Bryony - Treatment and Medical Benefits of Bryony Herb
Bryony is a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties
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.
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