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Yellow Bedstraw

Galium verum

Bed: "Other organs"

Toxicity:

Longevity: unknown

History

Since antiquity used for, among other things, for burn wounds and as a styptic. A legend says that the Virgin Mary laid the baby Jesus on a bed of Lady’s Bedstraw, hence the name. One used to lay the plant in children’s beds to protect them against witchcraft and sorcery.