BUTTERNUT BARK
Product No. P0223
Also known as White Walnut, Lemon Walnut, Oilnut, and Juglans cineraria.
Butternut is a native North American tree that grows to a height of about 50-75 feet. It’s branches spread wide from the trunk, and are covered with smooth, grey bark. The leaves are alternate and large, and male and female flowers grow in separate catkins. The rough, deeply furrowed fruit is egg-shaped and encased in a hard, dark nutshell. They are edible and pleasant-tasting.
The constituents include a bitter extractive, a large proportion of oily matter, volatile acid and juglandic acid.
The leaves possess much of the same properties as the Black Walnut. The inner bark of the root is the part used for medicinal use and is collected in May or June for this purpose; it is generally found in curved strips or chips from 1/8 to 1/2 inch thick, with a smooth outer and inner surface and with thin stringy fibres. This bark is weak and fibrous, with a slightly aromatic odour and bitter (astringent and acrid) taste. The powdered drug is dark brown.
Butternut, during the last century, and possibly earlier, was known as one of the ‘most mild and efficacious laxatives’ available, and as one of the safest to be found. Native Americans also used the bark for rheumatism, headaches, toothaches, and wounds (to stop the bleeding and promote healing).
In modern medicine, Butternut root bark is receiving renewed interest because of its well-documented cathartic properties. Butternut is also helpful in the treatment of various liver disorders and intestinal sickness, and is practiced extensively in homeopathy.
Butternut Bark is used to expel, rather than kill, worms (vermifuge) during the normal course of laxative-induced cleansing of the body. When combined with anthelmintics, Butternut Bark eliminates parasites from the body.
Butternut has a soothing effect and is used for feverish colds and flu. It is also used for dysentery, diarrhoea, and liver congestion. The leaves or green husks of the nuts taken as a tea are used in the treatment of eczema and other skin diseases. The component Juglone is also antiseptic and herbicidal.
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