Strawberries - there are associations with the summer, a glade covered with high green grass, and among the grass delicious aromatic berries, some sweet, some sour. These are the most pleasant memories, for those who at least once collected strawberries. How tasty and nice, and most importantly useful! Do you know what useful properties strawberries have? If not, then this article is for you "Medicinal plant of strawberries: from what is useful?"
So, the medicinal plant of strawberries, from what it is still useful? Well, firstly, it's dietary berries, it is recommended to eat people with a stomach ulcer, with gastritis and other problems associated with the gastrointestinal tract. It improves metabolism, helps with colds, strawberry infusion rinses the throat with sore throat. Strawberry broth helps with diarrhea, is a diuretic, choleretic, antiseptic. Decoction of strawberries remove stones from the bladder. In folk medicine strawberries are used completely from the tip of the leaf to the tip of the root. Fresh strawberries are used to heal wounds, for this you need 2 tbsp. Spoon the crushed leaves with 1 cup of boiling water, then insist for 10 minutes and filter. Drink half a glass in the mornings and evenings. In diseases associated with the kidney is recommended every day on an empty stomach to eat 5 tbsp. spoons of strawberries. With constipation and stomach ulcer, as well as gastritis, it is advised to drink infusion of strawberries. For this you need 3 tbsp. Spoons of fresh berries pour 1 cup of boiling water, and insist 4 hours. Take a quarter cup 4 times daily before meals. Infusion of dry berries advised to drink in diabetes, avitaminosis, colds, with kidney and liver pain.
As for the beneficial substances found in strawberries, vitamin C, K, B5, B6, manganese, potassium salts, strontium, calcium, phosphorus, manganese, iron, copper, magnesium, folic acid, zinc, cobalt, molybdenum are present in strawberries , chromium, aluminum, barium, selenium, nickel, iodine, boron, bromine, lead, fatty acids, antioxidants, which, by the way, prevent skin aging and development of cancer tumors. There are fewer vitamins in the leaves than in berries. They contain glycosides and flavonoids, organic acids. By the way, the gland in the strawberry contains more than in apples or pineapples. To that, calcium is also much more concentrated in strawberries, which is so in demand for children for good growth and development. In strawberries a lot of fiber, it is very tender in comparison with other fruits, it is very useful for gastric secretion, improves the functioning of the intestines and removes excess cholesterol from the body. Gather berries in June and in July, at the end of the day or in the morning, as berries collected in hot weather or wet berries, easily spoil. In order to properly dry the berries, first dried in the air in the shade, letting off excess moisture, and then dried in the oven at a higher temperature, the shelf life of dried berries 2 years. Roots are excavated in autumn, washed in cold water, and dried in a cool room.
What helps the infusion of a strawberry medicinal plant? Infusion from the leaves of this medicinal plant is a diuretic and hemostatic agent for bleeding. Helps with angina if you rinse your mouth. For this you need 1 tbsp. Spoon the crushed leaves with a glass of boiling water, and insist 45 minutes and filter. Drink 1 glass 2 times a day. The roots of strawberries help with jaundice and hemorrhoids. Fresh leaves are applied to wounds and used for skin diseases. Before you start using the leaves of strawberries you need to hold them in the shade for several hours, so that they will soften and partially lose moisture. Then they need to be rinsed in the palms until they become sticky and put in a box, covered with a damp cloth and leave for 9 hours, and then they are dried in the sun or in the oven. That's how they need to dry properly. And only then you can use them.
Berry strawberries are used for cosmetic purposes to whiten the skin of the face. It also eliminates acne, pimples and spots. To do this, you just need to rub the mashed fruits of strawberries on your face. From fresh berries you can prepare a lotion for oily and combination skin of the face, a glass of fresh berries pour a glass of vodka, a month to insist at room temperature, in a dark place, to filter and wipe the skin of the face. Fresh strawberry juice is used for anemia, chlorosis. The juice of strawberry tones, acts as an anti-inflammatory, restorative, spasmodic. Fresh juice is useful in diseases of bones and joints, uterine bleeding. Acts as an appetite stimulant. Leaf juice is recommended for insomnia, tuberculosis, asthma. As I said, strawberries prevent the development of cancer, for this you need to drink a decoction of the whole plant half a cup six times a day. When hypertension drink infusion crushed dry leaves, pour 20 grams of leaves with a glass of boiling water, insist 2 hours, filter and drink 1 tbsp. spoon 4 times a day. Strawberries also excrete worms of various kinds from the body. Strawberries are useful for gums and teeth, if you brush your teeth with berries, crushing them on a toothbrush, and the gums will become stronger, and your teeth whiter.
The medicinal plant of strawberries is useful not only in folk medicine and folk cosmetology, but also in cooking. From it prepare jam, jelly, compotes, juices, jelly, freeze fresh fruits, and with all this, all the beneficial properties of berries remain. Tea from brewed strawberries improve the work of the heart, normalize blood pressure, disappear swelling.
I want to warn that the use of a large amount of strawberries for people with allergic inclinations is prohibited. When itching or other manifestations of allergies, you should urgently consult a doctor, and stop using strawberries.