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
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