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Description
Wild Cherry, also known as Virginia Prune, Black Cherry, Choke Cherry, and Rum Cherry, is a large tree that grows mostly in the northern United States and Canada. It produces small white flowers, and purplish to black fruits, which ripen in early Fall. The bark of older Wild Cherry trees is nearly black, and separates naturally. The bark of young trees is reddish-brown and has an almond-like scent. It is this outer bark of the young Wild Cherry tree that is used medicinally.
Native Americans were the first to discover its healthful qualities, using Wild Cherry Bark to treat diarrhea and pulmonary complaints. Some used Wild Cherry Bark in tea form to ease labor pains. Later, European settlers used Wild Cherry Bark in cough syrups and as a poultice for abscesses and ulcers. Wild Cherry Bark is still used as a cough suppressant, especially in cases of bronchitis, whooping cough, and asthma. It contains prussic acid, which is known to calm the nerves associated with the coughing reflex. Wild cherry bark contains cyanogenic glycosides, particularly prunasin. These glycosides, once broken apart in the body, act to relieve choughs by quelling spasms in the smooth muscles lining bronchioles.
Wild Cherry Bark has been used in several cough suppressant formulas, often combined with Coltsfoot and Horehound to combat whooping cough, and with Meadowsweet and Marshmallow Root to fight dyspepsia. It is also used to sooth the after effects of allergy attacks. Wild Cherry Bark has also been used, in combination with Sarsaparilla, as a blood purifier.
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Directions
Hot tea brewing method: Bring freshly drawn cold water to a rolling boil. Place 1 teaspoon of tea for each cup into the teapot. Pour the boiling water into the pot, cover and let steep for 2-4 minutes. Pour into your cup; add milk and natural sweetener to taste.
Iced tea brewing method: (to make 1 liter/quart): Place 5 teaspoons of tea into a teapot or heat resistant pitcher. Pour 1 1/4 cups of freshly boiled water over the tea itself. Steep for 5 minutes. Quarter fill a serving pitcher with cold water. Pour the tea into the serving pitcher straining the tea. Add ice and top-up with cold water. Garnish and sweeten to taste.
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I have seen a few comments about Wild Cherry Bark Tea being good for Asthma. I ordered some and started drinking one cup of hot tea in the morning and one at night. Since mid January, 2008 I have not used my Serevent inhaler one time. I was on a maintenance schedule of one puff per day, for mild asthma. I believe the tea has certainly helped me, but I am not sure how it would benefit a more severe case of asthma. The tea looks kinda like coarse sawdust [Editor: This product is a tree bark, so it makes sense that it would resemble sawdust.] and really has no taste or smell to me. For someone with mild controllable asthma it is worth a try. It is certainly less expensive than asthma inhalers. However, if you try it, always keep you regular inhalers available in the event it does not work for you.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Products are intended to support general well being and are not intended to treat, diagnose, mitigate, prevent, or cure any condition or disease. If conditions persist, please seek advice from your medical doctor. The essence of the current American rule on Traditional Uses is, as stated by FTC, "Claims based on historical or traditional use should be substantiated by confirming scientific evidence, or should be presented in such a way that consumers understand that the sole basis for the claim is a history of use of the product for a particular purpose."
