Phytolacca

Also, Stephen J. Tonsor of Michigan State University and Mary F. Wilson of the Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Juneau, Alaska, found that some flowering plants, such as pokeweeds (Phytolacca americana) and English plantains (Plantago lanceolata), grow faster when potted with full or half sib lings than when potted with nonrelatives.

Altruism: Even Plants Can Do It - The Panda's Thumb 2007

No publications found so far for Tonsor and Phytolacca should be 1989

Altruism: Even Plants Can Do It - The Panda's Thumb 2007

Poke root Phytolacca americana has a well-deserved reputation as an herb that purifies the glands, including the breasts.

THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

Specific herbs that clear up this problem are dandelion root tea taken together with a combination of three parts echinacea root tincture and one part poke root Phytolacca americana.

THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

Other homeopathic remedies to consider include Phytolacca, Sanguinaria, and Hydratis—all in 6th to 30th potency.

THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

Of the twelve most frequently reported plants in poisoning incidents, only one, pokeweed Phytolacca decandra, is used medicinally.

The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

Of the twelve most frequently reported plants in poisoning incidents, only one, pokeweed Phytolacca decandra, is used medicinally.

The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

Few of such plants are those which can be used as laxatives and purgatives, for example, Cassia absus, C. alata, C. obtusifolia, Tamarindus indica and Phytolacca dodecandra.

Chapter 7 1991

The poke-weed (_Phytolacca_) (Fig.  98, _K_), so conspicuous in autumn on account of its dark-purple clusters of berries and crimson stalks, is our only representative of the family _Phytolaccaceæ_.

Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

It belongs to the rare Phytolacca family, and has an immense girth -- forty or fifty feet in some cases; at the same time the wood is so soft and spongy that it can be cut into with a knife, and is utterly unfit for firewood, for when cut up it refuses to dry, but simply rots away like a ripe water-melon.

Far Away and Long Ago 1881