Tianfu's natural calendar 丨 narrow version "strawberry", light and tasteless (June 15, 2022)

In spring and summer, in the grass, orchards or vegetables after the rain, you can often see small red fruits, which look like strawberries, but it is much smaller than strawberries. It has a pair of eating and delicious appearances, seducting children who are snoring. But parents often say not to eat, because it "sticks to snake's saliva" or "climbed by snake". It is the protagonist we want to say today, snakeberry.

There are many commonly known as snakeberries, such as snake fruits, snake eggs, dragon spit beads, hemp fruits, snake -containing grass, snake plate grass, snake turtle grass, etc. In short, they have a certain relationship with snakes.

Why do people associate it with snakes? To a large extent, it is because snakeberry grows in a dark and humid place, and snakes often like this environment. Therefore, people will see snakes in the place where snakeberries are distributed, and mistakenly think that snakes like this fruit very much. Coupled with the maturity of snakeberries, it just happened to catch up with the snake to end the hibernation of the hibernation to find food. The snakeberry plants are low and the fruit grows on the ground, which will cause people to cause a snake to climb from it. But in fact, the folk statement is wrong and there is no scientific basis.

The poisonous statement of the snakeberry "stained with the saliva of the snake" is not correct. The snake is not vegetarian. It will be released when defense.

So, can snakeberries be eaten? Although it looks like a strawberry, it is not clean in a humid and dark environment after all, so it is not recommended to eat it. Moreover, the children who have been curious about them know that its taste is not as sweet as strawberries, but light and tasteless. However, the whole plant of the snakeberry can be used as medicine, and the sweetness is bitter. It can treat symptoms such as swelling and pain, cough, etc., and has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying and swelling.