Lady’s Mantle

Western Bulk Herbs – Lady’s Mantle

Lady’s mantle is used to treat sudden infections of the mouth and throat. You can bath cuts, scrapes, and burns to prevent infection. Lady’s mantle tea has also been used to treat heavy menstruation, menstrual cramps, and symptoms of menopause. Most modern herbalists recommend lady’s mantle as a treatment for diabetes, but it hasn’t been proven to work, yet. It may help prevent circulatory problems in diabetics.

Latin Name:
Alchemilla vulgaris

Common Names:
Lion’s foot, Bear’s foot, Dewcup, Hairy Mantle, and Nine Hooks.

Parts Used:
The dried above-ground parts of the plant.

Properties:
The Lady’s Mantle has astringent and styptic properties, on account of the tannin it contains.

Traditional Uses:
Teas, extracts, and sometimes capsules.

Culinary Uses:
Not used in cooking.

Chemical Properties:
Tannins and flavonoids, chiefly quercetin.

Cautions:
GRAS: Generally Recognized as Safe: This herb can be safely consumed when used appropriately.

Folk Lore:
Culpepper says of Lady’s Mantle: ‘Lady’s Mantle is very proper for inflamed wounds and to stay bleeding, vomitings, fluxes of all sorts, bruises by falls and ruptures. It is one of the most singular wound herbs and therefore highly prized and praised, used in all wounds inward and outward, to drink a decoction thereof and wash the wounds therewith, or dip tents therein and put them into the wounds which wonderfully drieth up all humidity of the sores and abateth all inflammations thereof. It quickly healeth green wounds, not suffering any corruption to remain behind and cureth old sores, though fistulous and hollow.’

*Disclaimer: These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Resources:
PDR for Herbal Medicines, 2000. Medical Economics Company, Montvale, New Jersey.

The New Holistic Herbal. David Hoffmann, 1990. Barnes and Noble Books, New York.

A Modern Herbal, Mrs. M. Grieve, (Dover Publications, New York, 1971)

Major Herbs of Ayurvedic.Compiled by Dahur Research Foundation and Dahur Ayurvet Limited, Ghaziabad, India., 2002. Churchill Livingstone, London, England.

Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica, Third Edition, Dan Bensky and Andrew Gamble, 1986. Eastland Press, Seattle, WA.