Most people know the clivers only form walks, where the little fruits stick to the cloths.
As a medicinal plant, it is rather unknown - unfairly,
because it is a valuable remedy for our health,
specially for the skin and the digestive system.
Medicinal Uses
- Skin illnesses
- Lichens
- Eczemas
- Fingernail ulcer
- Skin impurities
- Lingual inflammation
- Stomach inflammation
- Intestinal inflammation
- Water stowages
- Diuretic
- Cystitis
- Kidney stones
- Kidney semolina
- Bladder stones
- Bladder semolina
- Overweight
Information
Used Parts: | Herb |
Substances: | Glykosid, Saponine, Rubichlorsäure, lemon acid, Galitannsäure, Alizarinthypus, Asperulosid, trace elements |
Time to collect: | April until August |
Methods

If fresh juice is unavailable, one can also use the clivers as tea. With the tea, you can wash the affected place or a compress is applied.
The clivers is drunk as a tea inwardly.
Plant description

The leaves are narrow and stick out of the stalk like little whorls.
Cliver flourishes from April to August with star-shaped little blossoms.
The barnacles that adhere to dresses and animal fur in order to be spread by human being and animal arise from the blossoms.
The yellow blooming real bedstraw (Galium verum) has rolled leaves unlike the barnacle bedstraw.