Spicy smelling herb of the limb herb, no pharmacopoeial quality description.
HMPC monograph: Traditional-use: Cold-related cough and mild gastrointestinal complaints.
ESCOP: not processed.
Commission E: no monograph
Traditional medicine: tonic, diaphoretic (Püringer tea), relaxing and mood improving.
Research results speak for a preventive treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, e.g. Alzheimer's disease, depression, ADHD, clinical studies on humans are to be awaited.