This is one of the plants certified organic for the first time in history by Mandala Chocolate.It has been loved and utilized traditionally by native peoples for untold generations who ate it as a vegetable crop, a salad green and utilized it as a multipurpose medicine. Its uses included stomachaches, diarrhea, anemia and heart trouble and made a poultice for swellings, tumors and sore muscles. As a nervine and non-narcotic muscle relaxer pedicularis is regaining the attention it deserves. It can help relieve pain in muscles when applied topically or taken as a tincture.
Common Lousewort Care
Pedicularis Canadensis



What is the plant
How to Care for the Plant

Water

It prefers moist soil.

Sunlight

Requires a partially shaded to sunny site in a well-drained gritty but moist soil

Soil

Suitable for: light (sandy) and medium (loamy) soils and prefers well-drained soil. Suitable pH: acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils.
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Additional

The plant is said to be poisonous to sheep

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