L rosaceae
Common Wild Cherry
Gean
Virginian Prune
Black Cherry
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L. prunus is the
ancient name for plum.
Cherry is Assyrian, karsun Greek, kerasosavium
is Latin for bird, or the birds love the wild
fruit.
Traditional folk used in various medicines.
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Starch, resin,
tannins, Tannic acid, gallic acid, fatty matter, lignin, red
colouring, salts of calcium, potassium, iron, volatile oil
associated with hydrocyanic acid by distillation of water from
the bark. Provitamin A, flavonoids.
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diuretic and astringent from fruit and also dried fruit
stalks, also for mild diarrhoea, tonic, pectoral, sedative, treatment of
bronchitis, catarrh,whooping cough, nervous cough, dyspepsia, "consumption",
commercial liqueur, "kirsh", valuable timber.
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