Wild Cherry Bark and Wild Cherry Bark Extract.

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History and Legend of Cherry Tree.

Wild Cherry Bark Extract.Wild Cherry Extract INCI Name Prunus Serotina Bark Extract CAS 84604-07-9 Prunus Serotina Extract 84604-07-9.EINECS ELINCS No 283-284-0 Prunus serotina Ehrh black cherry bark Old Indian Wild Cherry Bark photo picture image Said to date as far back as 300 b.c., cherries were named after the Turkish town of Cerasus. Throughout the centuries, cherry trees have been lauded for their deliciously succulent fruit as well as for their beauty.Priest say it is a "mild, soothing, stimulating astringent: tonic expectorant for acute irritable coughs, quietens nervous irritability and relieves arterial excitement. Sedative for conditions of prolonged irritation." They give the following specific indications: chronicbronchitis with debility. Catarrhal dyspepsia, weak digestion in the elderly. Chronic diarrhoea. Weak throat. Ophthalmia.

 The Cherry tree is a native of Asia, and imported to Europe and North America, but the wild Cherry is believed to be a native of North America, and grows from the Carolinas to Florida in the United States. It is a large, deciduous tree with a rough, reddish-brown bark and lustrous, dark green, oval, serrate leaves with pointy tips, and it bears small, delicate white flowers that bloom in April. The flowers are followed by one-seeded, purplish-red fruits that ripen in late summer and early autumn. The tree, which may reach a height of one hundred feet, can be found wild in moist woodlands and thickets, by riverbanks, or cultivated in well-drained, neutral-to-alkaline soil in sun, and it is prone to frost damage in a cold spring. The Cherry has been a source of food, drink and medicinal preparations since time immemorial.
 Wild Cherry Bark Extract.Wild Cherry Extract INCI Name Prunus Serotina Bark Extract CAS 84604-07-9 Prunus Serotina Extract 84604-07-9.EINECS ELINCS No 283-284-0 Prunus serotina Ehrh black cherry bark Old Indian Wild Cherry Bark photo picture image

 In North America, the early colonists included Cherry Bark from the wild Cherry tree in cough medicines, and they probably learned of the plant's medicinal qualities from the Native Americans who utilized the bark for diarrhea and lung ailments. The Mohegans used it to cure dysentery; the Cherokees used it to relieve pain in the early stages of labor; and the Meskwakis used it as a sedative.

 In 1785, a Reverend Cutler reported that an infusion of the black cherry bark was successfully used to treat jaundice.

 In an 1830 publication entitled Medical Flora or Manual of Medical Botany of the United States, Constantine Rafinesque stated in volume two that both the chokecherry and the wild black cherry were medicinally active. Both were listed in the US Pharmacopoeia from 1820 to 1970. Although they are distinct species, they were listed as synonymous in some editions. It is still currently listed as a pharmaceutical aid, a flavouring agent.

 Wild Cherry Bark was officially listed in the United States Pharmacopoeia from 1820 through 1975 as a sedative and antitussive - proving both Native Americans and early settlers correct in their medicinal applications. The Cherry is one of many species of Prunus, which includes cherries and plums, among others, and has been an inspiration in Chinese art for centuries. Interestingly, a highly controversial cancer treatment (called laetrile) that has been conducted in Germany and Mexico (which is debunked by the medical community in the United States) includes amygdalin, a substance that is found in Cherry Bark and other members of the Prunus genus, i.e., plums, almonds, peaches, apricots and sweet cherries. Cherry Bark is also an extremely valuable commercial commodity. Its wood has been important in furniture making, and few people have not tasted cough drops and cough medicines made from Cherry Bark. The fruit is also included in jellies, jams, wines, soft drinks and syrups. Because the wild Cherry is so naturally sour, it has sometimes been called Chokecherry, and it is an aromatic, astringent, warming herb that is an important factor in herbal medicines.

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last edit date:17th,June.2009.