Medicine Traditions
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Brief Overview of Traditional Medicine
    • Timeline
    • Authors and Sources
    • Glossaries
    • Articles on Traditional Medicine
    • Photos
    • Medicine Pictures
    • Substitute Medicines
  • Theory
  • Materia Medica
    • Ayurvedic Materia Medica
    • Chinese Materia Medica
    • Tibetan Materia Medica
    • Unani Materia Medica
    • Materia Medica of Herbal Medicine FREE
    • Materia Medica of Herbal Medicine PRO
    • Animal Materia Medica
    • Mineral Materia Medica
    • Chinese Classification
    • Western Classification
    • Humoral Medicine
    • Herbal Combinations
  • Formulas
  • Treatment
    • Types of Treatment in Traditional Medicine
    • Treatment of Specific Conditions
    • Diseases and Formulas
  • Patient Resources
  • Links & Texts
  • Contact Us
  • Store
  • Blog

Cerasa, Cherry

Aloo Baloo Valo, Aluvalu, Elavaluka (Ayurveda)
Picture
Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491

Picture
New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563
Picture
Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

Picture
Icones Plantarum Medcio-oeconomico, Vietz, 1800

Picture
Koehler's Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887

Picture
Dried Sour Cherry as used in Ayurveda and Unani


Botanical name:
Prunus spp.
  1. P. avium (Mazzard, or Sweet Cherry)
  2. P. cerasus (Morello, or Sour Cherry)
Sour Red and Sweet Black varieties were used; Black is best and most nourishing
 

According to Unani, there are several varieties of Cherries:
  1. Sweet: Emollient, Diuretic, Lithontriptic
  2. Sweet-Sour: reduces Heat and Bile, anti-bilious, Liver tonic
  3. Sour-Bitter: astringent, lithontriptic

Parts used:
Fruit; Gum
Ayurveda and Unani use the dried Sour fruit

Temperature & Taste:
Cool, moist. Sour / Sweet

Classifications:
2S. STRENGTHENING MEDICINES
3D. CORDIALS & CARDIACS
4c. CARDIAC    4g. HEPATIC
Preparers and Purgers of Bile

Uses:
1. Clears Heat, Resists Poison, Alleviates Thirst:
-Fevers
-Poison (West, Ayurveda)
-reduces Bile; Burning sensation (Sour variety)
-quenches Thirst (Sour Variety; West, Ayurveda)

2. Nourishes the Blood, Settles Wind:
-Strengthen the Heart, Brain and Nerves
-weakness from Blood deficiency
-Black Cherries were much used for Epilepsy, Apoplexy and Paralysis
-Itching from Wind diseases

-also Bleeding from Heat in the Blood (including excess Menstruation) (West, Ayurveda)

3. Benefits the Heart:
-Cardiac disease (Ayurveda)

4. Clears Heat, Benefit the Stomach
-good for Stomach Heat, strengthens the Stomach
-Conserve of Cherry was used to promote appetite

5. Promotes Urine, Clears Stones:
-Dysuria (West, Unani)
-Clears Stones (Sour fruit, Unani)
-Cherry kernels and Cherry tree gum breaks Stones (West)
-fruit was also regarded as Lithontriptic


6. Externally:
-fruit and the oil are used to beautify the Skin
-Cherry kernel oil is used for chronic joint disease


DOSE:
Dried Cherries in Decoction: 6–9 grams
Cherry Kernels: 1–3 grams in Powder

CORRECTIVE:
Black Pepper, Salt (Unani)

SUBSTITUTE:
Prune

Main Combinations:
1. Dried Sweet variety with Fennel seed promotes Menstruation and clears Stones (Unani)

Major Formulas
Powder for Kidney Obstruction (Wirtzung)


Cautions:
1. Kernels are toxic in excess due to hydrocyanic acid
2. Sweet fruit should be avoided in Cold and Dampness of the Stomach

Main Preparations used:
Preserved, Juice or Rob, Syrup of the Juice, Distilled Water of Black Cherries, Spirit of the Black Cherries, Tincture and Extract, Oil of the Kernels

Home
ABOUT
RESOURCES

materia medica – FREE
Materia Medica – PRO
Classifications


Diseases & Formulas
Links & Texts
Patient Resources

Shop
Texts for Sale
Contact us

TERMS OF USE

PRIVACY POLICY

Copyright © 2015–2021
  • Home
  • About
  • Resources
    • Brief Overview of Traditional Medicine
    • Timeline
    • Authors and Sources
    • Glossaries
    • Articles on Traditional Medicine
    • Photos
    • Medicine Pictures
    • Substitute Medicines
  • Theory
  • Materia Medica
    • Ayurvedic Materia Medica
    • Chinese Materia Medica
    • Tibetan Materia Medica
    • Unani Materia Medica
    • Materia Medica of Herbal Medicine FREE
    • Materia Medica of Herbal Medicine PRO
    • Animal Materia Medica
    • Mineral Materia Medica
    • Chinese Classification
    • Western Classification
    • Humoral Medicine
    • Herbal Combinations
  • Formulas
  • Treatment
    • Types of Treatment in Traditional Medicine
    • Treatment of Specific Conditions
    • Diseases and Formulas
  • Patient Resources
  • Links & Texts
  • Contact Us
  • Store
  • Blog