Product Description
Cramp bark is possibly the best female regulator-relaxant agent that traditionally treats the uterus and ovaries, muscle cramps,intestinal spasms, mumps, high fever, pain relief is especially useful for painful and difficult menstruation and for nervous affections during pregnancy that threaten abortion.
A deciduous, thicket-forming shrub, 12 feet tall, with smooth gray branches. The winter buds are scaly. Leaves are maple-like, pubescent beneath with 3-5 acuminate lobes, coarsely,and irregularly toothed. It turns burgundy in the autumn. In early summer.the conspicuous, large, nearly flat-topped heads of snow-white flowers appear. The berries are bright red. Cultivated and wild throughout the U.S.
The fruit is used as a substitute for cranberries. It makes a tart jelly or distilled spirit. It is toxic and bitter if eaten fresh.
