GENERAL DATA
Plant Parts: Fruit, pit, stalk, bark, leaves, tree resin
Cultivation Mode: Wild collection/Cultivated
In Manufacturing: Pharmaceutical, food, confectionery, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, herbal tea, jam, dessert, pickles, oil (from pit), haircare, skincare, cosmetics, canned fruit
PRODUCT NAME IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
Persian Name: آلبالو، آلوبالو، قراصیا/ Albalou, Aloubalou, Qarasya
German Name (Deutschland, Austria, Switzerland): Sauer-Kirsche, Sauerkirsche, Sauerkirschenbaum, Strauchige Sauer-Kirsche, Weichsel, Weichselkirsche, Sauerkirschen getrocknet, Schattenmorelle
French Name (France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec): Cerisier acide, Cerisier aigre, Griottier, Griottier acide, Cerisier commun, Cerisier à cerises acides, griottier, Cerise acide, Cerises acides, Cerises séchées
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About Prunus Cerasus
The leaves of the Prunus cerasus tree are relatively large and wide, sometimes have a rhomboid shape and a tip, and their side is saw-shaped.
The white and large flowers of this tree grow in bunches and each flower has five almost drop-shaped petals, sometimes circular, slightly wrinkled and completely separate.
The fruits are small, spherical, and shiny, and each one is attached to the stems by a thin and elongated stick. These fruits are green at first. But after fully ripening, they turn red.
The core of Sour Cherry is hard, spherical, and smaller than a pea, and is located in the middle of the fruit.
Clear, yellow-brown resin is secreted from the trunk of this tree.
Sour Cherries Chemical Constituents
Malic acid, polyphenol, 3-caffeoylquinic, 5-caffeoylquinic, p-coumaric acid. Catechin and epicatechin flavanols. Glycosides of quercetin and kaempferol flavonols.
The red color of tart cherries is a result of presence of anthocyanins and antioxidant.
Sour Cherry Temperament
Sour cherry is cold and dry at the first of second degree. Sour-sweet cherries are in the first degree of cold. Sour cherry tree resin has a hot and dry temperament.
Dried Sour Cherries stalk decoction is diuretic.
The bark of Prunus cerasus tree also removes phlegm from the chest. Decoctions or liquid compounds made from the bark of the tree are pain relievers.
Eating Prunus cerasus tree gum with cold water cures old cough, cut sticky humors, so it’s useful for relieving chronic coughs. Rubbing it on the eyes is useful for increasing eyesight and removes itching of the eyelid, and rubbing it on the skin is cleansing and brightening.
Sour Cherry Dosage
Sour cherry fruit from 7 to 9 pieces.
Its tree resin is from 2 to 4 grams.
Liquid compounds made from the bark of its tree trunk from 2 to 5 grams.
Sour Cherry Side Effects
It’s not good for cold temperaments.
Sour Cherry Modifiers
Honey.
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