Toxic
Effect:
Calms nerves, promotes expectoration, loosens mucus
Areas of application:
Hoarseness, coughing when the voice fails, swollen throat, larynx and mouth mucous membranes, gout, rheumatism, lung and chest problems, consumption, stomach problems, gynecological diseases, as a wound healer, earache, wounds, relieves hemorrhoids
Plant parts used:
Root
Collection time:
Spring or autumn
To find:
In humus beech forests. Aronstab is protected! This plant is fresh, poisonous in all parts!!!
Ingredients:
Glycoside saponins, hydrogen cyanide, main active ingredient: aroin, coniine, pungent substances
Other:
Incense drives away vermin "if they are hit with the smoke, they fall over as if they were dead".
The arum becomes less dangerous when boiled and dried.
🛑 Attention: Touching the plant may cause reddening of the skin.
Hildegard von Bingen: It is neither lukewarm nor too strong, but has even and moderate warmth... A person who has a mucous fever in the stomach, from which various kinds of chills arise, is boiling the root of the arum in pure wine and let him drink it warm. A person in whom melancholy is growing often drinks wine; it softens the melancholy in him.