Fragaria vesca
HRB-0283Entry “STRAWBERRIES” in the 1850 textIn Culpeper’s 1652 first edition
Old claims, quoted verbatim: not medical advice. A warning sits above the claims and never hides them; no warning does not mean safe, only that no source here has flagged the plant.
Historical correspondence. Ruled by Venus, by Culpeper. A traditional astrological assignment, kept apart from the modern evidence; it is not a finding.
The berries are excellently good to cool the liver, the blood, and the spleen, or an hot choleric stomach;
The same also being drank stays the bloody flux and women’s courses, and helps the swelling of the spleen.
to refresh and comfort the fainting spirits, and quench thirst:
yet it is not amiss to refrain from them in a fever, lest by their putrifying in the stomach they increase the fits.
They are good also for other inflammations;
The water of the Berries carefully distilled, is a sovereign remedy and cordial in the panting and beating of the heart, and is good for the yellow jaundice.
The water of the Berries carefully distilled, is a sovereign remedy and cordial in the panting and beating of the heart, and is good for the yellow jaundice.
The berries are excellently good to cool the liver, the blood, and the spleen, or an hot choleric stomach;
The berries are excellently good to cool the liver, the blood, and the spleen, or an hot choleric stomach;
The same also being drank stays the bloody flux and women’s courses, and helps the swelling of the spleen.
The juice dropped into foul ulcers, or they washed therewith, or the decoction of the herb and root, doth wonderfully cleanse and help to cure them.
Nicholas Culpeper, The Complete Herbal, a new edition (London: Thomas Kelly, 1850). Project Gutenberg eBook #49513. SRC-CUL-1850
Quotations are verbatim from the 1850 text, line breaks joined. Modern research and the European regulator’s verdict on each claim are on the Concordance page, kept apart from this historical record.