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Prickly Ash Zanthoxylum spp

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Zanthoxylum americanum
Zanthoxylum americanum
Common Names
Prickly Ash , Szechuan pepper, chuan jiao, Tooth Ache Tree, yellow wood
Botanical Name
Zanthoxylum spp
Syn. Clava-herculis and americanum
Family
RUTACEAE Rue or Citrus Family
Prickly Ash Medicinal Properties & Benefits
Common Uses: Nausea * Parasites/Worms *
Properties: Antiparasite* Digestive*
Parts Used: The bark or the fruit, dried and chopped
Constituents:volatile oil containing geraniol
Traditions:

Prickly ash bark relieves chronic pain, and is most often used as a poultice applied to the skin over the area of pain. This more effective than a prickly ash tincture or tea taken by mouth. Traditional herbal medicine also uses prickly ash to kill parasites and to alleviate abdominal pain, particularly when the source of the pain is a parasitic infection.


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Traditional Chinese Medicine
tradional chinese medicine Traditional Chinese Medicine uses prickly ash to warm the "middle burner," the energies in the middle of the body that power the immune response and help digest food.
Side Effects:
Use with caution during pregnancy. Prickly ash can stop lactation, and should be avoided by mothers wishing to continue nursing.
How to Use: Prickly Ash
Preparation Methods & Dosage :Prickly ash bark is used in teas, or tinctures. The powdered bark is used in poultices for abdominal pain.

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referencesPrickly Ash Medicinal Uses & Benefits
Nausea * Parasites/Worms *
Prickly Ash Bark for :Abdominal Pain, Roundworms
Abdominal Pain, Roundworms Chopped prickly ash bark can be used to make teas or tinctures when combined with: Ginger and/or Panax ginseng for relieving chronic abdominal pain. Ginger to treat nausea and vomiting in long-term illnesses. Mume fruit(plum blossom)and coptis, or Oregon grape root for treating symptoms caused by roundworms (usually vomiting).

. Prickly Ash Bark and Powder Profile. (2010), Mountain Rose Herbs

Plant Description

Flora de Filipinas 1880
Flora de Filipinas 1880

The fruit of several species are used to make the spice Sichuan (or Szechuan) Pepper. They are also popular as bonsai trees.

Related Species The common name Toothache Tree refers most often to the * Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (also called pepperwood, Southern prickly ash) or Zanthoxylum americanum (Northern prickly ash)
The common name Prickly Ash has also been given to Aralia spinosa (Linn.), the Prickly Elder, or Angelica Tree
History and Traditions
historyThe use of prickly ash comes down to us from antiquity, the Chinese recorded its use about 1350 in the Ri Yong Ben Cao (Home Guide to Useful Medicines)
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