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GASTRONOMIC USE
MEDICINAL USE
Plant for a future can no take any responsinility for
Fruit-raw a mealy pleasant
any adverse affects from a professional before using
a plant medicinally
taste small and insipidly sweet
of little value. The fruit is
about 10 mm in diameter with
a single large seed. Seed-raw
of cooker. An oil is obtained
from the seed
The leaves and fruit are astringent, lenitive and
stomachic. The leaves are gathered in early summer
and dried for later use
The fruit partuculary before it is fully ripe is
considered to be more effective medicinally a
decoction of both leaves and fruit is used in the
treatament of amenorrhoea heavy menstrual and
intermenstrual blading and colia
The coction can also be used to astringe the mucous
menbranes on the treatament of diarrhoea dysentery
and peptia ulcers