Strawberry leaves: properties and contraindications

Strawberries are a delicious and healthy dessert that is used to cooking in the form of sweet jam or jam. It turned out that it is suitable not only as a food product, but also as a therapeutic agent against many diseases. It is used in the preparation of decoctions and infusions. This makes its healing properties almost limitless.

Wild strawberry is a representative of the family of rosaceous berries, short in stature with red fruits. Its stem is straight with a short rhizome and curly shoots covered with round leaves. It has large white flowers that are starting to bloom from the first days of May. It fructifies in the early summer from June to July.

Finding strawberries is very easy. It usually grows on roadsides, mountains, and in the forest. The spectrum of growing areas is wide. It starts from the regions of Russia to Asia.

The picking of a leaf of a strawberry occurs during its flowering, when it contains the maximum amount of useful substances. Only two small leaves are removed from one bush. This is due to the fact that if you remove more than two sheets from a plant, it will cease to grow and bear fruit. When cutting them, use only sharp scissors.

Raw materials are dried in the open air or in a dryer at t up to + 70 degrees. When it becomes brittle, then ready for use. They put him in glass jars or paper bags. Be sure to put only in a dry place where there is no moisture. Otherwise, it may begin the process of decay.

For a start, it is worthwhile to study the properties of the dugout and its composition.

• It is used as an infusion and is successfully used as a vitamin remedy in the diet. When cooking recipes in their composition usually include - the fruit, stem and leaves.
• Due to the beneficial structure of the berry content, the immunity is improved. This allows the body to resist and easily tolerate colds. Infusions help.
• The pectins contained in it, cleanse the body from rotting products. That allows the digestive system to work much better, faster and fully digest food. In addition, the appetite increases.
• Accepted for atherosclerosis, violation of water - salt balance.
• Berry has a positive effect on the circulatory system, so it is useful to add to the diet for women with anemia, uterine bleeding.
• Strawberry is made from leaves of strawberry.
• Containing glucose together with fructose is included in the daily use as a prophylactic agent in the event of various ocular problems.
• The flavonoids contained in it cause anti-cancer effects. The inclusion of strawberries in the menu can reduce the risk of cancer.
• Due to the consumption of berries, which contain a sufficient amount of potassium and magnesium - the heart works well.
• Berries are able to reduce blood sucrose, therefore, are excellent as a food product for patients diagnosed with diabetes.
• Strawberries provide assistance during stress or insomnia, with other nervous diseases.

Fruits and leaves have a diuretic effect, contributing to the removal of excess fluid from the body during edema. They have a number of actions:

• anthelmintic action;
• antiviral protection;
• choleretic effect;
• blood formation.

Broths and infusions of strawberry leaves do not pose a threat to humans and are completely safe. There are allergic reactions to the components of the plant. Allergies often manifest as:

• rash;
• pruritus;
• vomiting and mild dizziness.

Temporary manifestations after the end of the course of receiving infusion of strawberry leaves pass.

True, there may also be some deviations with an increase in gastric acid. For this reason, the tool is taken with caution.

In the presence of such pathologies, treatment with strawberries should be stopped, and then go to the clinic for medical care. This can seriously affect the state of health if you do not consult a doctor in time.

It is necessary to consult with a specialist before you start consuming strawberry leaves. After all, their use in conjunction with drugs causes unwanted side effects. Only with their proper application can problems be avoided. Although this is quite a rare case.

Pregnancy has contraindications to the use of strawberry leaves, and you need to take this into account. Treatment with such a remedy during this period is prohibited.

In order to fully preserve useful substances in strawberry leaves, they are collected in a special way. A similar process is carried out by the following method:

• cut the leaves, as they should be rinsed with water, dried before drying;
• half-timber is laid out in boxes and covered with slightly soaked cloth;
• in a warm place they are stored for almost 10 hours at a temperature of 25 or 26 degrees;
• the sheet is dried for 40 minutes at high and high t +100 C.

To tea for a long time did not lose useful qualities, it is worth brewing it in a white porcelain teapot, wrapped with a towel.

Medicinal raw materials must be properly collected. In this way it saves medicinal substances throughout the year.

• Strawberry leaves begin to prepare for collection during flowering.
• First, they should be washed, shaken, put on a cloth, dried.
• After the leaves of the berries, tied in bunches and hang in a dry place.

