Traditional Uses: Anti-wrinkle, skin softening, wound-healing, natural colorant, used as an additive to other carriers.

Skin: aids in tissue regeneration, helps heal radiation burns, photo protection (absorbs UV rays), wound-healing, anti wrinkle, burns, skin ulcers, acne, dermatitis. Improves skin metabolism and retards skin maturation.

Digestive: anti-nausea for Chemotherapy, aids duodenal & peptic ulcers, tinnitis, cervical lesions and antioxidant for liver afflictions

The berries appear to be an unsurpassed natural source of vitamins A and E, carotenes and flavonoids and are second only to Rose hips vitamin C content. They are also rich in several other vitamins as well as in more than two dozens of microelements. 27 different minerals

Genito-Urinary/Reproductive: urine flow; aids detoxification; genital herpes.

Nervous/Emotion/Mind: anxiety, stress and related illnesses, aids zona (shingles)(MDR)neuro-muscular problems; insomnia; aids nervous fatigue, relieves physical and mental depression, especially severely depressed; aids with realizing one's potentials, increasing desire for changes; anguish, fear.

Safety Data: non-toxic, non-irritant.

SOURCE: Sheppard-Hanger Sylla, THE AROMATHERAPY PRACTITIONER REFERENCE MANUAL, Tampa, 1998