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Herbal diuretics
Diuretic Plants
Examples of plants with diuretic drug action. Click on any to see more details of its contents and properties.
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Branched erect herb 30-60 cm tall, elliptic leaf, ovate, oblong, a bit dentated or entire, inflorescence 20 cm long, corolla 4-5 cm long...
Herbal diuretics - Basil
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Hairless, branched shrub, up to over 1 m in height, sometimes tomentose. The fruit is shaped berry, globose or ellipsoid, spicy and red when ripe, 5 to 10 mm long. Perennial plant is present almost all year...
Herbal diuretics - Chilli pepper
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Coffee is a shrub or small tree of 1-7 meters height. Opposite leaves, bright, mostly oblong, with prominent veins on both sides. Fragrant white flowers in tight clusters located in the leaf axils...
Herbal diuretics - Coffee
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Acaulescent herbaceous, vivacious, from the Compositae family, has a long tap-root, highly variable plant, perennial up to 40 cm high. The parts used are the leaves and the dried root harvested before flowering...
Herbal diuretics - Dandelion
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Annual, thorny and pubescent herb. With erect stalks, branched, thorny or unarmed stems, stellate, pubescent with ovate, pointed leaves. The part used is the fruit...
Herbal diuretics - Eggplant
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Garlic is an annual herb native to Central Asia but its widespread use as a condiment and medicinal properties, is cultivated in almost all continents.
Herbal diuretics - Garlic
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
The lemon is a small tree with irregular branches armed with thick spines, stiff and sharp. Leaves of 5 to 7.5 cm long. White flowers 2 cm long. Fruit round from 3 to 6 cm, greenish yellow, with plenty of acid pulp, small white seeds shaped oval...
Herbal diuretics - Lemon
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Mallow is a herbaceous biennial and perennial up to 1.5 m high. Its stem is very hairy and woody. The root is fusiform. The flowers are pink or purple with darker purple veins. The fruit, which is disc-shaped, decomposes after ripening...
Herbal diuretics - Mallow
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
The onion is a geophytewith spherical bulbsvarying size and color depending on the crop. Its leaves are lanceolate, with way of rods and white flowers clustered at the ends protruding on the rosette of leaves...
Herbal diuretics - Onion
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
High herb with fleshy leaves, hairy and angled stem used as a condiment and as an ornamental plant. It is native to tropical Asia...
Herbal diuretics - Oregano
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
biennial herb up to 80 cm long, hairless, with thin stems and triangular outline leaves two to three times pinnate, the upper leaves have entire leaflets and the basal ones serrated or toothed....
Herbal diuretics - Parsley
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
The pineapple is a plant of the family of Bromeleaceas. It has long leaves up to a meter, spiny and fleshy. The fruit is divided into sections with a crown that characterizes it...
Herbal diuretics - Pineapple
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Pot Marigold (Calendula officinalis)
The Calendula officinalis is an annual herbaceous plant 30-60 cm tall, simple leaves, sessile, mostly oblanceolate, hairy, chartaceous, initially grouped and subsequently arranged alternately along the stems that support in its ends the floral buds...
Herbal diuretics - Pot Marigold
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Pumpkin is an annual plant with short cycle grown commonly in the tropics between March and June. It is known from antiquity whose origins are lost in time...
Herbal diuretics - Pumpkin
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Thyme is a perennial shrub from to the Labiatae family that reaches about 15-30 cm tall. It´s bushy with small leaves shaped ovate to lanceolate, in these leaves there´re tiny hollows stuffed with a drop of essence...
Herbal diuretics - Thyme
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine
Herbaceous plant with a scaly bulb, big and white. It has a bulbous underground stem and another aerial herbaceous stem coated with leaves, few leaves are widespread and others erect, lanceolate shaped, and sparsely undulating in the edges...
Herbal diuretics - White lily
Plants that increase diuresis or secretion and discharge of urine