2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
We continue to "get acquainted" with wild plants, hardy, picturesque, edible and capable of maintaining the health of a summer resident without financial investment and with minimal expenditure of time and effort. It is only necessary to allocate a small space for them on their summer cottages
In the article titled "We tame" wild plants "we remembered about Burnet and Angelica, which grow successfully in the wild, accumulate many useful substances in their plant tissues, which they willingly share with humans without asking for anything in return. Let's take a look around the site to find other helpers for our health, unpretentious growing behind the country fence.
Primula or Primrose spring
This undersized perennial plant, able to create picturesque curtains on the soil, from which only "yesterday" the snow melted, fully justifies its official generic name "Primula", which means "first" in Latin, and several available specific epithets, among which there is a specific the epithet "veris" meaning "true" or "real" and "officinale" meaning "medicinal".
Primrose medicinal (aka Spring primrose) is not only able to decorate the blackness of spring soil with rosettes of its delicate picturesque wrinkled leaves and miniature graceful flowers that form inflorescences, lovingly called by the people "golden keys of spring", but also enrich your diet with vitamin "C", according to the content of which its tender spring leaves are considered the absolute leaders among herbaceous brethren. Leaves can be safely added to spring salads, soups, to prepare infusions, decoctions and teas from them, which help prevent vitamin deficiency.
All parts of the plant, including the roots, have healing powers, which are removed from the soil in the fall and used to alleviate the condition of the body when coughing. From the flowers, exuding a honey aroma, they prepare a tincture on alcohol, which can calm the naughty nerves, relieve insomnia.
To become the owner of such a magical plant, you can use the seeds that are sown directly into the ground before winter, or do not be too lazy to take a walk to the nearest forest clearing or the edge of the forest, where you can easily find bold primroses. Seedling plants, however, grow more efficiently.
Spring primrose feels great in a sunny meadow and in a semi-shaded area, if the soil on them is humus and moist.
Burdock, powerful, edible and healing
It is hard to believe that this powerful creature of nature is a relative of the picturesque asters, widely sought after by gardeners. But, botanists know better, and therefore they identified the burdock plant (lat. Arctium) in the Astrovye family. But the attitude of gardeners to Burdock is far from being as touching as to asters. Let's try to take a closer look at Burdock.
It is impossible not to notice Burdock. The plant quickly gains height, towering above its fellows. For especially inattentive Burdock stocked up with tenacious hooks that end the leaves of the wrapper of the plant inflorescence. With their help, he reminds scattered people and animals of himself, and at the same time expands his earthly possessions. Burdock inflorescence is a real masterpiece of Mother Nature, isn't it?
Burdock is attractive to people not only for its power and beauty, but also for its ability to feed a person, as well as provide a person with healing means. After all, its roots, which have learned to accumulate useful substances in themselves, including proteins, sugars (especially the polysaccharide "inulin"), boiled or stewed, are very tasty and useful. And the roots of Burdock in their power are not inferior to the power of the above-ground parts of the plant. The most valuable are the roots of a plant of the first year of life (Burdock is a two-year-old plant). In addition, jam and jam are made from the roots, and the dried roots are turned into flour, the addition of which to traditional types of flour makes it possible to bake nutritious cakes.
Young green foliage of Burdock, like the delicate leaves of Primrose, is rich in vitamin C, and therefore is suitable for spring salads.
Burdock is a faithful friend of people with diabetes. The decoction from the roots strengthens hair growth. Burdock juice in conjunction with vegetable oil heals wounds on the body. And many have heard about burdock oil.
By planting Burdock somewhere near the fence, the summer resident will protect himself from annoying neighbors' eyes, and will also be the owner of a source of medicines and cosmetics. If there are hives on the site, then the bees will also be happy with the honey Burdock.
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