Centaurea scabiosa has been used in traditional herbal healing as either a vulnerary or an emollient.
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The buds of various balsam poplars have long been combined with a lard base to make the vulnerary ointment Balm of Gilead.
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In herbal medicine, parts of the plant may be used as a diuretic, purgative, and for vulnerary ( wound healing ) purposes.
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For example, " Parastrephia lucida " is used in the highlands of the Andes to relieve toothache, for bone fractures and bruises, and as a vulnerary.
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Colbatch became famous in London for his medicines : a " Vulnerary Powder ", with the power to stop bleeding without application of a tourniquet, and " Tincture of the Sulphur of Venus ", which speeded healing.
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It is also occasionally cultivated for medicinal purposes in the alternative medicine practice " ayurveda " : the leaves and bark are hot, acrid, bitter, insecticidal, vulnerary and useful in the treatment of biliousness, cough, burning sensation, thirst and inflammation; it also has the ability to treat skin diseases and leprosy.
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