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Wild Cherry Prunus serotina

Common Names

Wild Cherry , Black Cherry, chokecherry

Botanical Name

Prunus serotina

Family

ROSACEAE Rose Family

Wild Cherry Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Common Uses:	Bronchitis * Colds * Congestion/Chest & Sinus * Cough * Insomnia *
Properties:	Anti-inflammatory* Astringent* Sedative* Expectorant*
Parts Used:	bark
Constituents:	acetylcholine, hcn, kaempferol, p-coumaric acid, prunasin, quercetin, scopoletin, tannins

Black Cherry is an old fashioned cough
remedy that is still a family favorite

Black cherry is an very effective herbal cough remedy. The main use of the bark main use is to still irritated, nagging coughs. Black cherry is used in many commercial cough products such as Smith Brothers, Lunden's and Vicks for the flavor as well as the decongestant and sedative properties.

Side Effects:

Safe in recommended amounts, but not meant for long term use. Although prussic acid is highly poisonous, if wild cherry bark is used in medicinal doses, the low prussic acid content (0.07-0.16%) ensures that the remedy is quite safe.

How to Use: Wild Cherry

Preparation Methods :Use one teaspoon of the powdered bark to 1 cup of hot water up to 3 times daily as a warm infusion, or 2 teaspoons of bark syrup once daily

Remedies using : Wild Cherry Diarrhea Syrup* Herbal Slippery elm cough syrup* Wild Cherry Brandy*

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Wild Cherry Medicinal Uses & Benefits

Wild Cherry Bark for :Coughs
	The cyanogenic glycosides in Wild cherry bark are hydrolized to prussic acid. Prussic acid is excreted rapidly, largely via the lungs where it at first increases respiration and then sedates the sensory nerves which provoke the cough reflex. Richard Mabey, The New Age Herbalist (1988)

Wild Cherry Bark for :Sinus/Flu
	Herbal wild cherry syrups are anti-viral & anti-bacterial and most helpful for sinus, upper respiratory infections, colds & flu.

Wild Cherry Bark for :Coughs
	The cyanogenic glycosides in Wild cherry bark are hydrolized to prussic acid. Prussic acid is excreted rapidly, largely via the lungs where it at first increases respiration and then sedates the sensory nerves which provoke the cough reflex. Richard Mabey, The New Age Herbalist (1988)

Wild Cherry Bark for :Sinus/Flu
	Herbal wild cherry syrups are anti-viral & anti-bacterial and most helpful for sinus, upper respiratory infections, colds & flu.

Plant Description

This indigenous North American tree grows from 50 to 80 feet high, with white flowers that bloom in May. The rough, black separates naturally from the trunk, the root bark in the most valued and is the part used medicinally. The red tinged wood it is fine-grained and compact, and makes beautiful furniture.

History and Traditions

Native Americans made a tea from the bark to help curtail diarrhea and sooth the lungs, and passed it's use on to the early colonial settlers who included wild cherry in many cough elixir.

Folklore, Myths and Legends

Asia/China/India
	Buddhism teaches that Maya, the virgin mother of Buddha, was supported by a holy cherry tree during her pregnancy.

Medieval Europe/Celts
	In Danish folklore, a good crop of cherries was insured by having the first ripe fruit eaten by a woman shortly after her first child was born.

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