What is a Bloodroot?
What is the use of bloodroot?
It is thought to have antiseptic, diuretic, and emetic properties and is used to reduce inflammation, cough, infections, and as an anti-plaque agent. Bloodroot is also an ingredient in black salve, which is promoted as an alternative cancer treatment.
Where Can I Find Bloodroot In South Africa?
What are some interesting facts about bloodroot?
Interesting Facts
Bloodroot is so named because a damaged root will ooze a red sap. The red sap was used by First Nations People as a dye and insect repellent.
CAUTION: The sap is an irritant, and the rhizome (thickened underground root) is poisonous and should not be eaten.
How do you identify bloodroot?
Bloodroot is a stemless perennial wildflower with a fleshy, horizontal, fingerlike tuber with reddish-orange juice.
The tuber sends up a flower stalk wrapped by a single palmate, deeply scalloped, grayish-green basal leaf. The leaf unfurls when the solitary flower blooms.