f; CRC; DEM); Dysuria (f; CRC; DEM);
Embolism (f; CRC); Enuresis (f; CRC); Fever (f; CRC); Fistula (f; CRC); Gonorrhea (f; DEM);
Hemorrhoid (f; CRC); Incontinence (f; CRC); Lumbago (f; DEM); Nephrosis (f; DEM); Ophthalmia
(f; CRC; DEM); Pain (f; DEM); Prostatosis (f; DEM); Pulmonosis (f; CRC); Sore (f; CRC); Stone
(f; CRC); Syphilis (f; DEM); Tuberculosis (f; CRC); Urethrosis (f; CRC); VD (f; DEM); Water
Retention (f; CRC; DEM).
Contraindications, Interactions, and Side Effects (Shavegrass) — “Classified by the FDA as
an Herb of Undefined Safety: Infusion of whole plants used sometimes in dropsical and renal
diseases but the diuretic action is very feeble. Cattle overdosed for diuresis have voided blood.
Said to have caused poisoning in California. Horsetails are said to develop a powerful nerve
poison, aconitic acid. Sheep and cattle are poisoned by grazing the fresh plant; horses, usually
by eating the dried plant in hay. It produces, especially when dried, sudden symptoms of weakness
and loss of appetite followed, after a few weeks, by loss of muscular control, excitement, and
falling, and in acute cases, labored respiration, rapid, weak pulse, diarrhea, convulsions, coma,
and death” (CRC).SHEEP SORREL (Rumex acetosella L.) ++Used interchangeably with R. acetosa (HHB).
Activities (Sheep Sorrel) — Allergenic (1; WOI); Antipyretic (f; EFS; FAD; KAB); Antitumor
(1; FNF); Depurative (f; EFS); Diaphoretic (f; EFS; KAB; WOI); Diuretic (f; FAD; PNC; WOI);
Hemostat (f; EFS); Laxative (1; APA; EFS); Peristaltic (f; APA).
Indications (Sheep Sorrel) — Bleeding (f; EFS); Bruise (f; DEM); Cancer (1; FAD; FNF; WOI);
Cancer, colon (1; FNF; JLH); Cancer, eye (1; FNF; JLH); Cancer, face (1; FNF; JLH); Cancer,
skin (1; FNF; JLH); Cancer, stomach (1; FNF; JLH); Cancer, throat (1; FNF; JLH); Constipation