NOUN
- tall herb of eastern North America and Asia having blue berrylike fruit and a thick knotty rootstock formerly used medicinally
How To Use blue cohosh In A Sentence
- Take blue cohosh root, four ounces; lady's-slipper root and spikenard root, of each one ounce; sassafras bark (of root) and clover, of each half an ounce. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources
- Uterine-stimulating herbs, such as black cohosh, blue cohosh, achyranthes root, goldenseal, motherwort, wild ginger, and red raspberry leaf, have been used to induce labor.
- Black cohosh should not be confused with the blue cohosh herb (also known as Caulophyllum thalictroides), which is used for different indications and has a greater potential for toxicity.
- This also is true of many herbal tablets, capsules and extracts, including black or blue cohosh, ephedra, dong quai, feverfew, juniper, pennyroyal, St. John's wort, rosemary and thuja.
- You should take dietary supplements like folic acid before and during pregnancy but avoid some herbal supplements (like blue cohosh in the firs two trimesters).
- Take blue cohosh root, four ounces; lady's-slipper root and spikenard root, of each one ounce; sassafras bark (of root) and clover, of each half an ounce. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources