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The healing properties of Wild strawberries

A very popular berry wild forest strawberry has been known for a long time as a plant with beneficial properties. But only biology, pharmaceuticals and medicine can accurately formulate the true reason for usefulness. Wild strawberries have an exquisite taste and persistent aroma, for which the plant has received universal recognition as the best food berry. But the Wild Strawberry plant has many advantages as a medicinal plant. It is much more pleasant to consume medicine in the form of tasty berries and get nutritional and emotional pleasure from it than from pharmaceutical drugs with their chemical effects and side effects.

To use Wild strawberry as a healing remedy, you need to know which parts of the plant are rich in medicinal substances, and what l healing effects consuming the plant has.

Wild strawberries are one of those rare types of berries that nature has endowed with various healing properties.

Everything in the Wild Strawberry plant is useful: roots, leaves, fruits and seeds. The roots are rarely used for medicinal purposes, although they contain a high supply of Iron and tannins .

The leaves of the Wild strawberry plant are themselves medicinal raw materials. Strawberry leaves contain a high concentration of ascorbic acid, tannins and essential oils. Wild strawberry leaves are collected together with petioles and used both fresh and dry to prepare drinking infusions and baths. Since wild strawberry leaves have a pronounced aroma, teas, infusions and baths brewed with strawberry leaves have the effect of an aromatic relaxant: they relax, soothe the nervous system, and relieve fatigue. Decoctions of Wild strawberry leaves are not recommended for people with unspecified diseases of the digestive system, since the high concentration of tannins and essential oils can irritate the gastrointestinal mucosa. The tannins in strawberry leaves can cause unwanted constipation.

Wild strawberry seeds are no less useful than berries and leaves. In addition to the fact, that the seeds stimulate intestinal function (increase peristalsis), they are a source of high content of essential oils with a slight antiseptic effect.

The pulp and juice of wild strawberries is a storehouse of useful and medicinal substances. In terms of the content of natural acids, Wild strawberries take first place, sharing it with blackberries. The plant contains a wide range of acids that have both nutritional and cosmetic value: Ascorbic, Citric, Malic, Phosphoric and very rare organic salicylic acid, which plays an irreplaceable role in the treatment and prevention of skin diseases and diseases closely related to metabolic disorders.

The fruits of wild strawberries contain a very high concentration of Iron, Carotene and Manganese, which is useful for the treatment and prevention of diseases associated with a deficiency of these substances in the body.

It is not without reason that cosmetologists prepare skin masks using the fruits of cultivated Strawberry varieties - these are masks with an almost complete set of organic acids used in cosmetology and cosmetic medicine. It is very important to understand that wild strawberry berries in dry form or those that have undergone heat treatment (jams, canned Wild strawberries, compotes and similar products) are not suitable for using wild strawberry fruits as food in order to obtain a medicinal result. The healing effect of Wild strawberries is observed when they are eaten raw and fresh. Then all the necessary beneficial substances for medicinal purposes act on the body with the desired result.

Wild strawberries are eaten regularly and in large quantities per season for healing purposes. Wild strawberries are a seasonal medicine.

Dried or frozen Wild strawberries are suitable as tea leaves for vitamin infusions and work well in situations where it is necessary to support the immune system and survive a cold. For this reason, berries are prepared for healing purposes in raw form (canning without heat treatment), or in dried or frozen form to support the general health of the body. When dried and frozen, wild strawberry fruits do not lose their aromatic properties and greatly enhance tea drinking, bathing or showering with ethereal aromas.

Essential oils of Wild strawberries are volatile compounds, so to preserve them, the berries are frozen in sealed bags or plastic containers, and after drying, stored in airtight glass or porcelain containers.

Don’t forget that wild strawberries can be an allergen. For this reason, if you consume berries raw and notice red spots on the skin, rashes or itchy skin, you must stop using the berries for healing purposes.

Several recipes highlighting the beneficial properties of the Wild strawberry plant will help diversify the menu for those who are tired of eating the fruits of this plant raw.

Wild strawberry cocktail

Washed wild strawberries are beaten with a blender or mixer with milk in a proportion of 1.5 volumes of fruit to 1 volume of milk (for example, one and a half glasses of strawberries plus a glass of milk for two servings of cocktail). Add sugar to taste.

Wild strawberry juice

Wild strawberries in the amount of 7 ounces are kneaded and poured with boiled water in the amount of one and 18 ounces, cooled to 80 degrees Celsius (176 degrees Fahrenheit). The fruit drink is cooled to room temperature and stored in the refrigerator. Drink fruit drink chilled, without heating it over fire.

Wild strawberry cream

For 3.5 ounces of wild strawberries, take 7 ounces of cream with 35% fat content, four tablespoons of powdered sugar (or to your own taste), 0.35 ounces of gelatin. Gelatin is pre-dissolved in water (3.5 ounces). Whip the cream with half a dose of powdered sugar until it reaches stable peaks, smash the strawberries in a blender (mixer) or grind to a puree consistency. Sprinkle the Wild strawberry puree with the remaining powdered sugar, mix thoroughly and combine all the ingredients into one mixture (whipped cream, swollen gelatin and berry puree), carefully mixing the ingredients until smooth and trying the cream mass not to besiege. The cream is cooled in the refrigerator until the gelatin hardens.