Butternut Bark Powder (Juglans cinerea) 1 lb: C

This is Starwest's nitrogen-flushed double wall silverfoil pack. Used as a decoction, extract, tincture, syrup, poultice and lotion. As Grieve puts it, 'Butternut is a mild cathartic like rhubarb; it does not constipate and is often used as a habitual laxative...' Adds Ellingwood, 'Juglans cinerea has proved to be curative of a great variety of skin diseases...' Grieve's classic 'A Modern Herbal': 'The inner bark of the root is the best for medicinal use and should be collected in May or June...' '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 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.' 'Preparations: Fluid extract, 1 to 2 drachms. Solid extract, 5 to 10 grains Juglandin, 2 to 5 grains.' King's 1898 Dispensatory: 'Butternut in small doses is a mild stimulant to the intestinal tract, proving laxative and in larger doses is a gentle and agreeable cathartic, causing no griping, nor subsequent weakness of the intestines. It resembles rhubarb in its effect, but without inducing constipation after its action. It is very valuable in cases of habitual constipation, colorectitis, and several other intestinal diseases. It is generally used in the form of an extract, in doses of 1 to 30 grains.' 'Juglans is an efficient cathartic to use when a free action of the bowels is demanded in rheumatism and chronic respiratory affections.' 'A strong decoction of it is much employed in some sections of the country, as a domestic remedy in rheumatism affecting the muscles of the back, and in intermittent and remittent fevers, as well as in other diseases attended with congestion of the abdominal viscera...' American Materia Medica, 1919 (Ellingwood): 'It is said to be a valuable remedy in duodenal catarrh, with torpidity of the liver and chronic jaundice. Small doses have been successfully employed in dysentery, bilious diarrhoea, and in intestinal diseases, with symptoms indicating irritability, hyperemia, or a tendency to inflammation. Chronic constipation can be successfully corrected by medium doses of the extract, if the affection depends upon defective elimination of bile, causing the stools to be clay-colored and dry from a lack of biliary and glandular secretion.' 'Combined with other agents, as hyoscyamus, belladonna, nux vomica, leptandra or capsicum, a most excellent pill can be made, which will cure many cases the above conditions, and will stimulate the stomach and intestinal tract, in those atonic or debilitated conditions which induce chronic dyspepsia.' 'In the skin disorders named under dandelion, pustular and eczematous, it will act in the same manner as dandelion, and may be advantageous