There are many weeds and wild fruits to eat in the countryside, which is also the exclusive childhood memory of children who grew up in the countryside. In the past, because of poor living conditions, rural children didn't have much snacks to eat, so they often went to the mountains to find some wild fruits to eat. However, there is a red wild fruit that looks very much like strawberries. Although it looks tempting, it dares not eat it, that is, the raspberry.

I believe many people have heard that this kind of fruit is eaten by poisonous snakes or climbed by poisonous snakes, so it is poisonous and can't be eaten. Is that raspberry really poisonous and inedible?

Snake berry, also known as snake soaked grass, dragon spit bead, snake fruit, wild strawberry, old snake soaked grass, snake skin rattan, snake eight petals and so on. In short many names are related to snakes.

Duchesnea indica usually grows on hillsides, grasslands, roadsides, ditches or grassy ridges, and likes the shade. It is distributed all over the country. Generally, raspberries are in and out nearby. Because snakes also like to hide in cool places, children in rural areas are naturally afraid of raspberries and always worry that a snake will suddenly climb out of the grass and bite people.

In fact, snake berries are not as horrible as the rumors of rural elderly. Although there is a small amount of toxicity, a small amount of consumption will not lead to poisoning. However, compared with its toxicity, the medicinal value of Duchesnea indica is higher and can be basically ignored.

The whole herb of Duchesnea indica can be used as medicine to treat lung heat, sore throat, cough, common cold and summer heat, hematemesis, acute mastitis, scrofula, oral ulcer, endometrial bleeding and other diseases. It can also be used externally to treat eczema, insect and snake bites, furuncle and carbuncle. In particular, the effect of treating snake and insect bites is remarkable.

In addition, Duchesnea indica also contains anti-cancer and anti-tumor substances, which are now commonly used to treat various tumor diseases, hepatitis, leukopenia and other diseases. It has high medicinal value in clinical treatment.

However, even so, there are still many people who don't like to eat raspberries. On the one hand, I was afraid of their legends since I was a child, on the other hand, the taste of snakeberry is extremely poor and tasteless, which is a typical beautiful but not delicious wild fruit.