Wild Cherry Bark Cough Syrup

Wild Cherry Bark Cough Syrup w/Elderberries Wild Cherry, a member of the Roseaceae family, is a plant that has been used as a medicine for eons. It is used for whooping cough, colds, bronchitis, and other breathing problems. It is also beneficial for gout, diarrhea, digestive pain and disorders, and cancer. Used in this homemade cough syrup, it is helpful due to its expectorant, sedative, cough-suppressing, and drying effects. Wild Cherry helps reduce swelling and inflammation and has a drying, astringent effect on the tissues. Energetically, wild cherry is both cooling and warming as well as drying, with a sweet, bitter, and pungent taste. As a member of the rose family, wild cherry is an ally for the heart and sacral chakras, as it is sweet, loving, nurturing, and sensual. It helps open the heart, making space to lovingly communicate with and receive from others. Wild cherry is indicated for an “excited tissue state” (Wood, 2008), meaning heat, redness, inflammation, and tenderness.