Barberry bark

Composition Powder. Finely pulverize 2 pounds barberry bark, 1 pound hemlock bark, 1 pound ginger, 2 ounces cay-enuo pepper, and 2 ounces cloves. Mix them together. This is an excellent remedy for weak stomach, dyspepsia, boiling water. After stamlmg for a few moments, drink tho contents- (Some omit the hemlock bark.)... 

Barberry Bark. Berberis hark jaundice berry ... 

Barberry root is a yellow-red dye that has been used since prehistoric times it is extracted with hot water from the stems, bark, and roots of Berberis vulgaris, a bush that grows indigenously in Europe as well as in North America. The coloring matter in the dye is the organic compound berberine. Silk and wool can be dyed directly with barberry root, yielding a yellow color however, for dyeing cotton, a mordant is required to attach the dye to the substrate fibers. 

Barberry (pipperidge bush) is a vernacular name for Berberis vulgaris (the European barberry), but it can also refer to Mahonia aquifolium and Mahonia nervosa. In the USA only the Mahonia species have had official status as a source of barberry, but Berberis vulgaris is said to serve similar medicinal purposes and to contain similar principles. Its root bark yields the quaternary isoquinoline alkaloid berberine and several other tertiary and quaternary alkaloids. Berberine is also found... 

For the record, Hoxsey s herbal mixture for internal cancers included the following (Moss, 1992, p. 161 Walters, 1993, p. 97) potassium iodide, cascara (Rham-ms), licorice (Glycyrrhiza), red clover (Trifolium), burdock root (Arctium), barberry (Berberis), stillingia root (Stillingia), pokeroot (Phytolacca), prickly ash bark (Zan-thoxylum), and buckthorn bark (Rhamnus). All are listed in Hartwell (1982), and some occur in other herbal remedies for cancer. It has been commented that orthodox scientific research has by now identified antitumor activity in most of the plants used by Hoxsey (Walters, 1993, p. 97). 

Berberidis radids cortex Barberry root bark Berberis vulgaris T. 

Most safety concerns reported for barberry are based on studies of the compound berberine and other alkaloids. Data regarding isolated compounds may not apply directly to products or extracts made from the root or root bark. 

Dzhumabaev TZ, Ibragimov II, LutfuUin KL (1970) Effect of the sum of alkaloids in the root and bark of the stem of the oblong barberry on the blood coagulation system. Meditsinskii Zh Uzbekistana (8) 22-25... 

The isoquinoline (9-44) or benzyltetrahydroisoquinoline skeleton, respectively, can be found in the tetracyclic alkaloid berberine, also called umbellatin (9-45). Together with related alkaloids, berberine occurs in all parts of the European barberry shrub Berberis vulgaris, Berberidaceae) as the main component, especially in the cortex, but also in leaves and immature fruits. Barberry alkaloids are carriers of the characteristic yellow colour of barberry wood and bark, but do not practically influence the colour of edible berries. The mildly poisonous cortex of the roots, containing 12-15% of alkaloids, was used in the past as a drug for medical purposes (the bark of stem contains 5.5-8% and the bark of branches about 3.5% of the mixture of alkaloids). The main components of the root bark are quaternary bases berberine (9-45), jatrorrhizine, columbamine, pahnatine (9-46) and tertiary bases oxyacanfhine (9-47) andberbamine (9-48). 

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