Chinese Lantern

Bladder Cherry
ChineseLantern
Japanese Lantern
Physalis
strychnos halikakabos.

Other varieties:

peruviana
somnifera*
viscosa
Winter Cherry
Alkegengi officinale
Coqueret
Judenkirsche
Schlutte
Cape gooseberry
Strawberry Tomato.

Physalis is a name from the Greek for bladder (phusa).
Warning! Somnifera leaves have been found with Egyptian Mummies!

For Gout, take eight berries at the change of the moon!

(fruit) Vitamin C
organic acids
including malic and citric
a bitter substance physaline ( a yellow
bitter principle)
pectinase
glucose
pectin.

(Fruit, rarely leaves)

aperient
diuretic
anti-pyretic
mild sedative
nutritive
laxative
formerly used to treat renal calculi
rheumatism
arthritis and gout

Fruit eaten fresh and used for jams.

(Whole Plant)

In diuretic, wine, Lithal,(a fruit extact to which is added Lithium)

Used after scarlet fever(folk)

*P. somnifera is a narcotic version of the familiar Chinese Lantern.

Its' leaves are steeped in warm castor oil and applied externally to carbuncles and other inflammations.

The seeds are used to coagulate milk

For gout, take eight berries at the change of the moon

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