Description: Dried Cut Gravel Root, Eupatorium purpureum
Status: Organic
Place Of Origin: USA
Botanical Name: Eupatorium purpureum. The herb also goes by several folk names like Queen of the Meadow, Kidney root and Joe Pye weed.
Benefit: Gravel Root, similar to Stone root, gets its name for its ability to clear gravel or stones from the bladder and kidneys and to prevent stone formation.
Use: Gravel root is used as tincture and decoction. To prepare a decoction, add one teaspoon of dried gravel root to a cup of water and boil the mixture. Allow the mixture to simmer for about ten minutes. This decoction needs to be taken three times a day.
Gravel Root, similar to Stone root, is a traditional herbal remedy for getting rid of stones in the body, such as kidney and gall bladder stones, as well as for preventing stone formation. In addition.
Gravel root contains active pharmacological compounds with proven anti-inflammatory effect, beneficial in inflammation of the bladder(cystisis), in urethritis, rheumatism and gout.
The root or rhizome of this herb is believed to facilitate in treating rheumatism and gout by augmenting the elimination of waste products from the kidneys.
Gravel root is used as tincture and decoction. To prepare a decoction, add one teaspoon of dried gravel root to a cup of water and boil the mixture. Allow the mixture to simmer for about ten minutes. This decoction needs to be taken three times a day.
