The noni fruit and other parts of the plant also are used medicinally, including the leaves, bark, flowers, and roots.
The leaves contain a fragrant volatile oil.
Witch hazel bark and leaves.
Although chiefly valued for its decorative fine-grained wood, the tree's bark, root, leaves, and nuts all have medicinal properties.
The red-black berry is the most used part and the leaves and blue violet flowers also contain medicinal properties.
The ripe, berries and needles from the tree are used in herbal medicine. The tree's therapeutic properties stem from a volatile oil found in the berries.
The tree's bark contains an oil with many active ingredients; waxes, fatty acids, and other less familiar compounds.
Apricot seed is the small kernel enclosed within the wood-like pit at the center of the apricot fruit.
The flowers and berries are used most often, although the leaves, bark, and roots are also considered to have therapeutic effects.
The American white oak, Quercus alba, and the English oak, Quercus robur, have bark with similar healing qualities.
Every two years the trees are cut to just above ground level. The bark is harvested from the new shoots, then dried. The outer bark is stripped away, leaving the inner bark, which is the main medicinal part.
The inner white bark. Maude Grieve recommended in her 1931 book, A Modern Herbal, that only 10-year-old bark should be harvested.
Many different plants are used for medicinal purposes. People often thing of herbs and herbal medicines when they think of using them to treat illness. Many tree barks and other plants can also be used.