Plants and their European monographs
- Burdock — Arctium lappa L., root
European Medicines Agency monograph (EMA/HMPC/246763/2009): traditional use for increasing urine volume in minor urinary complaints, for temporary loss of appetite and for seborrheic skin conditions.
From “Before You Begin”
The book’s safety page, quoted as it stands. Read the whole page — it is free.
- Seven recipes are remedies, taken on a course. Nothing is gained by drinking them for pleasure.
- Burdock root, Chapter 36, is not recommended alongside prescribed diuretics.
- Pregnancy. Twenty-six of the twenty-eight recipes here are restricted in pregnancy — most because safety has not been established rather than because harm has been shown, but the answer is the same either way. The two that carry no restriction are the rosehip brew of Chapter 26 and the sea buckthorn of Chapter 28, both of them fruits eaten as food across Europe.
The recipe is in the book
Chapter 36 gives the rest:
- the amounts and the steps
- what each plant does in the cup, and on what basis
- who should not drink it, from what age
- how much, and for how long