
Cascara Sagrada
Western North America
Cascara Sagrada is used primarily as a laxative and stimulates the peristaltic action of the intestine. Cascara Sagrada has been used in traditional medicine to improve stomach, liver, and pancreas secretions and to break up and remove gallstones from the gallbladder.
Hombre Grande
The Carribean, Jamaica, Central & South America
Hombre Grande has antifungal, antiulcer, antimalarial, anticancer, and insecticide properties. It has been traditional medicine topically to treat measles and orally to treat constipation and diarrhea, intestinal parasite infections, and fever.
Nettle
Africa, Asia, North America
Nettle has anti-inflammatory, anticancer, diuretic, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiulcer, and analgesic activities. Nettle root is used for an enlarged prostate, for joints, and as a diuretic. Nettle leaves are used for arthritis, sore muscles, hair loss, anemia, poor circulation, diabetes, enlarged spleen, allergies, eczema and rash, ad asthma.
Rhubarb Root
China
Rhubarb root is used to regulate the digestive tract to treat digestive issues that include diarrhea, constipation, stomach pain, and acid reflux. It is also used to treat kidney stones and kidney disease, to chelate heavy metals, to remove acids and mucus, and to intracellularly cleanse cells.
