Packera aurea. formerly Senecio aureus   Life root plant, Golden senecio, Squaw weed   Family: Asteraceae     
PART USED: Rhizome, herb
TASTE: Bitter and astringent ODOR: Faint, slightly acrid
ACTIONS
1. Uterine tonic.[1,2] Emmenagogue.[2]
2. Diuretic.[1,2]
3. Expectorant- mild.[1] Pectoral.[2]
4. Astringent.[2]
INDICATIONS
1. Functional amenorrhea.[1,2] Menopausal neurosis.[1] Menopausal symptoms.[2]
2. Emotional and vascular instability- including hot flushes, associated with menopause.
Local- Leukorrhea, as douche.[1]
SPECIFIC INDICATIONS: Emotional and vascular instability, including hot flushes associated with menopause.[1]
COMBINATIONS
PREPARATIONS   3X /day Only samples with alkaloids absent should be taken internally.[2]
Dried herb 1-4 g or by infusion.[1]
Powder 2-4 g.[2]
Liquid extract 1:1 in 25% alcohol  1-4 ml.[1] 2-4 ml.[2]
ORIGIN: Europe, inlcuding Britain, North America.
DESCRIPTION:  Stem; dark bown. Leaves; pinnatifid, dark green on upper and light green on lower surface, with a long petiole. Rhizome; 2-5 cm long, with numerous roots; the root bark being hard and blackish surrounding a ring of whitish woody bundles and a large, dark, central pith. Flowerheads few, in a loose corymb, up to about 2.5 cm broad, with yellow pistillate ray florets and hermaphrodite central tubular florets.
References
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Constituents