- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Malvaceae
- English Names
- Marshmallow
- Mallards
- Cheeses
- Schloss Tea
- Natural Habitat
- Europe (including Great Britain
- especially Central Europe)
- Balkan
- Russia
- Western Asia
- Northern Asia
- India
- New York (salt marshes)
- Part(s) Used
- Flores Althaeae
- Folia Althaeae
- Radix Althaeae
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- Constituent(s)
- flower: sugar
- mucilage
- starch
- fatty oil
- betaine; leaf: mucilage
- volatile oil
- acids
- betaine; root: althaein (asparagin)
- betaine
- starch
- mucilage
- pectin
- enzymes
- sugar
- fatty oil
- albumen
- minerals
- salts
- lecithin
- Action
- emollient
- demulcent
- pectoral
- mucilaginous
- anti-inflammatory
- used in catarrh of the respiratory organs and of the intestines
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