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Health Benefits of Blue Cohosh

Medically Reviewed by The Medindia Medical Review Team on Nov 04, 2014


Health Benefits

The list of the various health benefits accorded by blue cohosh is quite long and extensive. Listing some of them:


  1. Rheumatism.
  2. Dropsy
  3. Epilepsy
  4. Hysteria
  5. Uterine inflammation

(Especially for chronic cases)

In medical jargon it is called an antispasmodic, diuretic and antihelmintic. In use it is preferable to Ergot, expediting delivery, where delay results from debility, fatigue or want of uterine nervous energy.

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