CHICKWEED OIL 100ml
Notes: Cooling green chickweed plant infused in sweet almond oil has been used for the relief of itchy and irritated skin. Chickweed plant is healing, cooling and soothing.
BOTANICAL NAME: Stellaria media
Common names: Chickweed; starweed
Family: Caryophyllaceae
HABITAT: English waysides, gardens and everywhere in temperate climates the little chickweed with its starry white flowers springs up.
PARTS USED: Whole plant
PROPERTIES: Demulcent Refrigerant
HISTORY: Mrs Grieve tells that 'the plant chopped and boiled in lard makes a fine green cooling ointment, good for pile sand sores, and cutaneous diseases.' Culpepper calls it a 'fine, soft, pleasing herb, under the dominion of the Moon. ...it is effectual for all imposturmes and swellings whatsoever; for all scabs, redness in the face, wheals, pushes, itch..' Potters Herbal tells us that Chickweed is used for eczema, psoriasis, ulcers and boils and used to be used as a salad herb as a source of Vitamin C.
