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WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.

Physician's Materia Medica on Couch-grass (triticum)

COUCH-GRASS (Triticum)
   The creeping rhizome of AGROPYRUM REPENS, (L.) Beauv. Emollient diuretic, resembling corn-silk in action. Useful in sub acute and chronic inflammations of the urinary tract.1


References

1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.