BUTTERBUR ROOT POWDER
Product No. P0221
Also known as Petasites hybridus, Lagwort, Plague-flower, Butterdock, Butterfly Dock, Butter-dock, Bog Rhubarb, Flapperdock, Umbrella leaves, and Bogshorns.
The plant is native to the wet, marshy lands of Europe and Northern Asia. One variety also is native to North America. The root (rhizome) is used medicinally. Butter bur root contains pyrrolizidine type alkaloids, mainly senecionine and integerrimine; flavonoids, including quercetin, astragalan and isoquercitrin; petasin, neopetasin; tannins; mucilage; volatile oil; sesquiterpene.
Butterbur root has been used medicinally since at least the Middle Ages, when it was suggested as one of the few cures for the plague. During Colonial times, housewives often used the enormous leaves to wrap around butter to keep it cool and fresh.
Traditionally, butterbur has been used to treat fever, wheezing and colds, as an antispasmodic to help ease menstrual cramping, as a heart stimulant, and as a treatment for the plague. There is also history of its use to treat kidney/urinary tract stones. Modern research suggests that butterbur root extract may be useful in treating the symptoms of seasonal rhinitis (allergies) and prevent migraines.
Early studies on the use of butterbur for easing the symptoms of seasonal allergies show promising results, as do studies on it's effectiveness on the symptoms of asthma. In at least one study, people who reported a history of migraines had significantly fewer migraines than a control group given a placebo, and those migraines that they did get were shorter and less severe. In Germany, butterbur extract is approved for the treatment of spasmodic urinary pain, particularly when there are stones present.
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