North American Wild Quinine

In the Eastern and Mid West part of North America you can grow own Wild Quinine which is good for a fever. Just make a little tea from the roots. Wild Quinine is a native perennial plant found growing wild in prairies, rock outcrops, waste places and roadsides from Maryland to Minnesota and Georgia and as far west as Wisconsin and Arkansas. Once established along one of your fences it will maintain itself if it is native to your area. It would be well worth your time to encourage it to grow on your farm or lot. A word of caution: This plant may become weedy or invasive in some regions or habitats and may displace desirable vegetation if not properly managed.

Unless you already have Wild Quinine growing in your area and you want to try raising your own Wild Quinine it is suggested that you sow the seed in spring in a greenhouse. When they are large enough to handle, put the seedlings into individual pots and grow them inside the greenhouse for at least their first winter. Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. Plant them out of the way along a fence line but where they will be easily accessible.

Wild Quinine grows to a height of about three feet and has alternate, long rough, hairy, serrated and lancolate, leaves that are often over a foot in length at the base. Leaves grow smaller and more sessile, as they ascend up the rough, round, stem, which branches at the flowers top. The flowers bloom from June to Aug. they are small, white and daisy-like, having 5 tiny white rays or petals and growing in numerous clusters, appearing to be an unorganized umbelli ferae. Wild Quinine has large, swollen, dark brown roots it grows first vertically and then may expand horizontally. Collect flowering tops and roots, dry for later herb use. The plant is not edible.

Wild Quinine is a very valuable medicinal plant. It is used as or is a medicine which possesses the power of arresting morbid periodical menstral movements. Also Which is to say wild quinine promotes menstrual discharge. A poultice made from the fresh leaves can be applied to burns. The root is used in the treatment of inflammation of the urinary passages and kidneys, or amenorrhea the: absence or suppression of normal menstrual flow.

A poultice can be made for stomach aches by steaming a half cup of leaves and applying the leaves to the area when they are as hot as you can tolerate. Capsules are available at health food stores that can be taken daily as an effective way to control allergies.

It has traditionally been used in alternative medicine to treat debility, fatigue, respiratory infection, gastrointestinal infection, and venereal disease. Wild Quinine is currently being used with great success by hundreds of herbalists throughout the United States and Europe for diseases such as lymphatic congestion, colds, ear infections, sore throats, fevers, infections, and Epstein barr virus. The tops of the plant have a medicinal "quinine-like" bitterness and are used to treat intermittent fevers. This earned the plant one of its common names, "wild quinine." Parthenium has been studied in scientific laboratories and clinics across Europe. Findings from these studies indicate that this medicinal herb stimulates the immune system. This herb also contains the four esters which increase the ability of the blood cells to digest foreign particles and aid in the stages of healing wounds in living organisms. It appears to be a liver-stimulating bitter that promotes blood detoxification; thus the common name "snakeroot." Parthenium* has also been shown to both mobilize and activate natural killer cells and other immune cells. Wild Quinine herb has been commonly sold as (or mixed with) Echinacea purpurea for more than 50 years. They are both in the sunflower family and their roots bear an uncanny resemblance to each other. Many people have been using these parthenium* products, however, and receiving benefits.

*Noun1.Parthenium - small genus of North American herbs and shrubs with terminal panicles of small ray flowers

The American Indians used Wild Quinine as a poultice on burns and also used it as a tea for coughs and sore throats

Recipe for Wild Quinine Tea (Medicinal)
Take one teaspoon of dried root and add 8oz of boiling water and steep for 10 minutes. Drink warm at bed time.

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