{"id":779,"date":"2012-11-07T01:36:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T01:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=779"},"modified":"2012-11-11T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:15:00","slug":"borage-borago-officinalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"Borage ~ Borago officinalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Borago_officinalis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-887\" title=\"Borago_officinalis\" src=\"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Borago_officinalis-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Borage<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Borago officinalis<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Boraginaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: leaves<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: native toGreat Britain, Europe, N. Africa; naturalized inN. America<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: pyrrolizidine alkaloids (not therapeutic), choline, potassium, calcium, mineral acids (potassium nitrate)<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: cooling, salty<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: diuretic, demulcent, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: emollient, mild sedative, anti-depressant, adrenal tonic (Khalsa)<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: fever and feverish catarrhs<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: pulmonary disease, mouth and throat infections, cirrhosis, dry skin, chronic nephritis<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: infusion: 1oz leaves\/1 pt water; poultice: for inflammatory swellings; tincture: \u00c2\u00bd -1 drachm; gargle, powder in capsules 4 grams (Khalsa)<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: fresh leaves, due to pyrrolizidine alkaloid content (possible)<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: unknown (concern about pyrrolizidine alkaloid content is main issue)<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span>; http:\/\/www.botanical.com\/botanical\/mgmh\/b\/borage66.html; http:\/\/www.herbalists.on.ca\/resources\/freeman\/BORAGO.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borage Latin name: Borago officinalis Family: Boraginaceae Part used: leaves Habitat: native toGreat Britain, Europe, N. Africa; naturalized inN. America Main constituents: pyrrolizidine alkaloids (not therapeutic), choline, potassium, calcium, mineral acids (potassium nitrate) Energetics: cooling, salty Main herbal actions: diuretic, demulcent, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory Minor herbal actions: emollient, mild sedative, anti-depressant, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,37,33,95,41,36,1,32,202,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-inflammatory","category-cooling","category-demulcent","category-diaphoretic","category-diuretic","category-energetics-taste","category-module1","category-properties","category-salty","category-western-herbs","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}