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Wild Lettuce
Common Name | Wild Lettuce |
Genus / Species | Lactuca virosa |
Part Used | Leaf |
Energetics | Bitter, cool, spicy |
Meridians | Liver, lung |
Active Constituents | Sesquiterpenes including lactucopicrin, lactucin Flavonoids Coumarins Triterpenes Alkaloid, hyoscyamine Potassium nitrate Polyacetylenes |
Medicinal Uses | Sedative Anodyne Insomnia Expectorant Oedema Amenorrhea |