HOUSELEEK
(Sempervivum tectorum)

sback.gif sup.gif snext.gif


Small hardy perennial of the dry and sandy grounds growing to 0,20 m of which one uses the leaves.

Houseleek is used for various skin affections, scabs, burns, chapped skin, insect bite.
Also on warts, corns, hemorroids.



Press the plant to extract the juice, apply the juice and crushed leaves on corns, keep in place with a bandage.

Cataplasms of fresh crushed leaves on hemorroids, scabs.

sback.gif sup.gif snext.gif
Sempervivum tectorum, Common houseleek, Jove's beard, Jupiter's eye, Thor's beard, St. George's Beard, Welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk.