Prickly Ash

In addition, the berries of the prickly-ash tree, which have a fragrant flavor and produce a pleasant tingling numbness on the tongue and lips, are used in many different ways. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Then icefish (shirauo) — tiny, almost translucent fish with buggy little black eyeballs which can be had for only a few weeks in early spring — served in sizzling white-sesame oil with Kalamata-olive paste and sprigs of newly budded prickly-ash leaves (kinome). ❋ Tosches, Nick (2007)

-- In this disease give bitters of rattle-weed root, prickly-ash bark of the root, and prickly-sumack bark of the root an equal quantity of each, digest them in whiskey, ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

-- Give bitters composed of a half pound of prickly-ash bark of the root, one-fourth pound of rattle-root, and two ounces of blue-root, digest the whole in one gallon of whiskey -- of this the patient should drink freely three times a day, or what the stomach will bear. ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

Persons who are addicted to Cholic should use balm of gilead buds, spikenard-root, prickly-ash bark of the root, ❋ Richard Foreman (1849)

Then icefish (shirauo) - tiny, almost translucent fish with buggy little black eyeballs which can be had for only a few weeks in early spring-served in sizzling white-sesame oil with Kalamata-olive paste and sprigs of newly budded prickly-ash leaves (kinome). ❋ Unknown (2009)