Water bugle, sweet bugle, Virginian water horehound, and gypsy weed.
Bugle weed contains flavone glycosides, volatile oils, and tannins.
Native to the Northern Hemisphere, worldwide. Species of bugle weed are found in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Bugle weed preparations may interfere with the use of radioactive isotopes used in some diagnostic procedures.
Bear's weed, consumptive's weed, gum bush, and mountain balm.
Bugle weed has shining, ovalshaped leaves, produces tubular flowers of cobalt blue, growing along the erect spikes that rise from the dense foliage along the ground. Many different varieties.
Anxiety, coughs, tuberculosis, arrhythmia, hyperthyroidism, bruises.
Indian tobacco, wild tobacco, pukeweed, emetic weed, asthma weed and gag-root.
All parts of the bugle weed that grow above ground are used in herbal medicine. It is collected in early spring before the flower buds open. The entire plant is dried and pulverized.
dig it out , make a big hole, then fill it with flamibles and set aflame.
Polar plant, compass-weed, or compass plant.
Astringent, has sedative qualities, diuretic properties, inhibits the body's metabolism of iodine.
Common artemisia, felon herb, St. John's herb, chrysanthemum weed, sailor's tobacco, and moxa.