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Black knapweed

Centaurea nigra
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Introduction

This page is the result of the aggregation of content from 1 source. At Phyto-info, we have indexed, assembled and synthesized all the information found to summarize it, to make it readable and easy to access. However, this plant is listed in one of our books. We have nevertheless carefully selected this source from recognized and reliable people.

  • Physician Dr. François-Joseph Cazin (1788-1864) was a French physician. Author of an imposing Practical and Reasoned Treatise on Indigenous Medicinal Plants, he is considered the ancestor of the French school of phytotherapy.

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Practical information

Family

Asteraceae

Parts used

Picking info

Medicine cabinet

3 traditional uses

Bronchitis 1
  • Nineteenth century French physician Cazin, F.-J. (1876). Traité pratique et raisonné des plantes médicinales indigènes et acclimatées : avec un atlas de 200 plantes lithographiées (4e ed.) [p. 262, "catarrhe pulmonaire"]. P. Asselin, libraire de la faculté de medecine. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58310855/
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Hemorrhage 1
  • Nineteenth century French physician Cazin, F.-J. (1876). Traité pratique et raisonné des plantes médicinales indigènes et acclimatées : avec un atlas de 200 plantes lithographiées (4e ed.) [p. 262, "hémorrhagies passives"]. P. Asselin, libraire de la faculté de medecine. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58310855/
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Hepatopathy 1
  • Nineteenth century French physician Cazin, F.-J. (1876). Traité pratique et raisonné des plantes médicinales indigènes et acclimatées : avec un atlas de 200 plantes lithographiées (4e ed.) [p. 262, "affections lentes du foie"]. P. Asselin, libraire de la faculté de medecine. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58310855/
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Dosages

Internal decoction

Powder of dried plants internal intake

2 plant properties

2 constituents

0 common names

scientific name

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Children

Pregnant or breastfeeding women

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Tastes

Elementary energies

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