Cleavers
Galium aparine L.
Hoffmann writes that cleavers is “a very valuable plant and is perhaps the best tonic to the lymphatic system available. As a lymphatic tonic with alterative and diuretic actions it may be used in a wide range of problems where the lymphatic system is involved. Thus it would be used in swollen glands (lymphadenitis) anywhere in the body and especially in tonsillitis and in adenoid trouble.”
- The Complete Illustrated Holistic Herbal
“A sedative remedy in acute inflammation or irritation of the urinary tract. Given in fever it impresses the temperature favorably, stimulates the excretion of all urinary constituents and the fever is shortened by its use. It is given for its general tonic influence upon the urinary tract. An infusion is the most active form. It is useful in dysuria if from acute inflammation, and it is an excellent remedy for suppression when nephritis has occurred from septic causes. It is useful in strangury in vesical irritation from uterine disorder and in the cystic and prostatic irritation of old men”.
- American Materia Medica
a.k.a.
barweed, bedstraw, burweed, catchweed, clivers, erriffe, everlasting friendship, goosebill, goose-grass, grip grass, hayriffe, hedgeheriff, love-man, mutton chops, robin-run-in-the-grass, scratweed, stickywilly