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    Medicinal benefits of Bowman’s Root

    By s mFebruary 3, 2020Updated:February 3, 2020No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Bowman’s Root is a perennial flowering plant in the rose family and is inherent to eastern United States and Canada and spans from Southern Ontario to Georgia. It could be found west to Kentucky, Arkansas and Lousiana.

    This indigenous shrub can be found scattered in North America: Canada to Florida, on the eastern side of the Alleghenies. Does well in open hilly woods, in light gravelly soil.

    The root is quite thick with thin bark and many fissured rootlets, of bitter taste. The several erect, slender and smooth stems are 2–3 ft. high, and of a reddish or brownish colour. The leaves are alternate. Flowers are of white and pinkish colour, and can be seen in May. Matured fruit of two-valved, one-celled capsule, seeds are oblong, brown and bitter. The plant blooms with five petaled white flowers on wiry red stems from late spring to early summer.

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    The plant is found from Canada to Florida in rich woods, light, gravelly soils and in moist and shady situation. The flower blooms from May to August.

    Facts About Bowman’s Root

    Bowman's Root Quick Facts
    Name: Bowman's Root
    Scientific Name: Gillenia trifoliata
    Origin Native to eastern North America from Ontario to Georgia
    Name Bowman’s Root
    Scientific Name Gillenia trifoliata
    Native Native to eastern North America from Ontario to Georgia
    Common/English Name Indian Physic, Bowman’s root, American ipecac
    Name in Other Languages English: Bowman’s root, Bowman’s-root, Mountain Indian-physic;
    Swedish: Gillenia;
    French: Gillénie trifoliée
    Plant Growth Habit Erect herbaceous perennial
    Plant Size 100 cm (39 in) tall by 60 cm (24 in) wide
    Leaf Alternate, trifoliate, subsessile
    Medicinal parts The bark of the root
    Flowering Season Spring to summer
    Flower White, 5-petaled, star-shaped

    Plant description

    The herb is rhizomatous and perennial with semi-woody branches and 3-palmate leaves which blooms in midsummer with star shaped white or pale pink flowers. It is inherent to open woods with moist acidic to neutral soils and its native range is South East Canada to North Central and East USA from Ontario to Georgia. . Root is a medicinal part and is collected in autumn. It is nearly odorless and has nauseous and amorous taste. Roots are larger, tuberculated and rootlets resent on annulated appearance. It may be distinguished by drab colored and branching stems, its greater size, large, clasping, ovate-cordate, gashed, leafy and serrated stipules. Lower leaves are reddish brown color at the tips. Stipules are leafy, ovate and doubly incised and clasping. Flowers are fewer, smaller on slender peduncles hanging in loose panicles.

    Medicinal uses

    • North American Indians use it for treating amenorrhoea, dropsy, rheumatism, costiveness, dropsy, worms, dyspepsia, intermittent fever and worms.
    • Use it internally in small doses for treating colds, constipation, diarrhea, asthma and bronchial complaints.
    • Use the roots externally for rheumatism.
    • For bee and other stings, use the cold root infusion or chew the roots.
    • Use it as a wash for treating swellings and bee stings.
    • Use the plant poultice for treating leg swellings.
    • The plant is used for treating toothaches.

    Dose

    As an emetic, 20–35 grains of the powder, as often as required; as a tonic, 2–4 grains. As a diaphoretic, 6 grains in cold water, and repeated at intervals of 2–3 hr.

    Side effects

    Over doses of the infusion causes severe vomiting and purging.

    References:

    https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=514066#null

    https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Gillenia+trifoliata

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillenia_trifoliata

    https://practicalplants.org/wiki/Gillenia_trifoliata

    https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/gillenia-trifoliata/

    https://westcoastislandblooms.wordpress.com/2015/07/02/gillenia-trifoliata/

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    Bowman’s Root Scientific Classification

    Scientific Name: Gillenia trifoliata

    Rank Scientific Name & (Common Name)
    Kingdom Plantae (Plants)
    Subkingdom Viridiplantae  (Green plants)
    Infrakingdom Streptophyta  (Land plants)
    Superdivision Embryophyta
    Division Tracheophyta  (Vscular plants, tracheophytes)
    Class Magnoliopsida
    Subclass Rosidae
    Order Rosales
    Family Rosaceae  (Roses)
    Genus Gillenia Moench
    Species Gillenia trifoliata (L.) Moench (Bowman’s root)
    Synonyms
    • Ipecacuanha virginiana Garsault
    • Porteranthus trifoliatus (L.) Britt.
    • Spiraea trifoliata L.
    • Ulmaria trifoliata (L.) Hill
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