Eupatorium Cannabinum – Dutch Agrimony

The mother tincture is prepared from the fresh flowering plant, Eupatorium cannabinum L., a native of Europe. N.O. Compositae.

Eupatorium Cannabinum is used as a folk-remedy for the cleansing of the blood in diseases of the liver, bile and spleen. It contains a bitter substance, the glycoside Eu- patorin, also resins and tannins. It is also used as a fever-remedy: “it makes fever bearable”.

It is mainly used together with other single remedies suitable for particular syn- dromes, or in combination-remedies.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Eupatorium cannabinum, pub-

lished the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for eupatorium cannabinum: parainfluenzal feverish diseases.