I have Joe Pye Weed growing in the Star Garden. It is interplanted with Cleome, Stone Crop, and Verbena Bonariensis.
The Joe-Pye Weed was named after a Native American doctor named Joe Pye who used it medicinally. The medicine man taught early settlers how to use it.
As a medicinal herb, the root is the "official" part, with a fragrance that resembles old hay. It is a good remedy for gravel in the gallbladder - it dissolves stones. It has been used for chronic urinary and kidney disorders, bed wetting, poor appetite, dropsy, neuralgia, rheumatism. It is very soothing and will relax the nerves. Joe Pye increases the flow of urine. It is good for female troubles, bladder and kidney infections, diabetes, and Bright’s disease.
It is also used for headache, hysteria, impotence, indigestion, intermittent fever, sciatica, sore throat, urine retention, vomiting, asthma, chronic coughs, colds, typhus fever.
It is also used for headache, hysteria, impotence, indigestion, intermittent fever, sciatica, sore throat, urine retention, vomiting, asthma, chronic coughs, colds, typhus fever.
And it blooms pretty flowers! The flowers haven't begin to bloom yet, but they are quite lovely.
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