Cascara Sagrada

Cascara Sagrada Bark 

Cascara Sagrada Bark is harvested for traditional herbal supplements, brewed as a very bitter tea, or mixed with other flowers or fruit to chaste the bitter taste. Native Americans called the herb sacred bark and prepared the aged bark as a tea. By the mid-19th century, the pharmaceutical company Parke-Davis began producing Cascara-based products for export to Europe.