Barcode: CAL0000013683

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Family: ASTERACEAE

Scientific Name: Erigeron canadensis L.

Collector: N.P. Balakrishnan

Country: India

Uses: Plants are used as a stringent, stimulant, hemostatic, and diuretic used in diarrhoea and dysentery, uterine haemorrhages, dropsy, gravel, and renal infections; also used for ringworm and eczema. Plants yields an oil, Oleum Erigerontis or Oil of Fleabane, used in diarrhoea, dysentery and internal haemorrhages.