Garden and wild strawberries are not only delicious, but also useful berries. It is used not only as a treat, but also as a medicine. However, not everyone knows that not only aromatic berries are used for medicinal purposes, but also strawberry leaves, which also have healing properties, which were confirmed by analysis of the composition of substances found in its leaves.
What substances are found in strawberry leaves?
In the leaves of strawberries found a lot of useful substances, among them:
- Folic, citric, cinnamic, malic acids;
- tannins;
- essential oils;
- fluorine, iron, potassium , magnesium.
In addition, the beneficial properties of strawberry leaves are enhanced by the presence of vitamins A, C, K and PP in them. This remarkable complex of medicinal substances allows the use of leaves as a medicament for the treatment of a number of diseases and disease states.
What can be treated with leaves:
- iron, the content of which exceeds forty times its presence in grapes, prevents the development of anemia;
- infusions on the basis of leaves are an excellent means for replenishing the body with vitamins, have a stabilizing effect on the state of the nervous system;
- leaves of wild strawberry show therapeutic properties in the fight against diabetes and in the restoration of the correct metabolism;
- the positive effect of the drug on admission for the prevention of atherosclerosis ;
- in the period of autumn-winter outbursts of catarrhal diseases, the intake of strawberry leaf preparations is an effective sweatshop;
- leaves of strawberries are widely used for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases: their therapeutic properties contribute to the weakening of the intensity of the disease in colitis, gastritis, gastric ulcer, as well as improving the digestive tract and increasing appetite; it should not be forgotten that preparations from the leaves of this plant have contraindications.
When is it not recommended to use strawberry leaves?
Restrictions on the intake of drugs from the leaves are serious enough: in addition to individual intolerance, contraindications apply to patients suffering from hepatic colic, increased acidity of the stomach, during an exacerbation of attacks of appendicitis, as well as during pregnancy and lactation. Leaves of wild strawberries, showing medicinal properties, may have contraindications if dosage of intake is disturbed.