Lesser celandine is a plant. The parts that grow above the ground are used to make medicine.
Despite some safety concerns, people take lesser celandine by mouth for hemorrhoids and scurvy, a condition caused by lack of vitamin C.
Lesser celandine is sometime applied directly to the skin for bleeding wounds and gums, swollen joints, warts, scratches, and hemorrhoids.
In food, fresh leaves of lesser celandine are sometimes used in salads.
Don't confuse lesser celandine with greater celandine (Chelidonium majus) or jewelweed, otherwise known as wild celandine. Also, don't confuse lesser celandine with Scrophularia nodosa, since both are sometimes called figwort; or with amaranth and bulbous buttercup, since these are also known as pilewort.
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