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What is it?

The bark from the root of the Bayberry, which itself is a hardy, evergreen and long-lived shrub that grows to about 2 meters in height.

How has it been used?

Bayberry was an essential part of treatments for many chronic digestive disorders such as dysentery, mucus colitis, diarrhoea and enteric infections. Any kind of looseness or inflammation of the bowels would see Bayberry taking a central role in the treatment plan. Women’s problems were also frequently treated with Bayberry, including such conditions as uterine prolapse and frequent or heavy periods.

Bayberry was relied on for the treatment of fevers and serious wasting conditions where its tonic and restorative properties were understood to come to the fore.

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Personal experiences

Bayberry dried herb and its extract have a marvellous heating quality that is hard to describe because it is not your typical ‘spiciness’ (like from cayenne or ginger for example), but rather something that goes in at a deeper level, a gut level you could say.

Bayberry root bark is a truly healing, warming tonic and I have come to understand in my own practice why this so herb was so revered as a treatment for disorders of the digestive and reproductive systems.

Bayberry combines perfectly with Cinnamon for 'stuck blood', with Panax Ginseng for cold and tired depletion and with Licorice root for a weakened digestive system.

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Excerpt from Felter & Lloyd's Kings Dispensatory from 1898

Bayberry bark is astringent and stimulant, and as such is valuable in debilitated conditions of the mucous membranes. The bark has been successfully employed in scrofula, jaundice, diarrhoea, dysentery, aphthae, and other diseases where astringent stimulants were indicated. In small doses it has been found advantageous in chronic gastritis, chronic catarrhal diarrhoea, muco-enteritis, and in dysentery having a typhoid character. Cases calling for myrica show feeble venous action, while the pulse is full and oppressed. The decoction is beneficial as a gargle in sore mouth and throat, and is of service in injection, in leucorrhoea and fistula, and also as a wash for ulcers, tinea capitis, etc. It also forms an excellent gum wash for tender, spongy, and bleeding gums.

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