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Strawberry, Not Only Beautiful but Also Useful For Our Health!

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I love everything about strawberry. As i told you before, that i adore little pretty sweet and sour strawberry. I love drinking strawberry’s juice, i love eating strawberry cheesecake, i love eating strawberry cake, i love eating fresh strawberry. The taste of strawberry for me is sexy. Sweet and sour. Moreover the strawberry is beautiful outside. And the shape of strawberry is also sexy for me. And i love something that’s shaped strawberry. I have the strawberry’s pillow, i have strawberry’s mirror and other thing that’s shaped strawberry.

Strawberry is useful for our health. Because it has an antioxidant to prevent us from the substances that can be dangerous for our body. As Madam Tallien, a great figure of the French Revolution, said “I always take bath full of strawberries to keep the full radiance of my skin.” Fontelle, centenarian writer and gourmet of the 18th century, considered his long life was due to the strawberries he used to eat.

For medicinal purposes all parts of the plant are used, especially the fruit. In this content authors do not distinguish between wild and domestic sorts of strawberry. The fruit is gathered in dry weather in the morning when the dew disappears or in the evening as the wet fruit is apt to spoil. The ripe whole fruit is gathered and dried in special ovens. If dried correctly the fruit keeps its bright red color. The fruit loses its qualities if over-dried. The leaves are dried in cool, windy place and stored in boxes covered with paper from the inside. The dried fruit is stored in tin boxes. They are best before 1-2 years. Strawberry is known as medicinal plant since 13th century. It is widely used by different countries of the world. In Armenian folk medicinal practice strawberry was used for better appetite, and to stabilize digestion. It is also used against urolithiasis and gallstone diseases, podarga, hepatitis, etc. The leave decoction is used against menstrual bleedings, ulcer, gastritis, anemia, hypertonic and heart diseases, and atherosclerosis. In Germany the leaves are used against gallstone, neural and spleen diseases, gastritis, bronchial asthma, sleeplessness, haemorrhoids, bad mouth smell, etc. In a number of countries strawberry is used against colitis, jaundice, ulcers, reachitis and other diseases. According to N.G. Kovaleva, fruit decoction has positive affect on high blood and excessive heart beat. In scientific medicine it is proven the diuretic, resolvent qualities which are effective to cure gallstone and gastritis. The plant is also proven to have antibiotic and fitocidic qualities.

Strawberry has good antioxidant that is useful to prevent us from cancer. Its useful antibiotic, antioxidant and fitocidic is very good to against cancer. They can destroy the dangerous substances that cause cancer. From some researches, strawberry is believed can make our life longer.

Strawberry is also widely used in cosmetics to get rid of pimples, spots from the face. In these cases strawberry juice is mixed with egg yolk (1 tea-spoon of juice to 1 egg yolk) and put on the face. It is useful to  smooth your face too.

Strawberry can be made a juice for our daily consuming. Just mix some fresh strawberries with sugar , honey and a cup of mineral water. The quantities of sugar and honey is depend on  you. And for better, you can add some ices into. By adding sugar and honey, you get energy from them. The other serving of strawberry is by eating them as your fruit. Strawberry can be made a pudding too if you like. Strawberries are often used to flavor other foods, such as ice cream. Apart from its interest as a desert fruit, the strawberry draws interest due to the peculiarities of its structure, its tendency towards variation, and the gardener’s success in exploiting this tendency. There are so many ways of serving strawberry as your daily consuming.

So, i’m not wrong loving strawberry, right ;)

Source:

Darrow, George M.(1966). The Strawberry: History, Breeding and Physiology.New York: Holt Rinehart &  Winston.

Schindler, M.(2007). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia :Strawberry  Garden Strawberry. Online. Available:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Strawberry.html

Schindler, M.(2007). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Fragraria Vesca.  Online. Available:

http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Fragraria_vesca

About Ochie Putri

is working as an IT Engineer at one of the Government Coorporation. A pianist. She has played piano since her age 4 years old. loves playing classical and jazzy music. She's used to living in jakarta, used to live and study in Bandung, but was born in Medan. Wears a jilbab. Fashionable and cares alot of her apperance. A blood of Javanese and Bataknese flows into hers. A jazz and Britpop listener. Can't stop listening to Coldplay, Weezer, The Submarines, Olivia, Eliza Lumley, Radiohead, George Duke, Incognito, Anggun, Maliq&d'essential, Tompi, Chrisye, Mew, Jason Mraz, Camera Obscura, Bad English. A chocolateaholic. Deeply loves her families, and her bestfriends. A branded shopaholic. Disgusts to a cat. Drinks mineral water, strawberry's juice, Martabe's juice and hot chocolate. Adores to that little pretty sweet and sour strawberry. Reads everything that can be read. Loves Deutsch. Loves travelling. Addicts to Medan's food like "lontong sayur medan", "martabak mesir", "jus martabe", "nasi gurih dendeng", "kwetiaw balap bang udin", "roti jala". Can be autism when being with her laptop named Reno and turning her iPod's playlist. Loves photography and being captured by camera. Enjoys playing with her little sister named Karin and always miss her when she's back to reality: working.

2 Responses to Strawberry, Not Only Beautiful but Also Useful For Our Health!

  1. i LOVEEEE strawberries!!
    now i can eat even more with out feeling bad:)
    yummm!! haha:)
    thanks for being a wonderful blogger, you inspire me:)
    its people like you that keep wordpress amazing and open to the world in hopes that among all the junk that people can put on here, they can find something like this so they can realize, there still is good in the world, and on wordpress:)
    haha! just thought you should know! :)
    LOVE-alicia (who LOVES strawberries)

    • hi alicia,, thank you for visiting my blog..
      yes,, i love strawberries much too..
      that’s why i write about it..
      what a wonderful being the inspiration for somebody.. i’m so glad..
      keep on reading my blog y.. i hope you enjoy it.. :)

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