Green strawberries
Green strawberry is one of the plants of the family called Rosaceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Fragaria viridis L.
As for the name of the green strawberry family itself, in Latin it will be: Rosaceae Juss.
Description of green strawberries
Green strawberry is a perennial herbaceous plant, endowed with a thick brown rhizome, which will be densely covered with the remains of dead leaves. The horizontal creeping shoots of this plant are quite short, and the flowering stem is erect and densely pubescent. It is worth noting that such a stem will only slightly exceed the basal leaves or may be equal in length. The leaves are compound and trifoliate, they are bluntly toothed and covered below with dense silky hairs. The apical leaflet will be ovate and the lateral leaflets are sessile.
Green strawberry flowers are painted in white tones, their diameter reaches twenty millimeters, they will be endowed with numerous pistils and stamens. The length of the petals is five to ten millimeters, they are round, obovate or spherical-obovate. The petals of green strawberries can be colored either white or yellowish-white, only at the top they will be reddish or entirely lilac-pink.
Green strawberries bloom at the end of spring and the first half of summer. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Siberia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. For growth, the plant prefers forest edges, steppes, dry slopes, dry and flooded meadows.
Description of the medicinal properties of green strawberries
Green strawberries are endowed with very valuable healing properties, and it is recommended to use the leaves, fruits, rhizomes and flowers of this plant for medicinal purposes. Leaves and flowers should be collected in May-June, and fruits as early as June-July, while rhizomes should be collected around September-October.
The fruits of this plant contain tannins, sugar, carotene, pectin, malic, ascorbic, folic, quinic, citric and salicylic acid, as well as anthocyanin compounds, essential oil, salts of cobalt, iron, phosphorus, calcium, boron, manganese, zinc, as well as phytoncides and fiber. The rhizomes and roots of green strawberries contain tannins. The leaves contain tannins, ascorbic acid, alkaloids, carotene and polysaccharides.
It should be noted that the infusion of the fruits and leaves of this plant has a pronounced diuretic effect. Juice, decoction and infusion of green strawberries have antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic and mild laxative effects. The rhizomes and leaves of this plant are endowed with hemostatic, diuretic, astringent and anti-inflammatory effects.
Fresh juice from the berries of this plant should be taken one third of a glass four times a day for sclerosis.
As an antipyretic, it is recommended to use the following remedy based on green strawberries: to prepare it, take one tablespoon of dry berries of this plant per glass of boiling water. The resulting mixture is infused for thirty to forty minutes and then carefully filtered. Take this remedy one glass three times a day before meals.
For eczema, you should prepare the following remedy: take two tablespoons of dry crushed leaves in half a liter of boiling water, leave for two hours, and then filter very carefully. Take this remedy one third of a glass four times a day before meals.
