Fragaria Vesca

It is well known that many persons are unable, to eat strawberries, and the

poisonous effects resulting from them on those who are sensitive to their action have been

utilised in homceopathy. Faintness; suffocation like apoplexy; convulsions and death have

resulted; general anasarca, and especially swollen tongue. The well-known "strawberry tongue"

• ▸is an indication for its use.
• ▸Dr.
• ▸Burnett gives it as "pippy tongue.
• ▸" An infusion of the root is used

for drying up the breasts in women who wish to wean their children; it diminishes the size of the

breasts and dries up the milk. Profuse viscid sweat has been observed. Lippe mentions:

"Tapeworm. Pain in chilblains in hot weather." In old physic Fragaria vesca (in decoctions of

leaves, root, or fruit ripe or unripe, or combinations of these) had a very large place assigned to

it. It is commended by W. Salmon as a wash for sore-mouth; as a hemostatic arresting the

menses and stopping "bloody-flux;" swelling of the spleen; many forms of skin eruption and for

"clearing the complexion." In two instances I have known indulgence in strawberries to revive

symptoms of gonorrhoea in men who thought themselves cured. A number of cases of sprue or

• ▸psilosis have been cured by a diet of strawberries ad libitum (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxxiv.
• ▸440).

Tongue swollen; strawberry tongue.

Tongue swollen so that it hung from the mouth.—Pippy or strawberry tongue.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen.—Vomiting followed by relief—Stomach and abdomen

distended.—Violent colic.

Small intermittent pulse.—Failure of the heart's action and prolonged, leaving the

patient weak and languid. (Death occurred later.)

Neck very much distended with fine veins.

24. Generalities—Swelling of the whole body.—Swelling of the whole body with

faintness—Complete prostration—Convulsions.

Urticaria; petechial and erysipelatous eruptions. Swelling of whole body.

• ▸Anasarca.
• ▸Biliousness.
• ▸Chilblains.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Erysipelas.
• ▸Gonorrhcea.
• ▸Psilosis (or

• ▸Sprue).
• ▸Tapeworm.
• ▸Tongue, strawberry; swollen.
• ▸Urticaria.
• ▸Weaning.

Compare: Apis. Calcarea.