dryadpharmacy: Galium aparine, with many common names including cleavers, clivers, goosegr

dryadpharmacy: Galium aparine, with many common names including cleavers, clivers, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, and grip grass, Amor del Hortelano,  Barweed, Bedstraw, Catchweed, Cleaverwort, Coachweed, Eriffe, Everlasting Friendship,  Gallium, Galium aparine, Glouteron, Goosebill, Gosling Weed, Grateron, Gratte-Langue, Grip Grass, Hayriffe, Hayruff, Hedge-Burs, Hedgeheriff, Herbe Collante, Love-Man, Mutton Chops, Rièble, Robin-Run-in-the-Grass, Scratchweed, Stick-a-Back, Sweethearts,“is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.Cleavers are annuals with creeping straggling stems which branch and grow along the ground and over other plants. They attach themselves with the small hooked hairs which grow out of the stems and leaves. The species is native to a wide region of Europe, North Africa and Asia from Britain and the Canary Islands to Japan. It is now naturalized throughout most of the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America, Australia, some oceanic islands and scattered locations in Africa. For some people, skin contact with Galium aparine causes an unpleasant localized rash known as contact dermatitis.Galium aparine is edible. The leaves and stems of the plant can be cooked as a leaf vegetable if gathered before the fruits appear. However, the numerous small hooks which cover the plant and give it its clinging nature can make it less palatable if eaten raw. Geese thoroughly enjoy eating G. aparine, hence one of its other common names, “goosegrass”. Cleavers are in the same family as coffee. The fruits of cleavers have often been dried and roasted, and then used as a coffee substitute which contains less caffeine.(pheasants and cleaver as food)Poultices and washes made from cleavers were traditionally used to treat a variety of skin ailments, light wounds and burns. As a pulp, it has been used to relieve poisonous bites and stings. To make a poultice, the entire plant is used, and applied directly to the affected area.Dioscorides reported that ancient Greek shepherds would use the barbed stems of cleavers to make a “rough sieve”, which could be used to strain milk. Linnaeus later reported the same usage in Sweden, a tradition that is still practiced in modern times.”(under :cleaver leaf enlarged)Looking at the names and sticky quality of Galium Aparine is probably a good herb for love and relation spells..Potent Anticancer  properties against breast cancer (excerpt from research:” The extract was cytotoxic in both breast cancer cell lines in a concentration and time dependent manner and showed G1 block after 72h extract treatment. Our study suggests that GA MeOH extract may have potential anti-cancer effects against breast cancer cells without impairing normal breast epithelial cells.   “) * see research link 27085941Prevents gluttony in some insects  (prevents them from chomping on your crops etc)   * see research link 12009319Antibacterial and antifungal (Excerpt from research:” It was established that teststrains of S. aureus, P. aeruginosa and C. albicans are highly sensitive and B. subtilis is moderately sensitive to lipophilic complex of Galium aparine herb.     “) *see research link vol3issue1/PartA/2.1.pdfIt is said to treat an over active bladder  *see link /PMC3821987/Relieves (skin) ulcers according to an article from 1883 by a doctor Quinlan  *see link PMC2372573/Contains compound Monotropein that kills the sensation of pain *see link galium-aparine.htmlAnti-inflammatory  * see also the same link galium-aparine.html  & 16204945Contains vitamin E *see link PartA/2.1.pdfRich in Linoleic acid (=omega-6 fatty acid=healthy) * see /PartA/2.1.pdfRich in Octacosane which is a compound that has mosquito killing & repellent  properties (  1,5 hours) *see PartA/2.1.pdf  &  14698514Research on Cleavers:http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-159-clivers.aspx?activeingredientid=159&activeingredientname=clivershttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2372573/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19894511https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27085941https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12009319https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3821987/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880947/http://belfastherbalist.blogspot.nl/2012/08/galium-aparine-l-monograph.htmlhttp://www.thepharmajournal.com/archives/2014/vol3issue1/PartA/2.1.pdfhttp://www.sigmaaldrich.com/life-science/nutrition-research/learning-center/plant-profiler/galium-aparine.htmlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16204945http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/papers/14698514 -- source link

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