Mandrake

Other names: Hog apple, may apple, american mandrake, indian apple, duck’s foot, ground lemon, wild lemon, racoon berry 

Scientific name:  Podophyllum peltatum

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Arabic names:    اليبروج (al yabrooj)

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Family: Fabaceae

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Common parts used: Root

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Annual/Perennial: Perennial

Height: Upto 2 feet

Actions:  Alterative, antibilious, cathartic, cholagogue, diaphoretic, emetic, resolvant, vermifuge

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Traditional Use:

A well known herb often used for the liver.  Jethro Kloss described it as “in chronic liver diseases it has no equal.”  He often combined it with Senna leaves. He used it as a cathartic and uterine tonic.1

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