| No | 41 |
| Common Name: | Self-heal |
| Scientific Name: | Prunella vulgaris |
| Irish Name: | Duán ceannchosach/ Ceannbhán beag |
| Family: | Lamiaceae |
| Habitat: | Selfheal is tolerant of poor soils and grows in meadows, hedgerows and ditches, wasteland, paths etc |
| Uses: | Medicinal – In the seventeenth century Nicholas Culpeper wrote of it as a wound herb ‘whereby when you are hurt you may heal yourself’. It is now known to have anti-allergenic constituents and to act as an anti-inflammatory agent . |
Self Heal
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