Medicinal Plants-Sycamore - Brandeis University
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The sycamore tree has 5 lobed, crenate-serrate leaves and is a large tree that grows as high as 100 feet.The leaves are dark green and pale.The winged fruit characteristic of the maples can be found in hanging racemes.Back to the top.
Found in mountainous and upland areas of Europe and western Asia, and in the United States.Back to the top.
The tree has characteristics of both maple and sycamore.The bark of the sycamore is multi-colored and peeling.Fruits are large.Back to the top.
The bark can be used to make a wash for skin problems and an eyewash for sore eyes.Dressing for wounds can be done with the inner bark of the tree.Back to the top.
Clarence Meyer is the publisher of American Folk Medicine.
The updated version of Culpeper's Complete Herbal & English Physician was published by Meyerbooks in 1990.
Steven Foster and James A. wrote Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants.The company is located at 215 Park Avenue South in New York.
Shambala Publications, Inc., Horticultural Hall, 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts is where the Indian Herbalogy of North America was written.
Edith Van Allen Murphey is the author of Indian Uses of Native Plants.
New World Dictionaries: A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 15 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10023, has an Editor in Chief.
The RodaleHerb Book: How to Use, Grow, and Buy Nature's Miracle Plants is an organic gardening and farming book.