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Medical Trees

Oak - The acorns, leaves, and inner bark are medicinal. For bleeding of the mouth, spitting blood, or to stop vomiting a tea of bark and the powder of the cups. Acorn and bark tea can help men as a method of birth control also and this can be used for an ulcerated bladder and bloody urine. The distilled water of the buds (before they become leaves) outwardly and inwardly for inflmmations, infections, whites, and buring fevers. More uses for the water of the leaves are to normalise the kidneys, spleen, and liver, tumours, swellings, troubles in the rectum, piles, varicose veins, Leuchorrhea, hardened neck, goiter, hemmoraghes, and womb troubles. The dosage for this is one ounce of the bard steeped in a pint of water use one teaspoonful three or four times a day for dysentery or diarrhea. For leucorrhea inject. You can also use this for as a gargle for catarrh and sore throat. This is also antispetic and astringent. This makes a good emena for gonorrhea, gleet, leucourrhea, and colon trouble. Plus it can be used for goiter and stomach troubles.

Pine - The pine can be useful for rheumatism, coughs, kideny troubles, influenza, tonsilitis, croup, throat troubles, and bronchial and catarrhal troubles.

Poplar - The bud, leaves, and bark can be used and they are useful in Sciatic, eczema, gangrenous wounds, la grippe, bad ulcers, neuralgia, influenza, diabetes, hay fever, kideny troubles, liver, jaundice, intermittent fever, cholera infantum, chronic diarrhea, and rheumatism.

Cedar - Cedar can be used effectively for coughs, pulmonary catarrh, rheumatism, fevers, and scurvy. When the twigs and leaves are boiled in white vaseline or cocoa fat is a wonderful salve.

Balm of Gilead - This tree not only has a beautiful fragrance but the bark and leaves can be used for colds, coughs, lung troubles, urniary, and kidney troubles. Plus, you can make a salve from the buds boiled in olive oil, another good oil, or cocoa fat. The buds and bark can be used to increase the flow of urine and in the treatment of scurvy. The bud is very good for soothing or healing of inflamed parts, a gargle for sore throat, and the healing of fresh cuts and wounds. Also the buds are good in treating colds and coughs. A tea made of the buds before they burst can be nice to gargle for throat troubles. To increase the efficiency add one of the following herbs (equal parts): red sage, hyssop, liquorice, lobelia, ragwort, anise, coltsfoot, chickweed, or horehound.

Balsam - This tree has more uses than as Yule/Christmas trees. The big blisters on its bark are filled with a medicine called balsam fir. The bark and twigs are good for gleet, inflammation of the bladder, urinary compliants, kidney trouble, and rheumatism.

Hemlock - This is used to tan shoe leather but it can also be a very powerful poision. It will increase the flow of urine, good for bladder and kidney manners, successful in the treatment of leucorrhea and proapsus of the uterus, to use internally as a douche. This can be used as an enema for diarrhea. It can be used to bathe ulcers and sores on the outside of the body also. The powder can also be put in the shoes when the feet have a bad odor or are tender. This is a good gargle and mouth wash (but I do NOT reccomend this).

Eucalyptus - The leaves and bark are used in cases of fevers, asthma, chronic and acute bronchitis, and aliments similar to those.

Manoglia - The bark can be used as a substitue for quinine and leaves no horrible effects. Manoglia will cure a tobacco habit and is useful in cases of erysipelas, fever, dysentery, and dyspepsia.

Beech - Along with wonderful nuts the bark and leaves are useful in treating diabetes, bladder, kidneys, liver, ulcers, and stomach troubles. Also the leaves and bark are a wonderful tonic and produce appetite. The leaves are astringent and very soothing for the stomach and nerves. They are good for swellings and soothing to wounds and sores on both people and animals. The leaves are very healing and cooling. You can bathe sores in a tea prepared by taking a teaspoonful to the cup of boiling water and let steep a half hour. This tea is antiseptic and can heal and clean old sores when used often. This tea is also a good remedy for diabetes when taken three to four times a day; one hour before each meal and a cup when retiring for the night.

Birch - The little twigs and bark of the birch tree are good for purifying the blood, expelling worms, rheumatism, gout, and bowel troubles. Also, it tastes similar to wintergreen and can be mixted with wintergreen with extremly pleasant results. This is also a good tree when used in the treatment of sores and boiles used externally as well as internally.

Slippery Elm - Both the outer and inner bark can be used, and so gentle even infants can be treated with it. Slipper elm can be used for bladder and bowel troubles, diarrhea, lung troubles, boils and inflammations, kidney and stomach troubles, ulcerated stomach, and bronchitis.

Linden - Linden, or Basswood, has useful leaves, inner bark, and flowers. This tree is good for colds when takens hot as a tea as it will rid the body of mucus and slime. The tea is especially good for cleansing of the stomach, bladder, and kidneys. Also used in women's troubles and poultices for painful swellings and boils. When used as a gargle this works nicely for coughs, hoarseness, sore throat, headaches, and epilepsy.

