Dandelion( Taraxacum), Burdock( Lappa) and just enough Rhubarb( Rheum) to assure regular bowel evacuation. Dose of the tincture, 5 – 15 drops in water three times a day.
STRAWBERRY LEAVES Fragaria virginiana, Fragaris vesca, Duchesne, Fragaria arnericana, L.( U. S. Agricultural Department, Appalachia, 1971)
Externally: A strong decoction to cleanse and heal eczema and other skin conditions. Homoeopathic Clinical: Tincture of the ripe fruit; infusion of the root— Anasarca, Biliousness, Chilblains, Convulsions, Erysipelas, Gonorrhoea, Psilosis( or Sprue), Tape worm, Tongue( strawberry; swollen), Urticaria, Weaning. Russian Experience: Zemlianika, Strawberry, grows in wooded settings throughout Russia and is highly praised as dietetic and medicine. However, some people’ s systems cannot tolerate Strawberries and they can cause skin rash, itching, redness, etc. If there are indications of this, treatment should be avoided in any form, tea jam, pie, etc.( Saratov University, 1962). Folk Medicine use the fresh and dried leaves and berries for anaemia, general weakness, bleeding, tape worm, kidney and bladder, children’ s diarrhoea( Atlas, Moscow, 1963). Also of use for kidney and liver stones, female bleeding, scurvy and vitamin deficiency. To some extent for reducing high blood pressure.
SUMACH
Rhus glabra, L.( N. O.: Anacardiaceae)
Common Names: Smooth Sumach, Indian Salt( powder on the berries), Scarlet Sumach, Mountain Sumach, Dwarf Sumach. Features: There are several species of Sumach and care should be taken in their identification, as some are poisonous. But this, the blue Glabrum, may be easily distinguished by the colour acidity of the berries and their appearance in cone-shaped bunches. R. glabrum is a shrub 6 – 15 ft. tall, consisting of many straggling branches covered with a pale grey bark, having occasionally a reddish tint. The leaves are alternate, consisting of from six to fifteen lanceolate, acuminate, shining and green above, whitish beneath, turning red in the autumn. When the green leaves or limbs are cut or broken, a milky juice exudes. The flowers are greenish-red on spikes followed by long bunches of hard, red downcovered berries, extremely sour to the taste, which is due to malate of lime.
They can be found growing in thickets and waste grounds of Canada and the United States, flowering June to July, the fruit maturing in September and October. The berries should be gathered before the rain washes away the acid properties which reside in their external, downy efflorescence. Medicinal Parts: The bark and fruit. Solvents: Boiling water, alcohol.