False
Unicorn
Chamaelirium Luteum
 False Unicorn comes to us from the North American Indians; they used
it for a variety of female health problems including the prevention
of miscarriage, infertility, easing of morning sickness, and
menopause symptoms. Eclectic physicians * during the late 1700’s and
1800’s used False Unicorn to treat strangury (slow, painful,
spasmodic urination), jaundice, atonic dyspepsia and nephritis
associated with depression. A Thomsonian practitioner, Dr. Sweet in
Connecticut 1826, put together a combination of herbs known as
Mother O’s Cordial, using water and alcohol extractions. The
preparation, which is still used today, contains 4 parts Partridge
berry (Mitchella repens), to one part each of False Unicorn root,
Blue Cohosh (Caulophyllum thalictroides), and Cramp bark (Viburnum
opulus).
In diseases of the reproductive organs of females, and especially of
the uterus, False Unicorn is one of our most valuable agents, acting
as a uterine tonic, and gradually removing abnormal conditions,
while at the same time it imparts tone and vigor to the reproductive
organs. It has been useful in
treating uterine problems in non-pregnant
women to help normalize delayed or absent menstruation (amenorrhea).
It
can be especially helpful in painful menstruation where there is a
“heavy dragging feeling in the lower abdomen or a feeling of
heaviness and congestive pressure in the pelvis with the sensation
that the pelvic organs are falling out.” This herb stimulates
ovarian hormones and can be helpful for early menopause, after a
hysterectomy or to help the system become normalized after years of
contraceptive use.
In the Kings Dispensatory, late 1800’s, “I have found this plant to
possess a decidedly beneficial influence in cases of sexual
lassitude in both sexes, and of nocturnal emissions, the result of
excesses, especially in those instances where there are symptoms of
gastric derangement with impaired memory, mental apathy, or
indifference, and an enfeebled condition of the general system, with
weakness or dull pain in the renal, or lumbo-sacral region.” It can
be used by men for impotency and prostate problems.
Mid wives have used False Unicorn to strengthen the uterus of
pregnant women and thereby prevent miscarriage, and overcome the
tendency to abort. False Unicorn is generally only used for
problems existing during pregnancy and is generally not used when
pregnancy is normal and healthy.
Uses:
Appetite (loss of), Colic, Digestive Problems, Dyspepsia, Edema,
hemorrhage, Impotence, Infertility, Kidneys, Menstrual
Irregularities, Miscarriage (prevents), Morning Sickness, Nausea,
Nocturnal Emissions, Parasites, Prostate, Sterility, tape Worm,
Uterus (prolapsed), Vaginal Discharge, Worms
*Eclectic
physicians
were those who when this country was first explored diligently
studied American flora and the
medicinal uses of these plants by the Native Americans. Some of
these Doctors lived for years among the American tribes gathering
this rich herbal information and their healing philosophy for
posterity. One of these was Dr. Constantine Rafinesque who coined
the word “eclectic” to refer to those physicians who adopted
whatever was found to be beneficial to their patients.
Sources:
Little Herb Encyclopedia, by Jack Ritchason; N.D., Woodland Publishing Incorporated, 1995
The Ultimate Healing System, Course Manual, Copyright 1985, Don Lepore
Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, by James A. Duke, Pub. CRP Second Edition 2007
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