Bugle, Common
Blue Bugle (Ajuga genevensis)
Bai Mao Xia Ku Cao (Ajuga decumbens)
Ajuga remota Benth (Labiatae)
carpenter's herb
Bugleherb, Bugleweed
Carpetweed
Common bugle
Sicklewort
Middle Comfrey
Ajuga pyramidalis
Yellow Bugle or Ground Pine (A. Chamaepitys)
ajuga salicifolia
Australian Bugle (Ajuga australis )
abuga
A. reptans alba
Atropurpurea
burgundy glow bugle weed
water bugle
sweet bugle
Virginian water horehound
gypsy weed
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Ajuga Reptans is the most common type of bugle weed.
Called "one of the mildest and best narcotics in the world", Ajuga reptans is used or was used for biliousness. For reducing blood pressure, it can be likened to the action of digitalis.
Used also traditonally for cough and throat irritation, and as a gentle laxative, boiled into a syrup.
Externally, Culpepper claims it can be used for bruising, and all kinds of external sores.
Herbalists may have derived the name Ajuga from a former name: Abuga.
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cough suppressant
anti-spasmodic
anti-malarial
diuretic
calmative
sedative
astringent
iodine inhibitor
treatment of hyperthyroidism
cardiac tonic
used historically* for tuberculosis
* also bleeding of the lungs; bloody coughing
styptich
quinsy
in poultices for wounds or bruising
for biliousness
weaning babies (used to reduce secretion of breast milk)
AJUGA DECUMBENS
The leaf decoction is used for bladder ailments, diarrhea, eye trouble, fever; juice for bugbites,
burns, cuts, and tumors. Fresh leaves in poultice of punded boiled rice applied externally to carcinoma.
Shoots: a decoction for neuralgic and rheumatic parts.
Seed: decoction for diarrhea, stomach ache.
Plant: abscesses, boils, bronchitis, burns, cancer, cold, colic, epistaxis, fever,
fungoid diseases, hemorrhage, hypertension, inflammation, pneumonia, snakebite, sore throat and tonsillitis.
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