Effect:
blood purifying, diaphoretic, dissolving, digestive, cholesterol lowering, diuretic, laxative, antispasmodic, regulating
Areas of application:
spasmodic bile problems, regulate bile flow, gallstones, skin blemishes, chronic rashes, jaundice, hemorrhoids, pulmonary catarrh, regulates cholesterol levels, migraines, depression, mood swings, psoriasis, psoriasis, MS (multiple sclerosis), constipation, diarrhea, skin diseases, abdominal pain, as an antispasmodic
Plant parts used:
Herb without root
Collection time:
Before and during flowering (flowering time is from May to July)
To find:
Fumitory is often found on roadsides, on stony ground, on fallow land and on the edges of fields.
Ingredients:
Bitter substances, resin, mucus, isoquinoline alkaloids, protopine, fumaric acid, choline, flavonoids
Other:
☕ Tea: 1 teaspoon of Fumitory is poured with 1/4 liter of boiling water and left to steep for about 10 minutes. 3 cups per day are completely sufficient, more would be too much. Any gall tea should not be drunk immediately before or after meals, but in between. At least 30 minutes should pass before the next meal.
Fumes can be used well in tea blends, for example with dandelion, yarrow, birch and nettle.
The common fume is an annual plant and grows between 10 and 50 cm high. The stems are hollow, bare and branchy and grow upright to ascending. The leaves are stalked and arranged alternately. They are bare and bluish-green, which makes them look like “smoke” from a distance. The upright inflorescence stem contains up to 80 racemose flowers. Four petals are pink to purple, often crowned with dark red to black at the tip. The fruit stalk is upright with single-seeded, spherical to obovate, green nuts. The common fumigant root has roots 20 to 60 centimeters deep.
Small quantities of smoke can also be included in spring salads.
🛑 Warning: Overdose can cause stomach pain. Patients with seizures and epilepsy should avoid fumes, as should pregnant and nursing mothers. It is contraindicated in glaucoma patients. Allopathic medications for high blood pressure increase the effect.
Fumitory is used to make the spirits of the deceased appear and is known in alchemy as one of the means of making oneself invisible.
Among the Celts and Germanic tribes, the very old plant is known as a ritual incense herb when one wanted to receive instructions from the other world or was not sure which path to take.
The Celts smoked fumes as a witch's and magic herb. The plant is said to promote intuition and determination and relieve headaches.
Fumitory herb can be mixed into herbal cigarettes.