• When the raw material is dry, it is crushed.
• When buying medicines based on strawberry leaves, you should check their quality.
• They are washed with water before use.
• Cropped sheets are stored in paper bags, and whole herbs - in bunches (suspended up).

Forest strawberry leaves are harvested in some regions since the beginning of spring, and in others in the middle of the spring season and lasts all summer. A much greater effect from the use of the plant can be obtained if it is carried out during the flowering period. During this period, the leaves contain more nutrients. The plant begins to bloom in May — June. In each region or regions it begins in different months. Three or four leaves are removed from one bush.

If the periods take strawberry leaves as decoctions or infusions, it will improve health. Occurs:

• normalization of the heart;
• pressure decreases;
• excess cholesterol is displayed;
• the body's resistance to adverse environmental effects increases, immunity is developed, and thermoregulation improves.

To eliminate ulcers, gastritis, colitis, it is useful to prepare an infusion of leaves, which will also improve the condition of the thyroid gland.

Broth drinking patients suffering from inflammation in the joints, excess salt, rheumatism, dermatitis, rash, neurosis.

To do this, you need ingredients:

• 2 tbsp. spoons of leaves;
• a glass of boiling water.

Preparing composition:

• The leaves are placed in a bowl and pour boiling water.
• Boil the composition in a water bath for 5 minutes.
• Cool down 3 hours.
• Drink in three doses of 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Making a cup of strawberry tea is pretty easy. Soak them in hot water to preserve powerful nutrients and enjoy a fragrant drink. To do this, you need ingredients:

• 1 tsp leaves;
• 1 cup boiling water.

Preparing:

• Put the leaves in a bowl and pour boiling water over them. Allow to boil in boiling water for about five minutes.
• Remove the leaves from the tea.For taste, you can add honey so that the drink becomes sweet, drink hot or chilled.

Ingredients you need:

• 110 grams of leaves;
• 100 ml of boiling water.

Preparing:

• The leaves are brewed in boiling water and infused for 15 minutes.
• Drink three times this composition of 1 tbsp. spoon per day.

Ingredients you need:

• 35 g leaves:
• 200 ml of boiling water.

Preparing:

• In a bowl pour a portion of the leaves, pour boiling water over them, cook for about 20 minutes.
• It is necessary to withstand the solution for 3 hours and drain.
• Add a little liquid to the initial volume.
• Drink in three doses of this infusion of 1.5 st. spoon every day.

Composition:

• 1 tbsp. spoon of leaves;
• a glass of boiling water.

He is preparing so.

• A small portion of leaves is put into the bowl and filled with boiling water.
• The contents are cooked on low heat for 10 minutes.
• Leave the mixture on the stove to languish for 2 hours in a closed bowl and filter after.
• Take in three doses of 1 tbsp. spoon a day.

Composition:

• 20 grams of leaves;
• a glass of boiling water.

The method of preparation does not distinguish its complexity.

• They take a small bowl, add dry leaves to it and pour the contents with boiling water. Keeps infusion 2 hours with the lid closed.
• After, it is filtered. The resulting infusion is drunk daily during exacerbations of hemorrhoids, stomach diseases 3 times 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Ingredients:

• 200 g of leaves;
• boiling water.

Preparing:

• In a bowl, pour leaves with boiling water, and insist for half an hour.
• This means before taking the procedure is poured into the bath.

It is taken by patients with heart disease, as well as tincture, for good immunity during colds.

For this you will need:

• 1 tsp leaves;
• a glass of vodka.

Preparing:

• The leaves are mixed with vodka.
• Insist 7 days.
• Take tincture of 25 drops of diluted water three times a day.

Strawberries are used in cosmetology. Its leaves have their beneficial qualities. A decoction of them, together with dairy products allow you to bring freckles. Make masks. With such a mask, they begin to disappear, and the skin to clear. The entire removal course takes some time. The procedure is carried out 2 times a week until the complete disappearance of freckles.

Fresh strawberries can be added to facial masks. With various ingredients that will only increase the effect. After masks, the skin becomes elastic, wrinkles are smoothed, but before consumption it is advisable to check the test for allergies.

How to collect and brew the leaves of strawberry, described in detail in the video below.