Useful properties of Wild strawberry
Wild strawberry
Wild strawberry - is a herbaceous plant of the family Rosaceae. Strawberries are a perennial plant height is about 15-20 cm Rhizome short, oblique, with numerous, thin adventitious roots. Stems are of two kinds: one thin, recumbent (whiskers), and others are erect, flowering with leaves. The leaves are large, trifoliate, toothed. The flowers on long stalks, white. Fruit - a false, incorrect called berries, hung, red. Flowering begins in May and bloom until July, the fruit ripens - in June or July. . It grows in the forests of rare, scrublands, grassy slopes, meadows and dry grasslands.
Harvesting.
In order to use medicinal leaves and fruits in dried or fresh. The leaves are harvested most of the summer, they need to pluck with long petioles. Drying the beams in limbo in the attic, in a well-ventilated area out of direct sunlight. Berries need to dry very quickly, put in the dryer or in the oven at a temperature of +60-65 C hold until it will dry. Strawberries can be stored up to 2 years.
The chemical composition.
In the fruit of strawberries have a lot of vitamin C (up to 92 mg%), vitamin B6, carotene, sugar, a little vitamin B1, malic, quinic, citric acid, salicylic acid and tannic acid, antitsianovye connections, pectin, a bit of minerals, fiber (up to 4 %) and volatile. The leaves are rich - ascorbic acid, some alkaloids. At the root of a lot of tannins.
Useful properties.
In medicine, the strawberry is good as a dietary remedy for illness of the heart, kidneys and liver, even as a source of vitamin C in the gall - and kidney stone - stone diseases and gout. In folk medicine, has enjoyed success as a diuretic and diaphoretic for colds, diarrhea in children and anemia. In large quantities prescribed strawberries as a restorative remedy for inflammatory diseases of the stomach, for regulation of the intestine. It stimulates the appetite and quench your thirst. Strawberry drink tea at high temperatures, colds, in diseases of the gallbladder, sclerosis, goitre, tuberculosis of the lungs, coughing, as well as in scurvy.
Contraindications.
Strawberries are usually well tolerated, but do not abuse it for allergies.
Wild strawberry - is a herbaceous plant of the family Rosaceae. Strawberries are a perennial plant height is about 15-20 cm Rhizome short, oblique, with numerous, thin adventitious roots. Stems are of two kinds: one thin, recumbent (whiskers), and others are erect, flowering with leaves. The leaves are large, trifoliate, toothed. The flowers on long stalks, white. Fruit - a false, incorrect called berries, hung, red. Flowering begins in May and bloom until July, the fruit ripens - in June or July. . It grows in the forests of rare, scrublands, grassy slopes, meadows and dry grasslands.
Harvesting.
In order to use medicinal leaves and fruits in dried or fresh. The leaves are harvested most of the summer, they need to pluck with long petioles. Drying the beams in limbo in the attic, in a well-ventilated area out of direct sunlight. Berries need to dry very quickly, put in the dryer or in the oven at a temperature of +60-65 C hold until it will dry. Strawberries can be stored up to 2 years.
The chemical composition.
In the fruit of strawberries have a lot of vitamin C (up to 92 mg%), vitamin B6, carotene, sugar, a little vitamin B1, malic, quinic, citric acid, salicylic acid and tannic acid, antitsianovye connections, pectin, a bit of minerals, fiber (up to 4 %) and volatile. The leaves are rich - ascorbic acid, some alkaloids. At the root of a lot of tannins.
Useful properties.
In medicine, the strawberry is good as a dietary remedy for illness of the heart, kidneys and liver, even as a source of vitamin C in the gall - and kidney stone - stone diseases and gout. In folk medicine, has enjoyed success as a diuretic and diaphoretic for colds, diarrhea in children and anemia. In large quantities prescribed strawberries as a restorative remedy for inflammatory diseases of the stomach, for regulation of the intestine. It stimulates the appetite and quench your thirst. Strawberry drink tea at high temperatures, colds, in diseases of the gallbladder, sclerosis, goitre, tuberculosis of the lungs, coughing, as well as in scurvy.
Contraindications.
Strawberries are usually well tolerated, but do not abuse it for allergies.