Senecio cacaliaster
StarSenecio cacaliaster
Synonyms: Solidago montana, Senecio obliquus, Senecio sarracenicus var. flosculosus, Senecio albodentatus, Senecio croaticus, Cacalia saracenica, Senecio cacaliaster var. radiatus
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
- Skin
Cautions & contraindications
- Liver conditions
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In older European folk medicine various Senecio species, including Senecio cacaliaster, were applied externally as wound herbs (vulneraries) to staunch bleeding and dress sores and cuts (historical European herbal usage; Wikipedia). Such use is largely obsolete: like other ragworts, the plant contains hepatotoxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids that make internal use hazardous, and modern herbal practice avoids it.
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Botanical Description
Senecio cacaliaster is an erect perennial herb of the daisy family, growing roughly 0.5-1.5 m tall, with stout, leafy, often unbranched stems. The leaves are alternate, large, elliptic to lance-shaped with sharply toothed margins, thin in texture, the lower ones narrowed into a winged stalk and the upper ones becoming sessile and clasping. The yellow flower heads are small and numerous, arranged in a broad, branched, flat-topped to rounded terminal cluster (corymb); each head is narrow with a few short ray florets or only disc florets, surrounded by a single row of green involucral bracts. The fruit is a small ribbed achene topped by a pappus of soft white bristles. Native to the mountains of central and southern Europe, it grows in damp montane meadows, woodland clearings, tall-herb communities and along streams.
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⚠ Rule-Based Cautions
These entries come from the deterministic rule tables that gate Verscienta's formula tools — classical pair prohibitions, pregnancy and lactation contraindications, dose ceilings, and drugs outside the Chinese Pharmacopoeia. The botanical-genus entries are different: advisory notes are not part of the safety screen; the Aristolochia genus check is.
From the botanical genus
Senecio includes species reported to contain hepatotoxic unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids; the content of this species or preparation is not verified here.
Pyrrolizidine-alkaloid genera — advisory note — recorded as Senecio cacaliaster. Botanical names: WCVP
- Roeder E. Medicinal plants in China containing pyrrolizidine alkaloids. Pharmazie 2000;55(10):711–726 — “The herb contains senecionine (50) and seneciphylline (56)”
- EMA/HMPC/893108/2011 Rev. 1 (2021), Public statement on the use of herbal medicinal products containing toxic, unsaturated pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) — “extracts of the PA-containing plants Petasites japonicum, Tussilago farfara, Symphytum officinale, Senecio longilobus, Senecio numorensis, Farfugium japonicum and Senecio cannabifolius”
This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before using any herbal remedy, especially if you are pregnant, nursing, or taking medications.
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