Health Tips - Strawberry (Resbhari)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

A stout soporiferous herb with long arching runners, leaves thick, blunt toothed, bluish green more or less glossy above and pale below, flowers white, borne in small clusters; fruit varying in shape, fairly large, scarlet, covered with achene’s which do not project much outside the surface. A small genus of low perennial creeping herbs distributed in the wild state in the temperate and sub-tropical regions of the world. Four species are recorded in India, Viz. F, daltoniana, f. nilgerrensis and F.vesca. The Majority of the cultivated forms have now been shown to be derivatives of F.chiloensis, a native of the pacific coast of north and South America. Strawberry is essentially a crop of the higher elevation in India and its cultivation is confined to certain parts of Kashmir, Punjab, U.P, Bombay, Madras and Mysore. The leaves are mildly astringent and diuretic. As it contains vitamin C more than lemon and orange, it can be used against scurvy. It is refreshing tonic.