A genus of annual, often perennial herbs, sometimes subshrubs of the Oxalidaceae family.
This plant improves metabolism, increases appetite, has an antihelminthic, hemostatic, wound-healing, diuretic and choleretic effect. In addition, wood sorrel eliminates heartburn, vomiting, normalizes the acidity of gastric juice, reduces blood pressure, is an antiscorbutic and antidote for mercury and arsenic poisoning.
