STRAWBERRY (green strawberry, raspberry)
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A low plant with silky-white, appressed-hairy trifoliate leaves, large white flowers. The fruit is almost spherical, pink-red above or on one side, the rest is greenish-white, aromatic, sweet.
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Distributed in the forest-steppe and steppe zones of Siberia and the Caucasus. Bred in gardens, in greenhouses.
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Medicinal raw materials are fruits (berries), which contain a lot of sugar (mainly glucose), organic acids, tannins, iron, manganese, ascorbic acid. A lot of ascorbic acid and strawberry leaves.
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In folk medicine, berries are taken for scurvy, fever, headache. Berries are highly valued as a diaphoretic and dietary remedy.