ORGANIC CHICKWEED CREAM 60ml
Notes: Chickweed Cream calms and cools the skin. It has a long history of use to relieve skin irritations such as dermatitis, hives, eczema and psoriasis and is mild enough to use on baby's skin. Positive Medicine's chickweed cream is easiy absorbed & contains shea butter, evening primrose oil & vitamin E.
Botanical Name: Stellaria Media
Common names: Chickweed Starflower
Family: Caryophyllaceae
Habitat: English and European waysides and waste ground. Chickweed is also often found in gardens and cultivated ground.
Parts used: The whole plant collected in the Spring.
Properties: Demulcent (soothing) Refrigerant (cooling)
History: Chickweed, the common name came, was thought to have come about because the plant was popularly used for feeding birds and chickens. However is has also a long history of being used for humans in various ways. Culpepper calls it a ..'fine soft pleasing herb, under thedominion of the Moon......and is effectual for all impostumes and swellings, whatsoever; for all redness in the face, wheals, pushes, itch or scabs, the juice being either simply used, or boile din hog's grease'......today we tend to substitute the hog's grease for something a little more appealing such as shea butter and evening primrose oils. However, the country people of past centuries used chickweed juice as a scurvy treatment so it probably contains good amounts of Vitamin C and other nutrients.
