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 MARIA TREBEN

LADY'S MANTLE

Scientific name: Alchemilla vulgaris

Common names: Lion's Foot, Bear's Foot, Nine Hooks and Dew Cup

The action of Lady's Mantle is astringent and very rapid healing, and it is used also as a diuretic and heart strengthening remedy for wound-fever, for festering wounds and neglected sores.

After removal of teeth, Lady's Mantle tea is recommended as one of the best remedies. Within a day the wounds heal after several rinses. It relieves weakness of muscles and limbs and helps in anemia. For injuries after delivery, debility of the abdomen of women who have difficult confinements or are inclined to miscarry, for strengthening of the fetus and uterus, Lady's Mantle is of great help. Women so affected should start drinking Lady's Mantle tea after the third month. It is a cure-all for all female disorders and, together with Shepherd's Purse, even helps in prolapse of the uterus and in hernia.

For the last named cases, use four cups of Lady's Mantle tea and sip throughout the day. 

A quotation from an old herbal says: "When one is ill, whether young or old, let two handfuls of Lady's Mantle in a measure of water boil for as long as it takes to hard boil an egg, and drink it."

In today's herbal medicine the plant has again its proper place. The Swiss Abbe Kuenzle stresses its merits: "Through early and prolonged application of this medicinal herb, two thirds of all operations performed on women would be quite unnecessary, since it heals all inflammations of the abdomen, fever, burning, suppuration, ulcers and hernia. Every woman in childbirth should drink much of this tea. Many children would still have their mothers, some stricken widowers their wives, had they  known this herb.
Crushed and applied externally, Lady's Mantle heals wounds, stings and cuts.

This valuable medicinal herb is used for multiple sclerosis as well. I have been told by people from Burgenland (Austria) that, if Lady's Mantle tea is drunk and used externally to wash the heart region, it brings a marked relief in disorders of the cardiac muscle.

DIRECTIONS:

Infusion: 1/4 liter of boiling water is poured over a heaped teaspoon of herbs, infused for a short time.
Herb application: A suitable amount of fresh herbs is washed and crushed on a wooden board with a wooden rolling pin and applied.
Bath: For a full bath, 200 gm. of dried or a few double handfuls of fresh herbs are soaked in a bucketful of cold water overnight, warmed the next morning and the liquid added to the bath water.