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Populus, Poplar-tree

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Ortus Sanitatis, Meydenbach, 1491

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Left Black Poplar; Right: White Poplar
Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

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Black Poplar
Della Materia Medicinale
, Andrea Valuassori, 1562

White Poplar
New Kreuterbuch, Matthiolus, 1563

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Koehler's Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887

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BLACK POPLAR BUDS
Squibb's Atlas of the Official Drugs
, Mansfield, 1919


Botanical name:
Populus nigra (less commonly White Poplar, P. alba)

Parts used:
Bark, Buds, leaf of the Black Poplar; rarely the Bark of the White Poplar.

Temperature & Taste:
‘They are both of a mixed Nature, but moist and dry, inclining to Cold’ (Schroder); Black is Colder.

Uses:
1. Clears Heat and Damp, Promotes Urine:
-Strangury, Difficult, Painful or Dribbling Urine;
-more recently it has been used for Prostatitis, Prostatic Hypertrophy, and Prostate Adenoma.
-Sciatica (since Dioscorides)
    
2. Stops Wind:
-Seed in powder, taken with Vinegar was given for Epilepsy.

3. Externally:
-topical applications of preparations of the bark are useful for Pain such as Joint Pain and Rheumatism, as well as Headaches etc.
-the sap applied cures Warts, Impetigo, ‘Pushes, Wheals, and other like breakings out in the body’. (Culpeper)
-Leaf juice dropped into the Ears eases their pain.
-the buds are used in preparations for Hemorrhoids
-fresh leaves bruised with vinegar are applied to Gout and Joint pain
-the buds, leaf or bark have all been used for Burns and Wounds
-buds have been used topically for Frostbite and Sunburn.
-buds of the Black were used in hair washes, or steeped in fresh butter to improve the Hair.
-‘Buds or Seeds of the Black are used by Women to increase and adorn hair, and to allay pains’. (Schroder)
-‘the juice in the holes of the Tree, cures Warts and
Impetigines [Impetigo]’. (Schroder)


Main Combinations:
1. To clear Heat and Inflammation, and ease pain, the buds are made into an ointment with Poppy, Blackberry tips, Black Nightshade, Wild Lettuce, Violet (as in Ointment of Poplar)


Cautions:
None noted.
Avoid overdose.

Main Preparations used:
Infused Oil of Poplar Buds, Ointment of Populeon.

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