JOE-PYE-WEED
(Eupatorium purpureum)
sweet Joe-Pye weed, gravel root , queen-of-the-meadow, purple boneset
Description:
A tall, graceful plant with rigid, erect stem, 5-12 ft. tall,
purple above the joints, covered with elongated spots and lines.
Leaves, oblong, pointed, rough above, downy beneath, in whorls
of 4-5 on the stem. Margins are coarsely and unequally toothed,
stalks, either short or merely represented by the contracted base
of leaves. Purple flowers, in dense terminal inflorescence, heads
very numerous. Eastern U.S., in low, swampy ground.
Medicinal:
Diuretic, nervine. Leaf and root tea is prepared for a valuable
remedy in edema, painful urination, gravel, gout, rheumatism,
chronic renal and cystic troubles, colds, chills, fevers, diarrhea,
liver and kidney problems. The popular name of Jopi or Joe-pye
is taken from an American Indian who introduced sweating, for
typus fever.
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