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OAK TREE QUERCUS ROBUR The distilled water of the buds, before they break out into leaves, is good ... to assuage inflammations and to stop all manner of fluxes. The Oak is familiar to most. It is a large tree with spreading head and a thick trunk producing flowers in catkins and seeds as acorns. Where to find it: Very common in many countries where it forms large forests. Flowering time.. Mid to late spring. The acorns are ready in autumn. Astrology: A tree of Jupiter. Medicinal virtues: The inner bark of the tree and the skin covering the acorn are used to stay the spitting of blood and the flux. The decoction of the bark and the powdered acorns stay vomiting, spitting of blood, bleeding at the mouth, or other flux of blood. It will also stay the involuntary flux of natural seed. The powdered acorn taken in wine provokes urine and resists poison from venomous creatures. The distilled water of the leaf buds cools the heat of the liver, breaks the stone and stays women's courses. The distilled water of the leaves is one of the best remedies for the whites. Modern uses. A powerful astringent used to check diarrhoea - 1 OZ (28 g) of the powdered bark is boiled in 2 pt (1.1 1) of water until it measures 1 pt (568 ml). It is then strained and taken in doses of 2 fl oz (56 ml). The decoction is also antiseptic and used as a vaginal injection for leucorrhoea and as a gargle for a sore throat. It can also be applied as a lotion to bleeding piles. |