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Wintergreen Leaf

This is a native North American evergreen shrub which grows in woods and clearings from Newfoundland to Manitoba and south to Georgia, Michigan, and Indiana. The creeping stems send up erect branches, 2 to 6 inches high, which bear alternate, oval, leathery leaves with serrate (and sometimes bristly) margins. Both the leaves and the solitary nodding, white flowers grow near the tops of the branches. Flowering time is from May to September. The fruit is a scarlet, berrylike capsule about 1/3 inch across.

	2 oz	4 oz	8 oz	1 lb
Wintergreen Leaf c/s	$2.00	$2.80	$5.00	$8.40
Wintergreen Leaf Powder	$4.42	$7.60	$13.39	$20.92

Properties/Uses - Analgesic, astringent, carminative, diuretic, stimulant. These leaves have long been used for headache and other aches and pains, inflammations, and rheumatism. They have also been recommended for urinary ailments and for colic and flatulence. Externally, a leaf tea can be used as a gargle for sore mouth and throat, as a douche for leucorrhea, and as a compress or poultice for skin diseases and inflammations.

Botanical Name - Gaultheria procumbens

Part Used - Leaf

Common Names/Synonyms - Canada tea, checkerberry, deerberry, ground berry, hillberry, mountain tea, partridge berry, spiceberry, spicy wintergreen, spring wintergreen, wax cluster.

Cautions - No side effects or contraindications with normal use.

Wintergreen Leaf in larger sizes


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