#INDIAN BUBBLE GUM STRAIN FULL#

The bark can be used to make a medicinal tea. Unripe fruit can be crushed and soaked in alcohol to make a medicinal tincture. METHOD OF PREPARATION: Slashed to the cambium, sap will leak out and harden. Found from southern New England to Florida west to mid-nation.

#INDIAN BUBBLE GUM STRAIN FULL#

TIME OF YEAR: Flowers later spring, fruits in summer, persists in winter.ĮNVIRONMENT: Prefers deep, moist bottomland and full sun. Fruit, compound, round, 40 to 60 capsules, each with one or two seeds.

Leaves have substantial amounts of tannin. dark green, glossy turning brilliant orange, red, and purple the autumn. Leaves alternating, usually have five (but sometimes three or seven) sharply pointed palmate lobes. IDENTIFICATION: Liquidambar styraciflua: A medium-sized to large tree, growing to 65-155 feet (20–35 m) with a trunk up to 6 feet (2 M) in diameter, can live to 400 years. Green Deane’s Itemized Plant Profile: Sweet Gum To read a scientific study on the medicinal side of the species go here. Two more tidbits: The sap is still used to add flavor to smoking tobacco and is also available at the pharmacy as an ingredient in the “compound tincture of benzoin.” Liquidambar styraciflua: Liquid Amber Gum Flowing. Ambar is Arabic for amber (the color of the dried sap.) Styrax is Dead Latin for gum, fluxus for flowing. (lick-wid-AM-bar sty-rass- ih-FLOO-uh.) Liquidus is Dead Latin for liquid. It usually involves soaking crushed green Sweet Gum fruits in alcohol to make a red tincture.īotanically the Sweet Gum is Liquidambar styraciflua.

As I say that is all outside my pay grade. As for the preparation, dosage, and consult a doctor or herbalist. With some flus older folks have slower immune responses and may have partial immunity from previous infections. They have very strong and immediate immune systems that overwhelm the body while fighting the disease. In some flu infections it is your body’s response to the flu that kills you rather than the flu directly. The flu doesn’t reproduce which shortening the duration of the infection and thus shortening or lessening the symptoms, which in some cases of the flu is what is deadly. It is believed Shikimic acid can inhibit the protein. Now, how does shikimic acid work? To reproduce the virus needs to break out of the cells it is in. First, how do you tell infertile sweet gum seeds? Fertile seeds are black with wings on either side, infertile seeds are yellow and wingless.

Indian bubble gum strain