- Also known as (or relevant to)
- Family
- Rosaceae
- English Names
- Natural Habitat
- Europe (including Great Britain)
- especially Germany and Netherlands
- Orient
- Part(s) Used
- Folia Mespili
- Fructus Mespili
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- Constituent(s)
- fruit: tannin
- malic acid
- citric acid
- gum
- pectin
- mucilage
- invert-sugar
- cellulose
- Action
- leaf: astringent; fruit: nutritive
- astringent
- diuretic
- tonic
- alterative
- blood cooling
- reducing an enlarged spleen
- a strong decoction of the unripe fruit is good to stop violent purging; seed: diuretic
- used against gravel. The fruit is eaten when it is on point of decay.
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