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from an external or internal body surface. In the case of a wound or sore, discharge is reduced or stopped, tissue tone improved and healing quickened if the water in which alder bark has been boiled is used as a wash. A moist poultice of the inner bark can be applied to wounds that, bleed profusely. With the use of a mordant (a substance which fixes coloring matter to another substance) such as alum, five colors can be obtained from alder. The bark will producc a tawnyred that changes to black with the addition of copperas (hydrated ferrous sulphate). The fresh wood will give a pinkish-fawn dye. the catkins a green, and the young shoots a yellow color.
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