Plant Information

Common Name: TOADFLAX
Scientific Name: Linaria vulgaris

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R92.00

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Description

• Perennial
• Highly ornamental.
• Slender upright perennial with linear leaves, yellow snapdragon-like flowers marked orange at the mouth and with a long spur.
• Flowers summer to autumn.
• Hardy.
• Full sun.

Culinary Uses

• None

Parts Used

• Aerial parts.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• Astringent, hepatic and detergent - cleanses toxins from the tissue.
• Powerful qualities as a purgative, diuretic, enteritis, gall bladder complaints, edema - recommended in jaundice and scrofula (kliertuberkulose).
• For use only by qualified practitioners - dosage is critical.
• Externally:
• Skin diseases.
• Poultice to hemorrhoids.
• Cooling ointment - chop the whole herb and boil it in lard till soft, and strain.
• The result is a fine green ointment for piles, sores, malignant ulcers and skin eruptions.

Other Uses

• Used in the Middle Ages for laundry starch.
• In Sweden - excellent fly poison when boiled in milk.
• Stand the infusion about where flies are troublesome.
• The flowers yield dyes.

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