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    Medicinal benefits of Wafer Ash

    By s mFebruary 27, 2020Updated:February 27, 2020No Comments4 Mins Read
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    Wafer ash is a shrub common to America, growing most abundantly west of the Alleghenies in sandy moist places and edges of woods and also in rocky places. This handsome shrub is 6–8 ft. high with dark brown branches; the leaves are downy beneath when young; trifoliate and marked with pellucid dots. The June flowers are polygamous, greenish-white, nearly ½ in. in diameter, and of a disagreeable odour; usually four stamens; short styles and the fruit a two-celled samara. The light-brown root bark is wrinkled with a thin epidermis, internally yellowish-white, darkens with exposure; odour peculiar, aromatic; taste bitter. Petelein is its active principle.

    Plant description

    Wafer Ash is a dense and rounded, deciduous shrub or small tree which occurs in open woods, ravines, glades, prairies and thickets. It grows to the height of 10 to 20 feet tall. Bark is thin brownish-gray to reddish-brown in color, smooth to slightly scaly with horizontal lenticels with warty corky ridges on larger trunks. Twigs are light brown covered with fine hair with short fuzzy buds and U-shaped leaf scars. Leaves are trifoliate, compound, shiny and dark green which turns greenish yellow in autumn. Tiny white flowers appears in late spring but not particularly showy. Flowers give way to pendulous seed clusters. Each seed is encased in a thin, winged and circular disc. Seeds are mature to brown in late summer and persist through most of the winter.

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    Leaves

    Leaves are alternate and palmately compound having 3 leaflets on long leaf stalk. Individual leaflets are ovate to elliptical about 2 to 4 inches long. Lateral leaflets are without stalks. Terminal leaflet is on short stalk, shiny blue-green above, paler blue, either with smooth margins and are slightly toothed. Undersides are marked with little gland dots which produce chemical giving off the aromatic.

    Flowers

    Flowers are male, female and sometimes perfect and appear in the spring in terminal compound clusters. Each stalked flower measures ¼ to ½ inch wide with 4/5 narrow greenish-white hairy petals and 4 to 5 stamens on male flowers. Sepals are shorter than petals. Female flowers have single flattened pistil. Flowers have an unpleasant odor.

    Facts of Wafer Ash

    Wafer Ash Quick Facts
    Name: Wafer Ash
    Scientific Name: Ptelea trifoliata
    Colors Brown
    Shapes Round, 0.5 to 1 inch long
    Name Wafer Ash
    Scientific Name Ptelea trifoliata
    Common/English Name Wingseed, Hoptree, Shrubby Trefoil, Swamp Dogwood, Common hoptree, Hop Tree, Pallid hoptree
    Name in Other Languages German: Dreiblättriger Lederstrauch, Gewöhnliche Kleeulme;
    Polish: Parczelina trójlistkowa;
    Lithuanian: Trilapė ptelija;
    English: Common hoptree, Hoptree, Shrub trefoil, Wafer-ash, Common hop-tree;
    Hungarian: Hármaslevelű alásfa
    Plant Size 15 feet in height
    Bark Gray or red brown, smooth
    Leaf Trifoliate, 4-6 inches long
    Flower White, cream, gray
    Fruit shape & size Round, 0.5 to 1 inch long
    Fruit color Brown
    Medicinal part Root bark

    Fruit

    Flowers mature in summer into drooping clusters of 1 inch wide, light brown and round samaras which are wafer thin. Samara contains 2 to 3 brown seeds surrounded by the thin rounded wing which shows many reticulated membranes. It remains on the tree into winter assisting in identifying this tree.

    Uses

    It is used for the same purpose as Quinine and may be tolerated by the stomach when other tonics are rejected. Useful for low fever with gastro-intestinal irritation and typhoid conditions. It has a soothing influence upon the mucous membrane in all cases of debility and during intermittent and remittent chills and fever and febrile diseases where a tonic is indicated. Regarded as a remedy for asthma when tinctured with whisky and taken in doses of 1–2 tablespoonfuls every 2–3 hr. It is very useful as a promoter of the appetite. The leaves and young shoots are anthelmintic and the fruit (samara) aromatic, bitter and a good substitute for Hops. 1 teaspoonful of the root bark, cut small, to 1 cupful of boiling water. Drink 1 cupful throughout the day a mouthful at a time. Of the powder, 10–30 grains. Of the tincture, 1–2 drams.

    Homoeopathic Clinical

    Tincture of root bark—Asthma, Constipation, Dysentery, Dyspepsia, Erysipelas, Gall-stones, Gastralgia, Headache (gastric; bilious), Intermittents, Jaundice, Liver (congestion of), Nightmare, Phosphaturia, Rheumatism, Spleen (affections of), Worms.

    Medicinal uses

    • Root bark is anthelmintic, antiperiodic, antibacterial, tonic and stomachic.
    • Mix it with other medicines in order to add potency.
    • It is used for treating intermittent fevers such as heartburn, malaria, pinworms, roundworms and poor digestion.
    • Apply it externally to the wounds.
    • Use the roots as a tonic for asthmatic breathing, poor appetite and fevers.
    • It is used for chronic rheumatism.

    Culinary uses

    Fruit is used as a substitute for hop for making beer and added to the yeast for rising more quickly for making bread.

    References:

    https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=28992#null

    https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Ptelea+trifoliata

    https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=286752&isprofile=1&basic=Ptelea%20trifoliata

    https://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/a/ashwa078.html

    http://hort.ufl.edu/database/documents/pdf/tree_fact_sheets/ptetria.pdf

    http://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/p/ptelea-trifoliata=hop-tree.php

    https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/st530

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    Wafer Ash Scientific Classification

    Scientific Name: Ptelea trifoliata

    Rank Scientific Name & (Common Name)
    Kingdom Plantae (Plants)
    Subkingdom Viridiplantae  (Green plants)
    Infrakingdom Streptophyta  (Land plants)
    Superdivision Embryophyta
    Division Tracheophyta  (Vascular plants, tracheophytes)
    Class Magnoliopsida
    Subclass Rosidae
    Family Rutaceae  (Rues, rutacées)
    Genus Ptelea L. (Hoptree)
    Species Ptelea trifoliata L. (Common hoptree, hoptree)
    Synonyms
    • Dodonaea trifoliata Trew
    • Ptelea trifoliata f. trifoliata
    • Ptelea trifoliata var. trifoliata
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