The third major ingredient was the dried bark or berries of Xanthoxylum americanum, or prickly ash, added to help with diarrhea and intestinal cramps.
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (also called pepperwood, Southern prickly ash) or Zanthoxylum americanum (Northern prickly ash).
In 2012, a Pennsylvania distillery introduced a bitters called Bartram's Bitters that uses prickly ash bark as one of several botanical ingredients.
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis | Zanthoxylum americanum | Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides | Solanum americanum | Mezium americanum |
Zanthoxylum americanum Mill. – Toothache Tree, Northern Prickly-ash (Eastern and Central United States)