Cranberry
What other names is Cranberry known by?
American Cranberry, Arandano Americano, Arandano Trepador, Cranberry Extract, Cranberry Fruit, Cranberry Fruit Juice, Cranberry Juice, Cranberry Juice Cocktail, Cranberry Juice Concentrate, Cranberry Powder, Cranberry Powdered Extract, European Cranberry, Grosse Moosbeere, Kranbeere, Moosebeere, Mossberry, Ronce d'Amerique, Trailing Swamp Cranberry, Tsuru-kokemomo, Vaccinium Macrocarpon, Oxycoccus Macrocarpos, Vaccinium oxycoccos, Oxycoccus Hagerupii, Oxycoccus Microcarpus, Oxycoccus Palustris, Oxycoccus Quadripetalus, Vaccinium Hagerupii, Vaccinium Microcarpum, Vaccinium Palustre.
What is Cranberry?
Cranberry is a fruit. The fruit is used to make medicine.
Possibly Effective for...
- PREVENTING urinary tract infections (UTIs).
Possibly Ineffective for...
- Treating type 2 diabetes.
Insufficient Evidence to Rate Effectiveness for...
- Skin healing, pleurisy, cancer, chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), reducing urine odor, and other conditions.
Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database rates effectiveness based on scientific evidence according to the following scale: Effective, Likely Effective, Possibly Effective, Possibly Ineffective, Likely Ineffective, and Insufficient Evidence to Rate (detailed description of each of the ratings).
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