Amazing properties of flower-“flashlight”

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Удивительные свойства цветка-"фонарика"Beautiful flower-“flashlight” called physalis performs not only a decorative function.

We will focus on a juicy orange berry – physalis, popularly called “ground cherry”.

In addition to its decorative functions and excellent taste of physalis, as it turns out, plenty of medicinal properties. Officially physalis belongs to the Solanaceae family and the most common features in this interesting orange fruit with tomato. A characteristic feature of vitalisov, but they are small and larger, is the fruit is a berry, ripening within like a Chinese paper lantern shell. Fizalisa — heat-loving plants, and even their fruit and ripen in the late summer, the plants are practically not tolerate frost.

Rightly put in the category of medicinal plants, physalis — a storehouse of useful properties. For example, orange berry has choleretic, diuretic, hemostatic, antiseptic and analgesic action, and therefore is widely used in the treatment of rheumatism, gout, respiratory diseases and inflammation of the urinary tract.

The physalis, though, and sour-sweet berry, but extremely diet and contains almost no calories and sugar. Therefore, it is widely recommended by nutritionists — you can add it to green salad and vegetable soups fresh and the cooked Cape gooseberries to use as a garnish. Ascorbic acid, which is rich in the fruits of physalis, berry makes a great prophylactic against the flu and seasonal colds.

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