The Benefits of Solomon's Seal

by Mike June 12, 2011

Men and women are subject to injury of the locomotion system upon which they rely for movement.

Thus, we must be able to repair damage to the connective tissue – bones, cartilage, and joints – and true Solomon's seal is the best. Solomon's seal is a member of the lily family. Various spp. are native to Asia, Europe, and North America, where they have been used as food and medicine. The soft, sweet white/yellowish rhizomes look like bones and vertebra, while the leaves wrapping around the stalk look like tendons and ligaments wrapping around bones, so Polygonatum has been used to strengthen the bones, marrow, and tendons. The "seals" on the rhizomes, where the stalk rises up, look like the sigils used by magicians (circles with marks inside them). Hence, the platn was named sigilum Salomanis or Solomon's seal, after the wise king. It is one of the plants known in Afro-American herbalism as 'High John the Conqueror,' in reference to magic or 'conquering.' It is worn as a mojo or chewed for 'conquering.'

True Solomon's seal is used in Asia, Europe and North America as a sweet nutritive for tendons and joints. It is of such widespread utility that it can help almost any one with muscular and skeletal problems. It also has a beneficial demulcent nutritive influence to soothe irritation of the mucosa; hence it can be helpful in the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, and female system. The rhizomes look like bones, knuckles, and vertebra, the leaves clasp around the stem, looking like a muscle attaching to a bone, and the flowers appear at the joints. Solomon’s seal also is considered to have a tonifying effect on the sexual system, both male and female. It contains small amounts of cardiac glycosides, like its cousin Convallaria majalis (lily of the valley), but not enough to make it a toxic plant. Indeed, it was an important article of the American Indian diet and remains today a trail food.

Polygonatum spp. is used in Chinese herbalism, where it is known as 'yellow essence.' It is classified as a sweet, neutral yin tonic, or moistening, lubricating, and nourishing tonic. It lubricates the heart and lungs, tones the middle region (abdomen), builds the marrow, and increases semen (essence). As a yin deficiency tonic it is used for dry throat and thirst, cough due to dry lungs, diabetes, and grey hair from kidney yin deficiency. Modern research shows that it can be used to bring down high blood pressure, protect the liver, treat fatty liver, reduce blood sugar levels, and blood fat (Lu, 1994, 203).

Taste: sweet, slightly acrid • cool, moist

Tissue State: atrophy

Specific Indications:

Constitution, Complexion, Characteristic Symptoms

– Stretched, stiff, tight, or loose, weak tendons and ligaments.

– Nutritive food for weak and prostrated persons; tuberculosis.

– Irritation of the mucosa of the intestines, lungs, vagina.

Respiratory:

– Pulmonary problems and hemorrhages.

Cardiovascular

– Heart; relaxes, increases the space between the beats.

Digestive:

– Intestinal upset; tension.

– Hemorrhoids.

Female:

– Profuse menstrual flow, vaginal irritation.

– Restores hormonal glow to the face, tonifies the ovaries, and strengthens the estrogen side of the cycle.

– Ovarian pain.

Male

– Premature ejaculation.

Muscular and Skeletal

– Muscular and skeletal tensions, bones spurs resulting from such tensions.

– Repetitive use injury; carpel-tunnel syndrome; arthritis associated with old injuries, calcifications and muscular and skeletal tensions.

External:

– Bruises.

– External on poison ivy.

Skin Care:

Organic certified Solomon's Seal Extract is a natural products for skin care, used for is anti oxidant and anti aging properties in skin care products. As a natural component of organic skin care, anti wrinkle, natural anti aging, miracle lift. Also sometime found as a fragrance material in organic and natural skin care.

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