Knotweed Plant: Unlocking Nature’s Hidden Health Benefits
The Greek physician and botanist of the first century, Dioscorides, highlighted the knotweed benefits for people who coughed up blood and women suffering from excessive menstruation. Due to its hemostatic effect (capable of stopping hemorrhages), the Romans called the plant sanguinaria (bloody), which lives on in many places. In the 19th century, when tuberculosis decimated…