Oak Bark 100 g, 50 g, 25 g

Oak bark – 100 g ($13.99), 50 g ($9.99), 25 g ($6.99)

Benefits:

Botanical Name: Quercus alba
English: White Oak
Also, known as: English oak, The Charter Oak, European oak, Tanner’s Bark, and Tanner’s oak, American Oak, Chêne Blanc, Chène Blanc d’Amérique, Écorce de Chêne, Écorce de Chêne Blanc, North American White Oak, Quercus alba, Quercus Cortex, Stave Oak, Tanner’s Bark, Tanner’s Oak, White Oak, White Oak Bark
Origin: Hungary
Harvested: Wild or cultivated
Parts Used: Tree bark

General Information:
Quercus alba, is a large, deciduous tree grows to 50-80′ tall in cultivation and up to 100′ in the wild, can live for several hundred years, with scaly, gray bark. White oak grows over much of eastern North America and is an important hardwood timber tree. Mature leaves are 4-9 inches long and 2-4 inches wide; they are broadly elliptic or obovate in outline and pinnatifid with five to nine pairs of deep to medium lobes with round tips and round sinuses. The upper surface of mature leaves is medium green and glabrous, while the lower surface. Leaves emerge pinkish in spring but mature to dark green. Variable fall color ranges from uninteresting browns to quality shades of dark red. They turn red-purple in the fall before falling off. Because White Oak is monoecious, separate male and female flowers are produced on the same tree Male flowers are produced in greenish-yellow catkins about 2-3 inches long that develop near the tips of last year’s branches. Individual male flowers are 1/8 inch across or less, consisting of an irregularly lobed calyx and several stamens. Greenish red female flowers are produced at the tips of new shoots on very short peduncles. Individual female flowers are 1/8 inch across or less, consisting of a pubescent calyx that surrounds an ovoid ovary with 3 stigmata. The flowers are cross-pollinated by the wind. Fertile female flowers are replaced by acorns that become mature by the fall. Acorns from the white oak are 12 to 2.5 centimeters long. It takes one year for acorns to be fully grown, and they drop off in the fall once they are ripe. Acorns are valuable though the inconsistent source of wildlife food. More than 180 different kinds of birds and mammals use oak acorns as food; among them are squirrels, blue jays, crows, red-headed woodpeckers, deer, turkey, quail, mice, chipmunks, ducks, and raccoons. The root system consists of a taproot and widely spreading lateral roots

White oak is the Maryland, Connecticut and Illinois State Tree. Genus name comes from the classical Latin name for oak trees. The species name of alba means white in reference to the light ash-gray bark. The white oak’s bark is whitish to pale gray, usually with long scales. Wood from the white oak is waterproof, so it’s used to make barrels for storing liquids White oak’s wood is strong and durable for staves for barrels, lumber flooring, and interior woodwork White oak is also an excellent ornamental tree because of its broad round crown, dense foliage and purplish-red to olet purple fall color.

How to use:
We make these suggestions to help you get the best benefit from the herbs that you’re choosing to improve your health. Also we make these ideas and recommendations so that consuming them easier and better fit into your lifestyle by adding them to the food that you already eat.
For the full health benefit, it is best to consume (or use the whole herb in poultices) the whole herb. All of the compounds in the herb act best together, as nature intends. Extracts draw out the most prominent beneficial compounds and may concentrate them. What is not extracted can be helpful in ways that we do not yet understand.

Cut Pieces or Powdered Herb:
There are different ways to use cut pieces or powdered herb.
Food Preparation: You can add powdered or pieces of herb (if the pieces you buy are bigger than you like, a coffee or herb grinder will quickly reduce) to any yogurt, smoothie, apple or other sauces, spreads, salads or other foods more familiar to you that don’t use heat. Heat can be damaging to the beneficial compounds in the herb. Other options like oatmeal, scrambled eggs, pasta sauce, soup, cookies and anything else that fits your lifestyle, but minimizing (by adding near the end of cooking) the heat is helpful.
Also, for children, you can mix powdered herb with honey or glycerin to make paste. The thicker the paste, the more potent and herbal in taste. The sweet taste of honey and glycerin will help medicine go down. The resulting liquid is called an electuary.
For seeds in general, but especially small seeds, it’s best to grind these to break the protective hulls a short time before consumption. This makes all the benefits available, rather than some remaining locked inside the hulls that are unbroken by insufficient chewing.
To make adding herbs even easier, you could add a week’s worth of your chosen herb(s) to an amount of, for example, yogurt that you would eat in a week. Mix thoroughly and eat this each day of the week. So you make once /week and just eat each other day.
Hot Infusion: The basic method for dried herbs and flower is, take 2-3 tablespoons of dried herb in a cup or teapot. Pour hot water over it and cover it with lid for 10-30 minutes. The heat from making tea can degrade some of the beneficial compounds in the herb. This method minimizes this effect. For the full health benefit, it is recommended to consume what is left over after making tea.
Decoctions: Decoctions are suitable for roots, barks, large seeds & berries, and other dense material. The simple way to make decoction is, in a saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of dried herbs to 1 cup of water, Bring the water to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 30-60 minutes with the pot covered. Squeeze out as much as liquid as possible. Best practice is to drink the liquid and also consume the solid material that remains. Herb pieces can also be used.
Powdered Herb:
There are different ways to use powdered herb.
Capsules: HerbsCrafters makes capsules guaranteed to be filled with the pure herb with no filler or any other products. You can also use powdered herb to make your own capsules at home. These capsules are best taken with liquid to aid in digestion and absorption and to ensure it doesn’t stick in your throat.
Poultice: Poultice can be made with an herbal powder and liquid (mostly water) to form a paste which is then applied to the skin. This method is very helpful for skin conditions.
Herbal shot: Powdered herb can be mixed with water, fruit juice or other liquid to make herbal shot.

Tips:
You can sweeten your herbal decoctions with bit of honey, natural fruit juice, stevia leaves powder or licorice root powder.

Precautions:
You should consult with a qualified healthcare practitioner before using any herbal products, particularly if you are pregnant, nursing, or on any medications.
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