Jan 3 • Plant Profiles
Prickly Ash
Prickly Ash
Zanthoxylum Spp.
Prickly Ash is quickly becoming one of my favorite herbs to work with. With uses ranging from pain relief to supporting elimination routes for sicknesses, this herb is a great addition to anyone’s toolbox.
Known commonly as the Toothache Tree, Hercules Club or Tickle Tongue, Prickly Ash has been a medicinally significant since early Native American and colonial times. Earning its common name earnestly, the bark can be chewed to offer pain support when dealing with a toothache. It does have another action as a sialogogue which increases the production of saliva and aids digestion.
Actions:
Stimulates Circulation
Anti-infective
Lymph System Support
Heating
Emmenagogue
Immune System Stimulant
Analgesic
Antirheumatic
Prickly Ash can be used fresh or dried in a tea, decoction, oil, salve, tincture, powder, capsule or even just chewed.
If used fresh the herb can become goopy in water extractions and may be more useable dry for some applications. Alcohol extractions seem to do best at around 50% ABV.
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Prickly Ash
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