Species information
Endemic to
• Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and America
Leaves
• Opposite and triangular, long with serrate margins
Usage
• Medicine
Betony is a genus of annual or perennial herbs, regarded as the most important medicinal herb to the Anglo-Saxons of early medieval Great Britain.
Betony has healing properties, and is used in wizarding remedies: dried betony leaves are used in the treatment of mad dog bites.