Cherry is best known as an ally for use during coughs, as it is a very excellent anti tussive. I've found the bark tea or tincture works amazingly well for the sort of cough tthat makes you red in the face (red as a cherry?) from coughing so hard, or the night time cough that gets worse when you try to lay down to sleep. Wild cherry and lobelia tincture, or a tea of cherry bark and licorice calm that right down and let you get to sleep.
Barking the small branches of the chokecherries , the house fills with the sweet, bitter almond aroma of the prunus species.
now the cherries...mmmmm...mostly used in jam and syrup, as a tasty bioflavanoid rich fruit, makes a lovely syrup. Mmmmm, mix that syrup with cold club soda, and you have yourself a cherry soda...add a drop of vanilla or two, cherry vanilla soda! double delicious!
I also put up some cherries in brandy with a touch of sugar for sipping in late winter. And plan to use some of the syrup mixed with cherry bark tinctured in brandy, for a tasty and medicinal cough syrup. Who said medicine had to be yicky?