Part used

Flowering tops, dried

Gather

Wet meadows and Laughery backwaters, August–September. Stem grows through the joined leaf pair.

Tea

1/2 tsp dried tops, 10 minutes. Sip. It will make you sweat if it is going to.

Tincture

Other

Lookalike: white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima) — opposite leaves that do NOT wrap the stem, wood-edge plant, milk-sickness famous. If the stem does not pierce the leaf pair, do not pick it. Boneset in big doses is a gut irritant. Not for children, pregnancy, or daily use.