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Avens (508 words) |
 | Avens is an astringent herb, used principally for problems affecting the mouth, throat, and gastrointestinal tract. |
| Avens has been used in a lotion or ointment as a soothing remedy for hemorrhoids. |
| Avens reputedly has a mild quinine-type action in lowering fever. |
| botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Avens - Herb Profile and Information (1475 words) |
| The stem-leaves are placed alternately and have at their base two stipules (leaf-like members that in many plants occur at the junction of the base of the leaf with the stem). |
| The flowers, which are in bloom all the summer and autumn, often as late as December, are less conspicuous than the round fruitheads, which succeed them, which are formed of a mass of dark crimson achenes, each terminating in an awn, the end of which is curved into a hook. |
| In modern herbal medicine Avens is considered useful in diarrhoea, dysenteries, leucorrhoea, sore throat, ague, chills, freshcatarrh, intermittent fevers, chronic and passive haemorrhages, gastric irritation and headache. |
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