Wild Cherry  

Prunus avium

Name:

L rosaceae, Common Wild Cherry, Gean, Virginian Prune, Black Cherry

History:

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.

Constituents:

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.

Uses:

analgesic, anodyne, blood cleanser, emetic, expectorant, febrifuge, vermifuge, good for womens' ailments, cancer, burns, measles, diuretic and astringent from fruit, and also from dried fruit stalks, for mild diarrhoea, tonic, pectoral, sedative, treatment of bronchitis, catarrh, whooping cough, nervous cough, dyspepsia, "consumption"

commercial liqueur, "kirsh", valuable timber.

Dosage is given in:

1. syrup: 1 to 4 drachms
2. in tincture: 1/2 to 1 drachm
3. Infusion (tea) 1 - 2 oz.
   
   

Contra-Indications

blossoms can cause sinus reaction.

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

From 'An encyclopaedia of useful and ornamental plants': consisting of beautiful ..

By Gilbert Thomas Burnett

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