Barcode: CAL0000009309

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Family: ASTERACEAE

Scientific Name: Solidago virgaurea L.

Collector: S.N. Bal

Country: India

Uses: It is diuretic, lithontriptic, vulnerary, sudorific, and carminative. It is used in treatment of uremic asthma, whooping cough, internal lesions, dropsy, and chronic eczema.It is also used in acute and chronic nephritis and oedema of renal nature with history of dystrophy. In powder form the herb is used for cicatrization of old ulcers. Dried and powdered roots are used in treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery. Quercetin in the plant accounts for the v