Wild Cherry is a twin sister to pale Peruvian bark, especially when combined with dogwood bark. I have known the two in many cases to accomplish the same results. Wild Cherry is a tree that grows all through the middle states, and is a remedy within the reach of almost everybody that needs it. The inner bark on the south side of the tree is most efficient, from the fact that it has the sunlight to develop it and give it its full growth, sap, and normal condition. It matters not which way you cut the bark, up or down. Such ideas as that are simply superstitions, and there is no reality in such nonsense or opinions. The bark of the wild cherry tree has attracted the attention of many men to investigate its therapeutical properties. It is so common that everyone can obtain it, and it should have a place on every medical mantelpiece in our land. Many a coffin has been manufactured from out of the tree, and many a good man saved from his premature coffin by the bark of the tree; so it is evident that wild cherry serves two purposes in this world.

Medical properties and uses. -- Wild Cherry is one of the most valuable remedies in its medical sphere. It is a fine tonic. It calms irritation of the mucous membrane and nervous excitability. It diminishes the force of cardiactive action. I knew a man in Franklin township, Clermont County, Ohio, who had an exceeding bad cold, and thought to break it by drinking a quart of hot tea made from the wild cherry bark. It broke the cold and came near breaking the man's life. The action of his heart fell to 45 beats per minute, and was very feeble in its character, and the man was completely prostrated and did not feel entirely free from its effects for three or four days. The man's name is Squire F. M. Myers. It is a fine remedy for debility of the stomach, where there is irritation of the mucous lining and nervous irritability. It is a good remedy for fevers, and for consumption where the patient is troubled with night sweats, and is fretful and nervous, and wakeful at nights. It may be used in several different forms. To make a tincture, take the inner bark and cut in fine pieces, fill a jug or bottle half full of the pieces and add good whisky or diluted alcohol, let it stand fourteen days and then it is ready for use. Dose, tablespoonful every three or four hours. I prefer the cold water preparation. Take the fresh bark and cut it up fine and soak in cold water twenty-four hours, then you have a fine cold tea of wild cherry bark. Dose of this, a common swallow every three or four hours. It is better in all cases of chills and fevers, or in other words, ague, to combine an equal part of dogwood bark with it, and commence twelve hours before the time for the chill, and take a big swallow of the cold tea every two hours till the time for the chill. I have known this preparation to break hundreds of cases of ague. Boiling the bark seems to destroy its medical virtue to a very considerable extent, consequently it should never be boiled into a syrup. It may be used in the powdered form, and is good. Dose of the powder, what will lay on a silver dime, in water.