American Cranesbill Extract

American Cranesbill extract (Geranium maculatum)

American Cranesbill is an astringent, anti-haemorrhagic, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, and vulnerary herb, especially useful at speeding the treatment of diarrhea, dysentry, and hemorrhoids. It’s high in tannins, and is also one of the safest gastrointestinal astringent herbs you can use. For women, it can be used to remedy excessive menstrual bleeding and uterine hemmoraging, as well as a douche for excessive discharge.

Folk Uses:

Several Native American tribes used the plan as for sore throats, canker sores, infected gums, and oral thrush. The Mesquakie tribe brewed a root tea for toothache and for painful nerves and mashed the roots for treating hemorrhoids. When European settlers encountered the herb, they primarily used it to treat diarrhea, internal bleeding, cholera, and general diseases. Iit was also boiled with milk and cinnamon to treat dysentery. In Bulgaria, the aromatic leaves of Geranium macrorrhizum are considered an aphrodisiac.

Combinations with other herbs:

For peptic ulcers, meadowsweet, comfrey, marshmallow, and agrimony combine well. For leucorrhea, it can be combined with beth root or made into suppositories with coconut butter, white oak bark, echinacea, golden seal, and raspberry leaf. Combines well with yarrow and coconut butter as suppositories to treat hemorrhoids.

Dosage:

As a decoction, 1-2 teaspoons of the rhizome per cup of water, simmered for 15 minutes and taken three times daily. As a tincture, 1-2 ml three times daily.

Contraindications:

American Cranesbill should only be taken for a few weeks at a time.

Extract contains alcohol. 

To purchase,  please email to us your prescription or submit this form first or call us to provide more information over the phone. Herbal extracts may interact with other therapeutic substances and as a general rule are not recommended for use by children, in pregnancy and lactation, and if you are on certain prescription medications.