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Sunday, 02 July 2006 |
Herbal cure for Strangury & urinary diseases
of Solanaceae order is a native of Europe and United States. The fruits are available in Indian City-bazaars. The straw berries contain malic and citric acids, a volatile matter, sugar, mucilage, pectin, woody fibre and water. They are said to act on the liver and are diuretic and laxative, useful in strangury, stone and in kidney and urinary diseases; even diabetics are allowed to eat strawberries, for the sugar they contain is levulose and not hurtful. They are invaluable in fever-
ish conditions. Hoffman recommends them in haemop-tysis and some authors have thought them useful in dropsy. Aldo Castellani & K. C. Browning (5. M. Journal, May 6, 1922) tried the uses of an ethereal extract of strawberries in 5 grain-doses given 3 or 4 times a day in cases of typical sprue in conjunction with the usual milk diet and alkaline treatment and found that it hastened the improvement of the general condition of the patients. The leaves are useful in gout. The root is astringent and used in diarrhea. Dose of the berries is 5 to 6; of the succus 1 to 2 ounces; of the tincture 1 to 2 drachms. A tea made of the leaves checks dysentery. Linnaeus is said to have cured himself of gout by the use of this fruit. Strawberries are a remedy also for anaemia and rheumatism as they contain salicylic salts. They are found to be rich also in alkaline and mineral salts, in lime, and in phosphates. They contain 0.05 per cent of iron mingled with manganese and therefore easily assimilable so as to highly enrich the blood.
Physalis Flexuosa or P. Somnifera----See Withania Somnifera. |
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