Roots and fruits have been used for digestive or skin tonic and as a folk remedy for gout. Strawberry tea is mildly astringent. Fruit is rich in vitamin C and has been used as a treatment for scurvy. Fruits also are used to treat diarrhea. Leaves and roots can be used for sunburn and for skin blemishes.
Fruit juice is used for discolored teeth.
Originally cultivated in ancient Rome. Strawberries were originally called strewberries. Strawberries are not really a berry or a fruit they are the enlarged ends of a plant's stamen. To some the strawberry is the most important small fruit in the Western Hemisphere. The Mohawk name was Noon Tak Tek Hah Kwa.