from Latin, "little case of the shepherd"
Shepherds' Bag,
Shepherds Scrip,
Shepherds' Sprout,
Ladys' Purse,
Witches Pouches,
Rattle Pouches,
Case-weed,
Pick-Pocket,
Pick-Purse,
Blindweed,
Pepper and Salt,
poor Mans' Parmacettie,
Sanguinary,
Mothers' Heart'
Clappedpouch,
Bourse de Pasteur,
Hirtentasche,
Shovelweed
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Known as purse or pouch because of a similarity in shape to old fashioned
leather purses, also "Clappedpouch" used as a name for lepers begging, using a
cup at the end of a long pole.
European native, transplant to New World after
Pilgrims arrived.Introduced from Greenland where it arrived brought by Norsemen
1,000 years ago One of the most important drug plants of the Cruciferae
family.
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Choline,
acetylcholine,
other amines acting as vasoconstrictors and
haemostatics.
An organic acid called Bursinic acid,
a tannate and an
alkaloid,
Bursine, resembling sulphocyansinapine.
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(Haemostyptic)
haemmhorrage; especially bleeding kidneys,
external styptic,
ear
pain,
herb in poultice: St.Anthonys Fire (according to Culpepper)
an
astringent in diarrhoea,
haematuria,
hemhorroids,
chronic diarrhoea and
dysentery,
vulnerary in nosebleed,
externally in rheumatic infections,uterine
haemmhorage,cramp,catarrhal conditions of the bladder and
urethers,
antiscorbutic,
stimulant,
diuretic.,much used in kidney complaints and
dropsy,
haematuria (renal or vesical organs)
chronic mennorrhagia,
useful where
uric acid or insoluble phosphates or carbonates irritate the urinary tract.
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