Wild Cherry Bark This herb is a great heart tonic, and sedative helping with insomnia, nervousness, palpitations and restlessness. It is most known for treating lung conditions: coughs, asthma, lung infections, whooping cough, hacking cough, croup, catarrh, lingering cough after an infection. It also aids in irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory conditions in the intestines. Great as an anti-inflammatory and fever reducer, this herb can be used topically for sores, ulcers, shingles, herpes. The presence of cyanogenic glycosides (prunasin) and amygdalin are attributed to it’s anti-cancer effects, the presence of prunasin makes wild cherry bark toxic in large doses. #wildcherrybark #herbs #herbalism #thehealingtree #thehealingtreellc #cough #asthma https://www.instagram.com/p/B4gwffOgkpK/?igshid=187qhn6jjlsbe
