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Beyond adverse effects from the herb itself, "adulteration, inappropriate formulation, or lack of understanding of plant and drug interactions have led to adverse reactions that are sometimes life threatening or lethal." [3]
Scleranthus fasciculatus, commonly known as spreading knawel, is a rare, spreading, non-woody herb found in the south-eastern states of Australia and introduced to New Zealand. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The species is found in dry grassland habitats [ 1 ] and requires the maintenance of inter-tussock spaces for its establishment and persistence. [ 2 ]
Scleranthus, the knawels, are a genus of herbaceous plants in the family Caryophyllaceae. It includes 12 species native to Europe, Siberia, western Asia, north Africa, Ethiopia, New Guinea, and Australia.
Scleranthus biflorus is a cushion-bush found in Australia and New Zealand. Other common names include the knawel and two-flowered knawel or twin-flower knawel. [1] A common plant in grassland, particularly at higher altitudes. It may be in the form of a mat. Or a multi branched, spreading perennial herb.
Scleranthus annuus is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae known by the common names German knotweed and annual knawel. [1] It is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, and it is known throughout the rest of the temperate world as an introduced species and a common weed. It grows in many types of habitat, often in ...
Scleranthus perennis, the perennial knawel, [1] [2] is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It grows on sandy, dry, acidic soils. It can grow up to 15 cm high and has white flowers of 2–5 mm. The plant used to be economically significant as the major host plant of the Polish cochineal. Closeup of flowers
Scleranthus diander is a small, spreading, multi-stemmed perennial herb that forms a mat or with trailing stems and up to 30 cm (12 in) wide. The leaves are pale green, crowded, linear, triangular in cross-section, 5–9 mm (0.20–0.35 in) long, 0.2–0.7 mm (0.0079–0.0276 in) wide, smooth, more or less keeled and a pointed tip 0.2–0.9 mm (0.0079–0.0354 in) long.
Most drugs and procedures have a multitude of reported adverse side effects; the information leaflets provided with virtually all drugs list possible side effects. Beneficial side effects are less common; some examples, in many cases of side-effects that ultimately gained regulatory approval as intended effects, are: