Strawberry has long been used for medicinal purposes.
It was used to treat anemia and to lower high blood pressure. Strawberry was also used in the treatment of stomach complaints, as a tonic and as a laxative. Intestinal worms were thought to be expelled by eating strawberries. The leaves were used to treat dysentery and the root was thought to be a remedy for diarrhea.
Kidney complaints were also treated with it, as were gallstones. It was used as a diuretic, and gout was treated by it.
Externally, it was used cosmetically to improve the complexion. A cut strawberry rubbed on sunburn was meant to relieve it.
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