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Shepherds Purse Herb Powder 1/4 lb bottle: HE

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Our Price:	$12.09
Shipping Weight:	4.00 ounces
SKU:	B-2420-025LB
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Capsella - Botanical Powder -- Approximately 600 mg. each capsule. 1/2 teaspoon of powder is about equal to one capsule. Powder can be consumed by sprinkling it over your food or mixing it with a syrup such as maple or chocolate. You could also mix it with orange juice. The citric acid in the orange juice will help to mask any unpleasant powder tastes.

Other common names: Shepherd's Purse, Mother's Heart, Case Weed, Pick Pocket, Shovelweed, Sanguinary, Lady's Purse, Shepherd's Heart, Cocowort, Witches' Pouches, St. James Weed, Toywort

Capsella is used chiefly to control both internal and external bleeding. But it is also thought to relieve urinary tract infection, excessive menstrual flow, diarrhea, hemorrhoids and varicose veins ...and, it is edible and nutritious.

History:
Capsella is a hardy, self-pollinating annual, native to the Old World, and now grows profusely (sometimes regarded as a weed) in the fields, waste places and along roadsides of temperate areas throughout the world. The plant produces a stem that rises from a basal rosette of lobed leaves, with smaller, alternately-growing leaves farther up the stem and terminating in small white flowers that bloom throughout the year. Capsella tolerates poor growing conditions in both sandy and loamy, well-drained soil in sun or partial shade and reaches a height of eighteen inches. The heart-shaped seedpods apparently resemble the leather pouches once carried by shepherds, hence, the plant's common names, Mother's Heart and Shepherd's Purse.

Capsella has a long history. It was known to be a food as early as 595 B.C., as evidenced by excavations from Catal Huyuk, a large, Neolithic, urban cultural site in Turkey, and seeds were found in the stomach of the preserved ''Tollund Man'' (c. 500 B.C. - A.D. 400), who was discovered in a Danish bog. Early use of Capsella in herbal medicine was confirmed by the first-century Roman scholar and naturalist, Pliny (A.D. 223-279), who praised the seeds as an effective laxative.

In the 1500s, the Italian physician, Pietro Mattioli, cited the herb to help stop excessive bleeding, a use that has remained to this day, and it is interesting to note that modern research has confirmed the plant's hemostatic properties. The seventeenth-century herbalist, Nicholas Culpepper, recommended the herb's medicinal qualities, saying, ''few plants possess greater virtues than this [Capsella]'' and went on to prescribe it for bleeding from internal or external wounds; and during World War I, when there was a shortage of certain German drugs to control bleeding, British doctors used Capsella extracts as a substitute.

Capsella occupies a place in both Eastern and Western herbal medicines. In Chinese medicine, it is used as an astringent and also to stop bleeding, especially postpartum bleeding, as well as a treatment for hypertension and improving eyesight. The leaves are vitamin-packed and are used in soups or cooked as a spinach-like vegetable or added to salads.

Capsella is a sweet, dry, cooling herb, and the whole plant is used in herbal medicine. Some of the constituents in Capsella include saponins, mustard oil, flavonoids (including quercetin), resin, monoamines, choline, acetylcholine, sitosterol, bursinic acid and vitamins A, B, C and K.

Beneficial Uses:
Capsella has been employed for centuries in both Eastern and Western herbal medicine as an effective hemostat or blood coagulant (both internally and externally) that has been used to reduce or stop hemorrhage and bleeding from internal organs, particularly controlling profuse menstruation, postpartum and uterine bleeding, and blood in the urine. Capsella is thought to be a very useful herb for gynecological conditions.

Used externally, Capsella's styptic and coagulant properties have been used to reduce bleeding in wounds and to stop nosebleed. Used topically, it is also thought to be a vaso-constrictor that is useful in alleviating varicose veins.

Capsella is considered a diuretic with antiseptic properties that promotes the flow of urine, and as such, it helps to rid toxins from the body through the increased urine. The herb has been used to treat urinary tract infections, such as cystitis, abscess of the bladder, white mucous matter in the urine, and it also helps to flush uric acid and other matter (stones and gravel) from the kidneys.

As an astringent, Capsella is believed to be very helpful in treating diarrhea, hemorrhoids and dysentery.

Recommendations:

Take two (2) capsules, two (2) times each day with water at mealtimes.

Botanical Name:

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Safety Info:

Capsella should not be used during pregnancy, as it is a uterine stimulant. Those who take prescription kidney medications should not use this herb.

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