Application
Spring – Brownroot has not been particularly used as a medicinal plant. It came here with the monks and has been cultivated in monastery gardens around the country. From here it has strayed into the wild. Spring – Brownroot is still a rare plant in Danish nature.
Spring – Burdock root has mainly been used externally to treat bruises and sprains, eczema, wounds, and boils.
Ingredients
Saponins, heart-active glucosides, flavonoids.

Scrophularia vernalis L.
Photo of page in Joachim Burser's herbarium.