Bryony - Treatment and Medical Benefits of Bryony Herb

Latin description: Bryonia dioica syn Bryonia cretica subsp dioica

Common Name: Cow's Lick, Cowhind, Devil's Turnip, English Mandrake, Red Bryony, Wild Hops

Parts Used: Tap root.

Medcinal Uses and Benefits of Bryony

• For sores, old writers recommend it being made into an ointment with 'hog's grease or wax, or other convenient ointment.

• Was once used externally as a rubefacient for muscle and joint pain, and pleurisy.

• Has been used in combination with other herbs for problems of the gastro-intestinal tract, respiratory tract, arthritis, metabolic disorders, liver problems; also as part of therapy for acute and chronic infection.
• A tincture made from the root proves a most useful application to unbroken chilblains, and also the fruits , steeped in gin, are used for the same remedy.
• Emetic and laxative effects are proven. Other uses are not verified.
• Acrid, bitter, purgative, laxative, emetic, diuretic, antitumor, antirheumatic, rubefacient; acts as an irritant to tissue thus increasing blood supply to the area it contacts.
• The berries act as an emetic, and children should be cautioned against eating them.
• Was once used internally in small doses for bronchitis, asthma, intestinal ulcers, hypertension, and asthma.
• As an external irritant, Black Bryony has, however, been used with advantage, and it was formerly much employed. The scraped pulp was applied as a stimulating plaster, and in gout, rheumatism and paralysis has been found serviceable in many instances.

• Illness y
• Disease condition y
• Diarrhea
• Tooth whitening
• Mittelschmerz
• Hivid
• Sore mouth
• Monocyte
• Sepsis symptom
• Prostate gland

Health Tip

Foods high in substances called purines increase levels of uric acid in the blood, and foods to be avoided include poultry, strawberries, shellfish, game, caffeine and alcohol.