Chamber Bitter Tincture

All parts of Chamber Bitter plants are used in traditional and indigenous medicine.  The folk names for this plant, stonebreaker and shatterstone, and the plant’s scientific name P. urinaria point to its use with the urinary tract system, especially its ability to break up kidney stones.8 Constituents in the plant have been shown to inhibit the formation of the calcium oxalate crystals that make up most kidney stones.9 Other genitourinary system benefits noted in the Indian Ayurvedic system of medicine (particularly of P. amarus) are its uses to treat gonorrhea, menorrhagia, and other genital affections. 10 In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), a decoction of the whole plant is used to treat jaundice, enteritis, diarrhea, and dropsy. In China and Taiwan, traditional practitioners use the plant to treat Hepatitis B. There are also noted cases of the plant being used to treat dysentery, diabetes, and malaria.11 (anti-parasitic) Studies have indicated that Chamberbitter, prepared as a de