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What is it?

The leaves of Cleavers, a straggling, short-lived plant that pushes itself through gaps in bushes and hedges and finds any piece of available earth to take a foothold on and then grow sticky leaves to catch a hold of any passerby in order to spread itself some more. Cleavers is not the most popular plant but it is certainly a survivor.

How has it been used?

Cleavers has an astonishingly powerful reputation for such an unprepossessing plant.

In the ancient world it was used to treat cancer. One of the founders of Roman medicine, Galen, described it as a cure for obesity writing 'it can make fat folk lean'. Cleavers is an old treatment for one of the toughest of all skin problems, psoriasis and it was even thought to be able to help dissolve small kidney stones.

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Personal experiences

Cleavers have the ability to get into hot spots of the body, places where the ‘chi’ or energy has become stuck and stagnant and get it to move. This is why it was so widely used for cancer and why it was believed to help fat people become lean!

When someone commits to using a course of Cleavers you see how deeply it moves congested 'blocks' in the body and the longer they use it the stronger it gets. I've seen Cleavers help people to transform their health and I have developed a deep respect for it, even on the same basis of how it grows as a plant, it's never wise to underestimate the scrappy little guy that gets places by dint of not being afraid of taking on things much bigger than itself!

To stimulate the healing process Cleavers combines perfectly with the other two great lymphatic cleansers of herbal medicine, Calendula and Poke Root. It also works with Red Clover to help clean the blood and for chronic skin problems.

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Excerpt from Felter & Lloyd's Kings Dispensatory from 1898

Cleavers is a most valuable diuretic, and will be found very beneficial in many diseases of the urinary organs, as suppression of urine, calculous affections, inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, and in the scalding of urine in gonorrhoea. Growth or deposits of a nodular character in the skin or mucous membranes are regarded as indications for its use. It has also been found useful in many cutaneous diseases, as psoriasis, eczema, lichen, cancer, and scrofula.

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