{"id":569,"date":"2009-08-10T08:01:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T15:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glossary.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=569"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:09:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T21:09:27","slug":"slippery-elm-bark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/slippery-elm-bark\/","title":{"rendered":"Slippery Elm Bark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inner bark of the tree, Ulnus umbra.\u00a0 The bark was used by Native Americans and early European settlers\u00a0to the US\u00a0as a laxative, antiseptic, analgesic and emollient.\u00a0 It&#8217;s high in mucilage, a sticky, gelatinous substance containing polysaccharides and glycoproteins that coat and sooth irritated tissues.\u00a0 This property of Slippery Elm accounts for its medicinal uses\u00a0as a <a href=\"http:\/\/umm.edu\/health\/medical\/altmed\/herb\/slippery-elm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">treatment for\u00a0sore throats, colitis and wounds<\/a>.\u00a0 It also contains oligomeric procyanidins, <a href=\"https:\/\/clinicaltrials.gov\/ct2\/show\/NCT00742287\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory\u00a0activity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Slippery Elm bark powder or extracts are sold as standalone supplements, or as ingredients in &#8220;cleansing&#8221;\/&#8221;detox&#8221; supps.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also a component of the\u00a0unproven alternative cancer &#8220;cures&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/cancertopics\/pdq\/cam\/essiac\/Patient\/page2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Essiac and FlorEssence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inner bark of the tree, Ulnus umbra.\u00a0 The bark was used by Native Americans and early European settlers\u00a0to the US\u00a0as a laxative, antiseptic, analgesic and emollient.\u00a0 It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[118,277,342,407,444,603,671,883,957],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}