Additional notes (click to expand)

Medicinal

Medicinal uses Uses supported by clinical data None. Uses described in pharmacopoeias and well established documents As a sedative for the treatment of nervous tension and insomnia. Treatment of dyspepsia and lack of appetite (5, 15–17). Uses described in traditional medicine Treatment of abdominal cramps, anaemia, bacterial infections, dermatitis, diarrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, leukorrhoea, migraine and oedema (6). As an analgesic, anthelminthic, antipyretic, aphrodisiac, carminative, depurative, digestant, diuretic, diaphoretic and tonic (6). Contraindications Strobilus Lupuli is contraindicated in cases of known allergy to the plant material.
WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants. Volume 3. 2007. WHO, Geneva

Culpepper’s view on hops was that a “decoction of the tops cleanses the blood, cures the venereal disease, and all kinds of scabs, itch, and other breakings out of the body; as also tetters, ringworms, spreading sores, the morphew, and all discolourings of the skin”.
Bird, R, Houdret, J. (2000). Kitchen and Herb Gardener. Lorenz. p.394

Nomenclature

The English name, hop, comes from the Anglo-Saxon hoppan (to climb).
Grieve, Mrs M. (1931). A Modern Herbal, Penguin. Leyel, Mrs CF p.411

Podcast

Humulus lupulus L. 'Aureus'

Family: CANNABACEAE
Genus: Humulus
Species: lupulus L.
Cultivar: 'Aureus'
Common names: Golden Hop
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis name: Lupulus
Distribution summary: Garden origin
Habit: Climber
Hardiness: H6 - Hardy; very cold winter
Habitat: Hedges and woodland edges
Garden status: Currently grown
Garden location: Pharmacopoeia Londinensis 1618 'Leaves' (HSE 6)
Flowering months: July, August
Reason for growing: Medicinal, other use, traditional herbal registration


Back to List