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Alder - Treatment and Medical uses of Alder Bark, Leaves, Tree and Wood
Latin description:
Alnus glutinosa syn Betula alnus
Common Name:
Common Alder, European Alder, Black Alder, Red Alder
Parts Used:
Bark and leaves.
Medcinal Uses and Benefits of Alder
- Inner bark has been boiled in vinegar for a wash against lice, scabies, scabs and to clean teeth.
A poultice of leaves used for painful breast (1 heaping Tbsp of leaves to 1 pint of boiling water and steeped 30 minutes).
- The fresh bark will cause vomiting and is useful as an emetic. All other uses should be of the dried bark.
Used primarily by Native Americans for wounds and inflammations; also as a decoction for burns.
- Native Americans used the bark for lung hemorrhages and diptheria; they scraped the inner bark and used the juice to rub on itches and also as a rectal application for piles.
A moist poultice of the inner bark was used to stop heavy bleeding.
- A decoction has been used as a gargle for sore throat; the powdered bark and leaves as an internal astringent and tonic and as a hemostatic against internal and external bleeding.
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