THE BIRCH TREEDescription:Betula Alba. Its appearance in summer is elegant, and in winter the bark is frequently variegated with red and white streaks.
Herbal Remedies and Medicinal Uses of Birch Tree:The juice of the leaves, while young, or the distilled water of them, or the juice from the tree bored with an augur, and distilled afterwards, any of these being drunk for some days together, tends to break the stone in the kidneys and bladder, and is good also to wash sore mouths. The leaves have been used in the itch, dropsy, etcetera, either externally applied, or taken in decoction.Birch-wine made from the juice of the tree, is an excellent remedy for consumptions, and scurvy; and the fungus which grows on the tree, is a good styptic.
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