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Wild Cherry

Prunus avium
       

Names

History

Constituents

Uses
L rosaceae
Common Wild Cherry
Gean
Virginian Prune
Black Cherry
L. prunus is the ancient name for plum.
Cherry is Assyrian, karsun Greek, kerasosavium is Latin for bird, or the birds love the wild fruit.

Traditional folk used in various medicines.
Starch,
resin,
tannins,
Tannic acid,
gallic acid,
fatty matter,
lignin,
red colouring,
salts of calcium,
potassium,
iron,
volatile oil associated with hydrocyanic acid by distillation of water from the bark.
Provitamin A,
flavonoids.
analgesic,
anodyne,
blood cleanser,
emetic,
expectorant,
febrifuge,
vermifuge,
good for womens' ailments,
cancer,
burns,
measles,
diuretic and astringent from fruit and also dried fruit stalks,
for mild diarrhoea,
tonic,
pectoral,
sedative,
treatment of bronchitis,
catarrh,
whooping cough,
nervous cough,
dyspepsia,
"consumption",

commercial liqueur, "kirsh",
valuable timber.

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Contra-Indications



Blossoms can cause sinus reaction.

Abstract, also, from a free downloadable Google E-book. RE: CHERRY PITS, PLEASE READ:

An encyclopaedia of useful and ornamental plants: consisting of beautiful ..
By Gilbert Thomas Burnett




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