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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