Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
666.45.08
666.45.08 Calomeria amaranthoides, Humea elegans
Names: Greek kalos (beautiful) and meris (part) and amaranthoides, like Amaranthus.
English: Plume Bushes.
Botany: Australia, small colonies, along river flats, coastal, flowering after bush fires, volcanic basalt soil.
DD: Rhus toxicodendron; Primula obconica.
Body
General: aphrodisiac.
Eyes: conjunctivitis.
Skin: dermatitis, like Primula obconica.