Strawberries have an incredible aroma in comparison with more common for many strawberries. A forest inhabitant likes to hide in remote glades, forcing a person to suffer a lot to collect a handful. The ancient Romans and Greeks also wrote about fragrant berries.
Strawberries can also be called a home healer, since all parts of the plant are useful properties. Traditional healers use not only berries, but also leaves, flowers, and even roots. To harvest strawberries you can dry berries, in this case they retain almost all the useful substances, do it in the shade.
Useful properties and contraindications to strawberry
Fleshy berries are known not only for their fragrance and sweetness, but for their vitamin and mineral composition. Strawberries can boast the presence of vitamins B, C and E, and even in it there are zinc, iron, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus , copper, potassium, etc.
Though from berries it is possible to prepare various jams, jam and compotes, the maximum advantage is allocated fresh strawberries. It helps improve the digestive system and improves appetite. Doctors recommend eating useful berries in the presence of gastritis, colitis and anemia. Another strawberry helps to lower the level of cholesterol in the blood and improve the activity of the cardiovascular system. Therefore, it is recommended to pamper yourself with berries, especially to people of age. Strawberries strengthens and tones up the body, it is useful to eat with insomnia and beriberi. Shredded berries can be used, as compresses with radiculitis and with various rashes.
If you manage to get into the forest and find the wild strawberry, remember the beneficial properties of the leaves of the plant. Collect the leaves in the fall, they should be clean, free of stains and dry ends. On their basis, you can prepare strawberry tea, which can be used as a general restorative. Given the content of ascorbic acid, the drink will help with cold and inflammatory processes.
On the beneficial properties of berries strawberries talked, it remains to understand the contraindications. It is not recommended to use forest berries for people with high acidity and in the presence of an individual intolerance to the product. Some people experience an allergic reaction. Harm berries can bring to people with renal and hepatic colitis.
What is useful for strawberries for women?
The leaves of the wild strawberry have already been used for many years before giving birth. The substances contained in them increase the tone and contractile functions of the uterus. All this helps to significantly facilitate the process of the birth of the baby. Even for the fairer sex strawberries are useful in the content of antioxidants, which slow the aging process and help improve the skin condition.
It is also worth mentioning the use of strawberries in cosmetics. Berries have a whitening effect that helps to cope with freckles and age spots. They also purify, moisturize and increase the elasticity of the skin.
Use strawberries and for weight loss, due to some properties:
- Berries are low-calorie foods,
so on 100 g there are only 34 calories. - The composition includes fiber, up to 12% of the daily rate, which works as an absorbent, collecting all harmful substances and decomposition products in the intestine, and removing them from the body.
- Thanks to the content of a large amount of calcium, the berries improve the metabolism , which is also important for losing weight.
- Berries act as a diuretic, helping to remove excess fluid, which is the cause of edema and cellulitis.
If you have the opportunity and free time, then immediately go to the forest to collect fragrant and useful berries.