Saponaria officinalis.   Soapwort   Family: Caryophyllaceae   
PART USED: Herb. Also root.
TASTE: Bitter, acrid  ODORLESS
ACTIONS
1. Alterative.[1]
2. Detergent.[1]
INDICATIONS- Used in the past to produce a head on beers.
1. Skin diseases.[1]

ORIGIN: Wild in Europe and cultivated as a garden plant.
DESCRIPTION: A rather straggling, hairless perennial. Leaves opposite, entire, lanceolate. Flowers soft pink, five-petalled, with a long calyx tube.
References
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Constituents
Research

Phytochemistry and pharmacological activities of Saponaria officinalis L.: A review pdf

Phytochemical analysis of Saponaria officinalis L. shoots and flowers essential oils
Goran M Petrovic, Marija D Ilic, Vesna P Stankov-Jovanovic, Gordana S Stojanovic, Snežana C Jovanovic
Abstract
Phytochemical analysis by GC and GC/MS of the essential oil samples obtained from fresh shoots and flowers of Saponaria officinalis L. allowed the identification of 96 components in total, comprising 94.7% and 86.0% of the total oils compositions, respectively. Regarding the shoots essential oil, the major of 87 identified volatile compounds were phytol (14.1%), tricosane-6,8-dione (13.4%), patchouli alcohol (7.9%) and tricosane (7.2%), whereas patchouli alcohol (20.0%), heneicosane (11.5%) and tricosane (8.4%) were dominant among the 66 volatiles in the flower oil. Nonterpenoid compounds had the highest contribution in S. officinalis shoots essential oil (53.7%), while in the flower oil, constituents were almost evenly distributed between the oxygenated sesquiterpenoid (41.2%) and nonterpenoid compounds (39.5%).
Nat Prod Res 2018 Feb;32(3):331-334. doi: 10.1080/14786419.2017.1350668. Epub 2017 Jul 12. PMID: 28697622 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov