Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Wonderful Plants
Type:
Remedy
Chapter:
633.73.02
633.73.02 Goodyera pubescens
Names: Goodyera repens.
English: Creeping lady's tresses; Downy rattlesnake plantain; Lesser rattlesnake plantain.
Botany: Orchidoideae; rare; green underground creeper; occasional skinny stems bear flowers arranged in a spiral; flowers twist toward the sun; forests and bogs of Europe, Scandinavia, Canada; does not survive fire, only in forests at least 95 years old.
Mind
Nervousness.
Body
Fever: internal weaknesses, scrophula.
Eyes: pain; troubles.
Mouth: sore mouth in babies.