Alkanet Root

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Alkanet Glycerite Liquid Extract (1:5) 1 oz - No Flavor 522022 $21.21
1 oz - Strawberry 522023 $23.47
1 oz - Vanilla 522024 $23.47
1 oz - Chocolate 522025 $23.47
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Alkanet Root Tea 25 tea bags 514532 $20.30
50 tea bags 514533 $31.59
Alkanet Root Tea (Loose) 4 oz 514530 $18.32
8 oz 514531 $29.74
Alkanet Root Tea 25 tea bags 514532 $20.30
Alkanet Root - 450 mg 100 capsules 514527 $22.08
Alkanet Root Powder 4 oz 514528 $19.61
1 oz 514529 $9.96
Alkanet Root Cream 2 oz 514534 $25.65
Alkanet Root - Salve Ointment 2 oz 514535 $30.55

• Used against irritations, inflammations, fever, jaundice, burns, bruises and much more.


• Relief from irritations, inflammations, fever, jaundice, burns, bruises and much more.


• Traditionally used to help support irritations, inflammations, fever, jaundice, burns, bruises and much more.


• Helps support the fight against irritations, inflammations, fever, jaundice, burns, bruises and much more.
Alkanet Root
Alkana tinctoria
(Dyer's Bugloss, Anchusa tinctoria)

Medicinal Usage

In an ointment, alkanet was used externally to help support wounds, skin irritations, rashes, burns and bed-sores. Culpeper said that, made into a vinegar, it "helps yellow jaundice, spleen, and gravel in the kidneys."

Culinary Usage

The flowers and young leaves of alkanet were eaten raw in salads or cooked like spinach.

Miscellaneous

In the Middle Ages alkanet was mainly grown for its root, from which was extracted a reddish dye. Powdered, it was also used cosmetically as a rouge. Harvey claimed that there is no evidence for the plant being cultivated in England before the late sixteenth century.

Alkanet Root is cultivated in Central and Southern Europe for its dye, which is readily extracted by oils. It is used to give a red color to salves, etc., and in staining wood in imitation of rosewood, or mahogany. This is done by rubbing it with oil in which the Alkanet root has been soaked. About 8 to 10 tons were annually imported from France and Germany.

The species are hispid or pubescent herbs, with oblong, entire leaves, and bracteated racemes, rolled up before the flowers expand. The corolla is rather small, between funnel and salver-shaped; usually purplish-blue, but in some species yellow or whitish; the calyx enlarges in fruit. The root, which is often very large in proportion to the size of the plant, yields in many of the species a red dye from the rind.

Health-wise, Alkanet Root can be used to help with irritations, inflammation, jaundice, ailments involving the spleen, gravel in the kidneys, back pain and fevers. Externally, Alkanet Root helps to mend burns, wounds and bruising.

General Herb Information

Bugloss - Four interesting plants of the Borage family, with characteristic hairy leaves and stems and with flowers that are rose colored at first and later turn a beautiful light or purplish blue are Dyer's Bugloss or real alkanet (Alkanna tinctoria); Common Alkanet (Anchusa ofticinalis) which is not real alkanet; Italian Bugloss (Anchusa azurea) variety Dropmore; Viper's Bugloss or Blue-weed (Echium vulgare).

Propagation: By seed, quite easy germination, self-sows freely; by root division in the spring.

Nature of Plant: Italian Bugloss grows to 5 feet, the flowers 3/4 inch across, are in purplish blue clusters; a vivid high spot in the garden and splendid for flower arrangements.

Common Alkanet grows to 18 inches, flowers 3/4 inch across, bright blue and useful for masses in flower border.

Dyer's Bugloss is much cultivated in southern Europe, flowers are purplish blue, the root very large in proportion to the rest of the plant, height of plant 20 inches.

Viper's Bugloss, an erect bristly plant, 2 1/2 feet tall, found on road-sides, in meadows and dry, waste places, stems and leaves sometimes spotted red, flowers a vivid blue, grows best in chalky, gravelly soil. In rich soil plant grows coarse, flowers scanty and not so colorful.

Spacing of Mature Plants: From 12 to 18 inches.

Cultural Requirements: In light, sandy, well drained soil in sunny spot, except Italian Bugloss which prefers part shade and some moisture; in dividing plants in spring, be careful not to break the long, branching, brittle roots. Any roots left in the ground will develop a new plant.

Uses

Plant: (Health) Italian Bugloss, removes inflammation, cooling infusion induces perspiration; Common Alkanet, expectorant, aperient, induces perspiration.

Root: (Industrial) Dyer's Bugloss, red dye for staining wood imitation mahogany and rosewood, to color oil, furniture polish, spurious port wine, dental wax, pomade, leather, as acid-alkaline indicator by impregnating white paper called alkannin paper; (Health) Viper's Bugloss, astringent, blood purifier.
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