The dried rhizomes and roots of butcher's broom contain a mixture of various steroid saponins (such as the spirostanol saponins ruscin, ruscuside, aglyca and ruscogenin).
HMPC monograph: Traditional use: complaints associated with chronic venous insufficiency, complaints associated with haemorrhoids: burning, itching
ESCOP monograph: supportive for chronic venous insufficiency: aching, tired and heavy legs, tingling, swelling of the legs; for burning and pain in haemorrhoids
Commission E-monograph: complaints of chronic venous insufficiency, pain and heaviness in the legs, nocturnal calf cramps, itching, swelling, also for itching and burning in haemorrhoids
Empirical medicine: diuretic, diaphoretic, vascular stabilization in chronic venous insufficiency
external: skin diseases. externally as ointment preparations, as suppositories for hemorrhoids