Chestnut - Inner bark and leaves have medical uses. Mostly though their nuts are used as food because they are low in protein, high in starches and carbohydrates, and many minerals especially iron and sodium.

Butternut - The root, leaves, and bark are good medicines. This tonic is a good laxative, will expel worms from the intestines, and is soothing to the system. It's a good remedy for chronic constitpation, colds, la grippe, the liver, and wonderful in fevers of all kinds. The nuts are fantastic for food and high in minerals and fat.

Iron Wood or Lever Wood - The inner bark and inner red wood of this tree has many medicinal properties but to make it ready to use you would have to shave it or cut it up into small chips and boil them for fifteen to twenty minutes. If you are going to do this it's good to gather the barks in late summer. However, this is a good tonic that's good for the stomach and a blood purifier. This tonic may also be used in neuralgia, fever, ague, scrofula, dyspepsia, and as a nerve tonic.

Peach - Along with a the lovely fruit this tree produces the leaves are a remedy for jaundice, fever, stomach troubles, dyspepsia, worms, and useful in stopping vomiting and morning sickness during pregnancy; plus they are a laxative. It's a good idea to always have peach leaves on hand.

Apple - Again, this is a tree who's usefulness goes beyond the fruit it produces. The bark is a uselful gravel in the bladder, and when made into a tonic it is used in bilious and intermittent fevers. For those people with too much acid, sweet apples may prove helpful and those with not enough acid should eat sour apples. Very small babies and old people will benefit from a scraped mellow apple. For people with diabetes apples are escpecially good and they are beneficial to the kidneys and liver.

Cherry - The cherry contains malic acid and is very good for one. The bark will loosen phlegm in the throat and chest in cases of TB, brongchitis, coughs, heart troubles, high boold pressure, dyspepsia, stomach troubles, and fever. Another beneficial effect is it's a good voice conditioner.

Hickory - While mostly known for it's strong wood, the inner bark is also very helpful when used as a laxative, and for purifying the system. It is also used for treating colitits, diarrhea and simliar problems, and for washing sores and uclers. To make an enema from it take a heaping tablespoon to a quart of boiling water, simmer for fifteen minutes, and then strain off. For interall use you can make a tea of one teaspoonful of granulated bark or leaves to one cup boiling water, let simmer thirty minutes, strain, and drink one to three cups a day.

Tamarack - For bleeding make a tea of the inner bark and this method may also be usef for the the spitting of blood from the throat or lungs and bleeding hemorrhoids. This can also be used for lessening profuse menstruation. This is good for jaundice, the spleen, colic, and liver troubles as well as an effective treatment for poisonous insect bites. This is a good treatment for an enlarged and hardened spleen, ear pains, and inflammination of the eyes when you bathe the eyes in the tea. For earache use a medicine dropper and drop lukewarm tea in the ear. The tea is also a good wash for old, running ulcers or gangrene and will overcome itch and kill lice and nits. For burns and scalds a tea made of the ashes can be used. If one is subject to jaundice and meloncholy this is a good rememdy. In cases of consitpation add a littel buckthron bark and calamus root, make a tea and use the inner bark (equal parts about a teaspoon).

Alder - The leaves and bark are most commonly used for treating swellings. When you can get green leaves crush them and lay them on painful swellings to take down swelling and relieve pain. To make a poultice crush the leaves. The green or dry leaves made into a poultice will also work in cases of inflammation in a painful and swollen breast. Take a heaping teaspoon to a pint of boiling water and let steep a half hour. When using as a poultice just take enough water to leave it moist. The fresh leaves are used for aching and buring feet and can be laid in the shoes or directly on the feet. You may also want to bathe the feet ina strong tea.

Cinnamon - This is stimulating and can prevent gas and a sour stomach. This tree also has laxative properties but having antisringent properties is good in diarrhea and stomach complaints as well as relive the pain of griping. This can also be put with other herbs to mask a bitter flavour. Take a rounding teaspoonful to the cup of boiling water, stir, and drink hot. Drink only small portions at a time four to five times a day or as needed for pain.

Prickley Ash - The chewing of the bark can help tootache and sores in the mouth, but the berries may also be used. This tree is a good remedy for many aliments.

Cypress - The nuts and cones will stop bleeding and they are antistringent. For internal use make a tea of a few cones simmer slowly in some water for a few minutes. Take two tablespoonfuls every two hours. This is very effective in cases of diarrhea but will also stop the bleeding of stomach and lungs, piles, bloody diarrhea, and dysentery. It can also be used in treating bleeding gums and pyorrhea as a mouth rinse. In caes of too profuse menstruation this can be injected.

Maple - Aside from sugar and syrup that can be made from this tree the leaves and inner bark are good for the spleen and liver, especially the soothing of. They are just good for soothing the nevers and as a tonic for the rest of the body as well. On heaping teaspoon to a cup of boiling water, one to three cups a day on an empty stomach for liver and spleen pain.