{"id":1953,"date":"2012-03-03T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T16:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1953"},"modified":"2012-09-01T01:25:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T08:25:39","slug":"elephant-ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/elephant-ears\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Ears Bergenia Homeopathic Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1954\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/elephant-ears\/attachment\/elephants-ears\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1954\" title=\"elephants-ears\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/elephants-ears.jpg\" alt=\"elephants-ears\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/elephants-ears.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/elephants-ears-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bergenia or &#8216;Elephant Ears&#8217; is a popular &#8216;weed-smothering&#8217; ground cover plant.<br \/>\nThe mainly evergreen, shiny leaves of Bergenia ciliata can turn red in a frost.<br \/>\nBergenia Purpurea or Purpurascens are often grown in shade from shallow rooting rhizomes. The leaves can be in excess of 10&#8243; across and resemble Elephant Ears hence the nickname.<br \/>\nMost varieties produce pink spike of flowers and many have interesting crinkles to the leaf edges.<\/p>\n<h3>Homeopathic Bergenia Medicine<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> A juice or powder of the whole plant is said to be used to treat urinary troubles.<\/li>\n<li>The juice of the leaves is used as drops to relieve earaches.<\/li>\n<li>The root is used as a tonic in the treatment of fevers, diarrhea and pulmonary affections<\/li>\n<li> The root juice is used to treat coughs and colds, hemorrhoids, asthma and urinary problems.<\/li>\n<li>Externally, the root is bruised and applied as a poultice to boils and ophthalmia, it is also considered helpful in relieving backache.<\/li>\n<li>The root of this plant has a high reputation in indigenous systems of medicine for dissolving stones in the kidneys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Always seek medical advice before using mixes of Bergenia medicine<\/p>\n<h3>Grow your own drugs<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0007307136\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0007307136.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bergenia or &#8216;Elephant Ears&#8217; is a popular &#8216;weed-smothering&#8217; ground cover plant. The mainly evergreen, shiny leaves of Bergenia ciliata can turn red in a frost. Bergenia Purpurea or Purpurascens are often grown in shade from shallow rooting rhizomes. The leaves can be in excess of 10&#8243; across and resemble Elephant Ears hence the nickname. Most varieties produce pink spike of flowers and many have interesting crinkles to the leaf edges. Homeopathic Bergenia Medicine A juice or powder of the whole&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/elephant-ears\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}