This is a cute little plant that is easily missed if it is not in flower. The flower is either pink or white and close together on a squarish branching stem. It seems to love the chalk downlands so grows quite profusely on the South Downs as well as on the shingle beach.
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The whole herb is used which has Bitter properties.
All herbs with Bitter properties are excellent digestive system aids as they stimulate digestive juices to help breakdown the food entering the gut. This is why so many Aperitifs have bitter properties!
I use it in small amounts, as a tincture, to improve digestive function and to tone the gut up.
Linda Bostock
Medical Herbalist/Herbal Health Information
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