Jugulans Pericarp, Green Walnut Hull

Akhrot Sabz (Unani)
Picture Della Materia Medicinale,
Andrea Valuassori, 1562

Picture Krauterbuch, Lonitzer, 1578

Picture Botanische wandplaten, 1904–1914

Picture Kohler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, 1887

Botanical name:


Jugulans regia

Parts used:


Green Walnut shell

Temperature & Taste:


Warm, dry. Bitter

Classifications:


2O. ASTRINGENTS
3C. ALEXIPHARMICS

Uses:


1. Resists Poison:
-potently resists Poison, Plague and Epidemic diseases

2. Astringes to Stop Leakage:
-Astringent: Diarrhea, Leukorrhea
-excess Sweating
-Prolapses

3. Clears Phlegm, Resolves Masses:
-Scrofula, Tumors and Cancer (Modern TCM has used Green Walnut for Cancer)

4. Clears Deficient Heat:
-Diabetes
-Hectic Fever in Children, burn the entire nut with its shell to ashes; dose is 1 scruple

5. Emetic:
-sometimes used as an emetic

6. Externally:
-fresh Wounds and chronic Ulcers (Distilled water topically)
-Eczema (Tincture topically)
-applied to Leucoderma


Dose::
Decoction: 5–15 grams
As a wash externally, half oz. decocted in 500mls water.
Picture

Main Combinations:


1. Fever, Epidemic diseases, Poison and Toxin, Green Walnut shells with Rue, Blessed Thistle, Calendula, Balm, Angelica (as in Treacle Water)
2. Excessive Sweating, Green Walnut shell, Sage, Hyssop
3. Leucoderma, fresg Green Walnut shell, Sulphur (equal parts), beat together and apply (TCM)

Compound Infusion of Walnut Rinds:
i. Dried Walnut rind, Walnut leafs (4 handfuls each), infuse in Water sufficient to give 8 pounds of strained infusion, let stand for an hour and add muriate of Lime (1 ½ oz.). Mix.

Pollini’s Decoction:
Stimulant, tonic, Used for Leprosy, Eczema, obstinate Syphilis. Also used externally.
i. Walnut rinds (10 oz.), Sarsaparilla, China root, Sulphuret of Antimony, Pumice stone (half oz. each), Water (64 oz.). Boil to one half. (Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, Augustin, 1822)
ii. Dried Walnut hulls (1 oz.), Sarsaparilla, China root (2 oz. each), Sulphuret of Antimony (4 oz.), Pumice stone (2 oz.), Water (20 lbs.). Boil to one half, strain and add Potassium subcarbonate (2 drams). (Pharmacopoeia medici practici universalis, Bruxelles, 1817)

Cautions:


The Green Nuts offend the Stomach, increase Choler [Bile] and cause Headaches; best used preserved, or as a Tincture etc.

Main Preparations used:


Tincture, Extract, Distilled Water

1. Tincture of Walnut Rinds:
i. Walnut rinds, fresh and sliced (6 oz.), French Brandy (2 lbs.). Digest in a gentle warmth for 4 days, filter.

2. Extract of Green Walnuts:
i. Walnuts gathered before maturity; bruise in a stone mortar adding a little water; express the juice and immediately evaporate in a water bath, constantly stirring towards the end with a spatula. (Dispensatorium Pharmaceuticum, 1777)
ii. Walnut rinds (1 part), Water (6 parts); Boil together, evaporate the strained decoction. (Pharmacopoeia Wirtembergica, 1798)

3. Distilled Water of the Green Walnut shell:
  ‘Of Excellent use to cool the heat of Agues … also to resist the infection of the Plague … also cools the heat of green wounds and old ulcers, and heals them, being bathed therewith …’ (Culpeper)