Slippery Elm Bark Is A Gut Healing Super Food
Here’s why…
The slippery elm tree (Ulmus rubra) is found in the eastern part of the US. Slippery elm is one of the best known medicinal tree barks. The inner bark of slippery elm is used for medicinal purposes.
This inner bark is ground into a powder and made into food, poultices and lozenges. This is a nourishing herb assisting everyone from babies to the elderly because of its excellent healing and strengthening abilities.
What Is Slippery Elm?
Slippery elm has a history of use that goes back thousands of years, the Native Americans used the inner bark for many issues. They moistened the bark to use as a bandage and made a porridge for the ill, elderly and children.
Healthy slippery elms can live up to 200 years and average 60 to 80 feet in height. North America’s slippery elm trees are currently impacted by a number of diseases that are a problem for the American elm (Ulmus americana) including Dutch elm disease and elm phloem necrosis, which is also called “elm yellows” disease. These diseases have become so injurious and widespread that slippery elm often doesn’t have the chance to reach full size and old age.
Stripping the live trees for the medicinal inner bark has also heavily impacted the wild populations of…
