Alexanders
Synonyms:Alexanders, Alisanders and Black Pot-herb.
Parts Used: The herb.
It warms a cold stomach and opens stoppage to the liver and spleen. It is also called Horse Parsley, Wild Parsley and the Black Pot-herb. Similar to Wild Angelica, it is sometimes mistaken for it by collectors. It is a biennial growing to about four feet (1.2 m) high and producing yellowish- green flowers.
Medicinal virtues
It is good to move women’s courses, to expel the afterbirth, to break wind, to provoke urine, and it helps strangury. The seeds will also do likewise. Boiled in wine or bruised and taken in wine the herb or seeds are effectual in the biting of serpents.
