Strawberry timber

Strawberries forest - low herbaceous perennial plant of the Rosaceae family. The fruit of various shapes, called "berry", formed from fleshy and succulent receptacle.

It grows everywhere - in the forest glades, clearings, in sparse forests. But the most abundant fruits in the first 2 years on fresh cuttings. Wild strawberry spread across Russia and Kazakhstan. In these places, but in more open spaces that can meet the green strawberries (strawberries steppe). Only in the forests of European part of growing musk strawberries (strawberries), and the Far East and in parts of Eastern Siberia can be harvested strawberries east. As a cultivated plant, known most often under the name "Strawberry", distributed a large number of artificially bred varieties with hybrid origin.

As medicinal plants mentioned in the literature already in the XIII century and was used in folk medicine for a long time for most various diseases. Latin name for strawberry "fragariya Veska" comes from the verb "fragare - fragrant and is associated with an amazing flavor of its fruits; species definition characterizes the size of the fruit - small».

And so far she has not lost its popularity. In a scientific medicine drug to use its fruits and leaves: the fruit - as a therapeutic agent for hypertension, atherosclerosis, gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers, atonic constipation, arthritis and other violations of salt metabolism in the body, leaves - as a weak diuretic in gout, stones in the liver and kidneys, and beriberi, uterine bleeding and colds. Strawberries contain this "bouquet" of biologically active substances: vitamins, organic acids, sugars, essential oils, tannins, flavonoids, a complex of trace elements, which desperately needs our body.

has long been the wild grown strawberries and cultivars used in cosmetics. Girls and women face smeared with bedtime gruel of its berries, and then washed with milk, giving the skin a velvety and freshness. France recommended to wash after applying a mask of strawberries with rose water. For oily skin in the form of masks recommended to add whipped protein; for a dry skin squashed berries add a teaspoon of almond butter, cream and starch. Modern cosmetologists and dermatologists often prescribe berries and leaves of strawberry. With strawberries you can, for example, to get rid of freckles and acne, eliminate dark spots. Berries it - try a folk remedy for eczema. For any skin suits strawberry (Strawberry) Water, if it 1 time a day to lubricate the face and wash off after 10 minutes with water at room temperature. In perfumery widely used strawberries (strawberries) for the preparation of lotions, creams and soaps. The aqueous extract of the leaves is used in the form of lotions, rinses and washes for oily face and scalp.

But we should not forget that some of the strawberries is a painful allergic reaction, accompanied by a rash and itching. It is obvious that people who suffer a reaction to strawberries, to apply it is contraindicated.

Propagated vegetatively strawberries, with "whiskers" that grow from the axils of bottom leaves in the form of whiskers long, rooting at the nodes of creeping shoots.