Wild strawberry

Wild strawberry is commonly cultivated in house and allotment gardens. Wild strawberry fruits are valued for their high nutritional content, taste, and dietary value also a source of antioxidant and antithrombotic compounds essential for human body.

Whole herb, fruits, leaves and roots are used traditionally to treat different ailments. Indigenous peoples used the fruits for food and medicine for various stomach complaints.

Tibetan doctors used wild strawberry for neuropsychiatric effects and for the inflammation in the nerves.

Rhizome is used to cure tonsillitis, fresh rhizome ground to a fine powder and mixed with sugar for a month. In Nepal, root paste is used in controlling bleeding, cough and cold.

Decoction of leaves and roots are used to stop diarrhea and dysentery. Leaves were also dried for use in tea to alleviate a variety of ailments.
Wild strawberry