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Toothache Tree
By Ann MacDonald
Toothache Tree (Zanthoxylum) - A large family of trees and shrubs, in the main too tender for this country, the few hardy kinds coming mostly from China and Japan, with one of minor interest from N. America.
Toothache Tree
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americanum , is known as toothache tree. Due to the anaesthetic power of its alkamide constituents, the plant is effective in suppressing toothache temporarily if unripe fruits or the wood of young branches are chewed.
Synonyms: X, toothache bush, toothache tree, toothbrush bush, yellow wood, suterberry, northern prickly ash (southern prickly ash is Zanthoxylum L).
Order: Rutaceae
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This species is often confused with Hercules club or toothache tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis), which is more treelike and usually larger. Its leaves are only once compound like those of a hickory, not lacy like the Aralia's.
Young, a former county agent who grew up in the Ouachita Mountains, once told me that as a child he heard the tree called "toothache tree.
paralytic affections and nervous headaches and as a topical irritant the bark, either in powdered form, or chewed, has been a very popular remedy for toothache in America, hence the origin of a common name of the tree in the States: Toothache Tree.
Fruits: Follicles red, smooth, up to 1/4 inch long; seeds spherical, shiny, black, up to 1/6 inch in diameter.
Notes: This tree is sometimes called toothache tree because of the numbing effect of the inner bark when placed against the gum.
While Acmella oleracea is a herb, known as Toothache Plant, Zanthoxylum armatum is a tree known as Toothache Tree or, more commonly, Winged Prickly Ash. In Hindi it is known as Darmar, Tumru, Timroo, Trimal.
 See also: Ash, Prickly ash, May, Green, Pepper
  
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