Botanical Profile

Poke Root

phytolacca americana

Medicinal Actions

Alterative, Analgesic, Antialzheimeran, Antiarthritic, Anticancer, Anticatarrhal, Antiedemic, Antiexudative, Antigranuloma, Anti-HIV, Antiinflammatory, Antileukemic, Antimelanomic, Antirheumatic, Antiviral, Depurative, Digestive, Emetic, Expectorant, Fungicide, Hematinic, Hepatoprotective, Immunostimulant, Laxative, Lymphatic, Mitogenic, Molluscicide, Narcotic, Parasiticide, Sedative, Stimulant, Thymolytic

Conditions Treated

Abortifacient Nervine Poison Sternutator Taenifuge Acne Adenopathy Alzheimer’s Angina Aphtha Arthrosis Blackhead Bleeding Boil Bruise Bunion Burn Cancer breast face lip nose skin uterus Carbuncle Cardiopathy Catarrh Conjunctivosis Constipation Dermatosis Diphtheria Dyscrasia Dysentery Dyslactea Dysmenorrhea Dyspepsia Eczema Edema Fever Fibroid Flu Fungus Headache Hemorrhoid Hepatosis Herpes HIV Immunodepression Infection Inflammation Insomnia Ischiosis Itch Laryngosis Leukemia Lumbago Lymphadenosis Marasmus Mastosis Melanoma Metastasis Mucososis Mumps Mycosis Nephrosis Nervousness Neuralgia Obesity Oliguria Ophthalmia Orchosis Otosis Ovarosis Ozoena Pain Parasite Parotosis Pharyngosis Poison Ivy Polio Psoriasis Pulmonosis Respirosis Rheumatism Rhinosis Ringworm Scabies Scrofula Snakebite Sore Sore Throat Splenosis Sprain Stomatosis Swelling Sycosis Syphilis Tapeworm Tinea Tonsilosis Tracheosis Tuberculosis Tumor Ulcer Uterosis VD Virus Wart Worm Wound