{"id":973,"date":"2012-11-14T15:58:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T15:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=973"},"modified":"2013-03-24T18:40:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T18:40:57","slug":"eyebright-euphrasia-officinalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"Eyebright &#8212;  Euphrasia officinalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Eyebright<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Latin name<\/em>: Euphrasia officinalis<\/p>\n<p><em>Family<\/em>: Scrophulariaceae<\/p>\n<p><em>Part used<\/em>: Aerial parts<\/p>\n<p><em>Habitat<\/em>: meadows in Britain and Europe<\/p>\n<p><em>Main constituents<\/em>: iridoid glycosides (aucuboside), tannins (aucubin), phenolic acids, volatile oil<\/p>\n<p><em>Energetics<\/em>: bitter, sweet, drying<\/p>\n<p><em>Main herbal actions<\/em>: astringent, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, expectorant, decongestant<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor herbal actions<\/em>: tonic<\/p>\n<p><em>Main medicinal uses<\/em>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">cold and flu<\/span>, sinus and nasal congestion, congestive conditions of the eyes, external and internal conjunctivitis,<\/p>\n<p><em>Minor medicinal uses<\/em>: allergies<\/p>\n<p><em>Preparations<\/em>: infusion: 1-2 tsp\/cup water, 30- 60 grams, dry herb weight (Khalsa); 1:4 tincture: 10-60 gtt qd-qid; can also use as a lotion around the eye<\/p>\n<p><em>Contraindications<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Toxicity<\/em>: unknown<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources<\/em>: Sharol Tilgner, N.D.: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Herbal Medicine from the Heart of the Earth<\/span>; Wren, R.C. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Potter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Module 2 reading<\/span><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>Eyebright is one herb whose folkloric reputation outstrips its actual usefulness. Despite its name and its history of use for the eyes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not very effective, and there are certainly substances that produce more significant and consistent results. Eyebright is better as an upper respiratory tea than it is as an eye tonic. Dr. Dever and many other colleagues concur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eyebright Latin name: Euphrasia officinalis Family: Scrophulariaceae Part used: Aerial parts Habitat: meadows in Britain and Europe Main constituents: iridoid glycosides (aucuboside), tannins (aucubin), phenolic acids, volatile oil Energetics: bitter, sweet, drying Main herbal actions: astringent, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, expectorant, decongestant Minor herbal actions: tonic Main medicinal uses: cold and flu, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,94,81,39,129,38,71,1,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-inflammatory","category-antiseptic","category-astringent","category-bitter","category-decongestant","category-drying","category-expectorant","category-module1","category-sweet","column","threecol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1857,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/1857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herbalpedia.info\/PCC\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}