Ageratina glabrata
StarAgeratina glabrata
Synonyms: Eupatorium piperitum, Eupatorium gonocladum, Eupatorium modestum, Ageratina modesta, Eupatorium glabratum, Eupatorium xalapense
Safety at a glance
No rule in our tables for this herb: pregnancy, breastfeeding, incompatible pairs (十八反 / 十九畏), herb–drug, dose ceiling. This is not a safety clearance.
Not graded — No toxicity grade is recorded. Most herbs in the catalogue carry none.
Traditionally used for
- Digestion
- Bowel health
- Menstrual & women's health
- Pain & joints
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In Mexican traditional medicine Ageratina glabrata, known locally as 'chamizo blanco' and 'hierba del golpe', is used as an external analgesic for pain and bruises, for stomach pain and gastrointestinal disorders, and in postpartum baths, the leaves, roots and aerial parts being employed (Bautista-Hernandez et al., 2018). Pharmacological work supports an analgesic effect of leaf extracts and has isolated antidiarrhoeal thymol derivatives from the species (Sosa-Ortiz et al., 2018).
Botanical Description
Ageratina glabrata is a shrub of the daisy family endemic to Mexico and widely distributed through its mountains, formerly placed in Eupatorium. It is a branching, woody-based shrub with opposite, ovate, toothed leaves that are smooth (glabrate) and gland-dotted, aromatic when crushed. The small flower heads lack ray florets, each containing only white tubular disc florets, and are grouped into dense, branched, flat-topped clusters at the branch tips. The fruit is a small, angled, black achene bearing a pappus of fine white bristles. It grows on slopes, in pine-oak woodland and along disturbed montane ground. Like other Ageratina, the plant may contain the toxin tremetol and related compounds, making the foliage potentially poisonous to livestock and a hazard if ingested in quantity.
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