Viburnum opulus

United States. Hot water extract of the dried rhizome is taken orally as a carminative in flatulent colic and when a warming effect is needed . Wine extract of the dried rhizome, together with Viburnum opulus, Scutellaria lateriflora, Symplocarous foetidus, and Syzygium aromaticum, is taken as an antispasmodic . 

N.A. Viburnum opulus L. V prunifolium L. Hydroquinones, coumarins, tannins, resin.99-102 Antispasmodic, sedative, an astringent. 

M. arvensis, M. officinalis, Menyanthes trifoliata, Peucedanum graveolens Picrasma excelsa, Pimpinella anisum, Stellaria media, Trigonella foenum-graecum, Viburnum opulus, V prunifolium... 

Hydroquinones Chimaphila umbellata, Viburnum opulus, V. prunifolium... 

T. pulegiodes, T. serpyllum, Tilia cordata, T. europaea, Tribulus terrestsi, Trifolium pratense, Tussilago farfara, Ulmus rubra, U. procera, Vaccinium myrtilloides, V. myrtillus, V. oreophilum, Verbena officinalis, Veronica officinalis, Viburnum opulus, V. prunifolium, Viola tricolor, Vitis vinifera, Zanthoxylum americanum, Zea mays... 

Botanical origin Sambucus canadensis Sambucus nigra Viburnum prunifolium Viburnum Lentago Viburnum Opulus var. Americanum... 

Viburnum opulus. Cramp bark high bush cranberry cranberry tree water elder squaw bush snowball bush. Dried bark of Viburnum opulus L., var. americanum Ait., Caprifoliaceae. Habit. Europe, Asia, northern North America, south to Pennsylvania. Constit. Vibumin, bitter resin, tannin, sugar citric, malic, oxalic, and valeric acids. 

Velioglu, Y.S., Ekici, L., and Poyrazoglu, E.S., Phenohc composihon of European cranberrybush (Viburnum opulus L.) berries and astringency removal of its commercial juice. Int. J. Food Sci. Technol., 41, 1011-1015,2006. 

Upton, R. 2000. Cramp hark Viburnum opulus Analytical, quality control, and therapeutic monograph. American Herbal Pharmacopoeia and therapeutic compendium. Santa Cruz, CA American Herbal Pharmacopoeia. 

Uopudlal, isolated from Viburnum opulus, was reported to have hypotensive and smooth muscle antlspasmotic properties. 7 This sesquiterpene dialddiyde decreased arterial blood press ire at 2 mg/kg in dogs. 

Chevreul discovered butyric acid, capric and caproic acids, and valeric acid (delphinic or phocenic acid) in dolphin and porpoise fats, and later in the berries of the Viburnum opulus. He proposed to call spermaceti cetine (Kijrasy whale). On heating it with caustic potash he found that it formed a salt of an acid he had found in other fats (really palmitic acid), but instead of glycerine he obtained a new neutral substance which he later called ethal (from the first syllables of the words ether and alcohol ), and from an analysis concluded that it is a compound of ethylene (hydrog ne percarbure) and water. Dumas and Peligot showed that it is cetyl alcohol, C16H34O. 

Isol. from opulus iridoids extracted from the leaves of the ornamental shrub Viburnum opulus (common snowball). 

Viburnum pruni- Silica gel G folium L. Viburnum opulus L. (Cortex) Chloroform-acetic acid-acetone (75 + 25 + 10) 100,213, 262 [112]... 

R. Upton, ed.. Cramp bark (Viburnum opulus), American Herbal Pharmacopeia, Santa Cruz, CA, 2000. 

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