Wild strawberry

Useful properties of a wild strawberry

Wild strawberry from the point of view of traditional medicine is a valuable polyvitaminic means which helps at diabetes, avitaminosis, a bad metabolism. In the people wild strawberry is called still pozemniky and the berry-picker.

Berries of a wild strawberry contain cinchonic, apple, lemon also other organic acids, essential oils, vitamins, tannins, phytoncides, carbohydrates. Gather wild strawberry in June and July, in the morning or at the end of the day.

Leaves of a wild strawberry are also useful, and collect them when the wild strawberry blossoms then dry up. Infusion from leaves possesses sedative, vasodilating, tonic, fortifying, antisclerous, hemopoietic action.

Such useful properties of a wild strawberry are also noticed: antiinflammatory, diuretic, sudorific, wound healing, knitting, it raises a uterus tone, increases its reductions, slows down a cordial rhythm, strengthens amplitude of reductions of heart.

Use of leaves, wild strawberry berries

For preparation of the vitaminized fortifying means from wild strawberry berries, and its leaves prepare broth: 20 g of the crushed dry raw materials fill in 200 ml of hot water, boil 10 min., two hours insist, and later, having filtered, drink three times a day 20 ml. The same means is recommended at arrhythmia, atherosclerosis, ischemia, bronchitis, an urolithiasis, in particular by preparation for a removing calculus in the surgical way.

At an anemia, intellectual overfatigue, diseases of a spleen infusion on wild strawberry leaves which is prepared helps and accept in the same way.

At a hypertension, a coloenteritis, ulcers of a GIT accept such infusion: strawberry leaves fill in with boiled water, but do not boil, and just insist two hours. Accept means also on 20 ml 3-4 times a day. Lotions with this infusion help at the hemorrhoids complicated by bleeding.

At diseases of bile-excreting channels infusion on leaves of a wild strawberry is drunk to food by 4 times a day on 100 ml.

At disturbance of a salt metabolism, bladder diseases, bed wetting, pathologies of kidneys as diuretic accept broth from strawberry leaves and berries. Prepare broth in the same proportions: 200 ml of water are the share of 20 g, for preparation medicinal raw materials are boiled by about 10 min., insist two hours, and, having filtered, part with boiled water to initial 200 ml. Accept means on 20 ml three times a day.

Note efficiency and spirit tincture on strawberry leaves. For its preparation 6 g of leaves fill in 200 ml of vodka, insist week then they filter. Drink tincture at arrhythmia, heart failure, deficit of carotene and vitamin C till 30-50 of a drop three times a day. Such tincture on a wild strawberry helps and during epidemic of catarrhal diseases as the means strengthening immunity.

Outwardly gruel from fruits of wild strawberry is used for healing of small wounds, by treatments of eczema: the crushed wild strawberry is put on a gauze and foment on sore points.

Contraindications

Despite sweet taste and useful properties the wild strawberry cannot be eaten and to use decoctions from it in large numbers since it is strong allergen, and at specific features of an organism can cause an itch, rash, vomiting, dizziness, erubescence. Similar symptoms seldom demand serious medical intervention, usually pass independently after the termination of the use of berries.

With special care have to accept means on a wild strawberry pregnant women and children, at them the risk of development of undesirable reactions is increased.

Is not recommended to take medicine from a wild strawberry of subjects who has a stomach juice hypersecretion, frequent gastric and hepatic gripes are observed, the inflamed appendicitis is diagnosed.

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