- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Compositae
- English Names
- Water Agrimony
- Doubletooth
- Natural Habitat
- in damp places: Europe (including Great Britain)
- Siberia
- Caucasus
- China
- Part(s) Used
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- Constituent(s)
- iron
- tannic acid
- sodium
- phosphorus
- essential oil
- mucilage
- Action
- herb: antiscorbutic
- emmenagogue
- antiseptic
- astringent
- aperient
- diuretic
- styptic
- sudorific
- febrifuge
- sedative
- mildly narcotic; the plant affords a black dye
- which in China is used for colouring whiskers; root: aperient
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