Celandine: health benefits and ingredients
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The celandine (Chelidonium majus) is a perennial plant of the poppy family (Papaveraceae), just like the large poppy. It is thanks to this family that the celandine has a very high content of alkaloids in its plant juice. These are substances that often have a certain physiological or pharmacological effect. The perennial is spread over the temperate climatic zones: these lie between the 30th and 60th latitude from Eurasia to North America. In the garden, the yellow-flowering celandine is mainly known as a weed. In folk medicine, the plant is used, among other things, to treat warts. The plant owes the first part of its name to the musty smell it gives off and 'celandine' stands for 'golden yellow', which refers to the striking sap that is released when the stem or root is broken.
What is celandine?
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Celandine is a deciduous perennial with a long flowering period. The plant with its serrated leaves and yellow flowers is a proven medicinal herb for warts and other skin complaints. The milky sap that can be found in the stems and leaves of celandine plays a major role in this. So it is more than a weed
Characteristics of celandine
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Is the greater celandine poisonous?
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Ingestion of celandine plant parts may cause severe irritation of the gastrointestinal tract. Typical symptoms that may occur are vomiting, pain, bloody diarrhea and circulatory disorders. In severe cases of poisoning, you can die from circulatory failure. Celandine supports the liver, but high doses can cause liver damage, such as cholestasis (a condition where bile cannot be excreted from the liver into the duodenum), liver failure and inflammation of the liver (hepatitis).
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Ingestion of celandine plant parts can cause severe irritation of the gastrointestinal tract. Typical symptoms that may occur are vomiting, pain, bloody diarrhea and circulatory disorders. In severe cases of poisoning, you can die from circulatory failure. Celandine supports the liver, but high doses can cause liver damage, such as cholestasis (a condition where bile cannot be excreted from the liver into the duodenum), liver failure and inflammation of the liver (hepatitis).