Chelidonium minus, Lesser Celandine or Pilewort

Picture Bulliard, Herbier de la France, 1776-1783

Picture Gourdon & Naudin, Nouvelle iconographie fourragère, Atlas, 1865-1871

Botanical name:


Ranunculus ficaria

Parts used:


Whole plant

Temperature & Taste:


Hot, dry. Pungent, biting

Uses:


1. Clears Damp, Opens Obstructions:
-Good for the Spleen; Spleen obstruction, hardness; Scrofula
-Jaundice
-bleeding Hemorrhoids

2. Externally:
-topically for Hemorrhoids, it is ‘incomparable’ (Salmon)
-Scrofula, Wens, Sores
-creeping Ulcers, ‘for which it is a kind of Specific’ (Salmon); Creeping Ulcers are usually skin cancers
-applied to rotten Teeth


Main Combinations:




Cautions:


Caution with internal use.

Main Preparations used:


Distilled water