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Butternut Bark (dried, cut and sifted, 3 ounces)

Botanical Name: Juglans cinerea

Family: Juglandaceae

---Synonyms--- Juglans cinerea, Butternussbaum, Lemon Walnut, Oil Nut, White Walnut, Nogal Ceniciento, Noyer Cerdr

---Part Used--- Inner bark, dried and chopped.

The butternut is a walnut with leaves like the black walnut but a grayish, deeply furrowed bark. Walnuts are round, but butternuts are elongated, like pecans.

Butternut bark is a mild laxative, used for the same indications as rhubarb, but unlike rhubarb in that small doses are not constipating. Butternut acts on the lower bowel 4 to 8 hours after the herb is taken, and does not cause cramping. The herb also encourages the release of bile by the liver, assisting the digestion of fats and helping maintain hormonal balance.

Precautions

Do not use if you have gallstones.

Typical Preparations

Tea or extract. Butternut bark pieces (but not butternut bark powder) can be soaked in any alcohol as a beverage (such as vodka) with small pieces of ginger and/or angelica to make an extract for treating chronic constipation. Butternut bark powder (see Butternut Bark Powder Herb Profile) is used to make a syrup for treating tapeworms. Can also be taken as an extract or in a capsule.

---Description---The leaves possess much the same properties as the Black Walnut. The inner bark of the root is the best for medicinal use and should be collected in May or June; it is generally found in quills, curved strips or chips from 1/8 to 1/2 inch thick, deep brown in colour all through, outer surface smooth and a little warty, inner surface smooth and striate with fragments and thin stringy fibre, short fracture, weak and fibrous, odour slightly aromatic, taste bitter (astringent and acrid). The powdered drug is dark brown.

---Constituents---A bitter extractive, a large proportion of oily matter, a volatilizable acid and juglandic acid.

---Medicinal Action and Uses---Butternut is a mild cathartic like rhubarb; it does not constipate and is often used as a habitual laxative, also for dysentery and hypatic congestions. It has been employed as a vermifuge and is recommended for syphilis and old ulcers. The expressed oil of the fruit removes tapeworm. The fruit when halfgrown is made into pickles and when matured is a valuable article of diet. The bark is used for dyeing wool a dark brown colour but is inferior to that of the black walnut for this purpose. It is said to be rubefacient when applied to the skin.

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