Marsh Wild Rosemary

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Marsh wild rosemary belongs to a family called heather. In the Latin version, the name of this plant sounds like this: Ledum palustre L.

Description of marsh rosemary

Marsh rosemary is an evergreen flowering shrub, the height of which is most often about seventy to ninety centimeters, and sometimes the height of this plant even exceeds one meter. The plant will have a dark gray bark, and its stems are recumbent and rooting, with a very large number of uplifting branches. Young shoots of wild rosemary are endowed with dense omission, reddish-brown in color, while the bark of old branches is smooth, and grayish-brown in color. The leaves of the plant are alternate, leathery, wintering, from above they are dark green and shiny, but from below they are covered with small glands and felt, reddish-brown felt.

The flowers of the wild rosemary are snow-white, they are collected by umbrellas at the ends of the branches. The fruit is an oblong polyspermous glandular-pubescent capsule. The seeds of the plant will be small in size and have pterygoid outgrowths at the ends. The flowering of the plant lasts from May to July.

Under natural conditions, wild rosemary is found in the forest and tundra zone of the European part of Russia, the Far East, Western and Eastern Siberia, as well as on the territory of Ukraine and Belarus. This plant grows in peat bogs, in various forests, and also on moss cushions.

Medicinal properties of wild rosemary

For medicinal purposes, the leaves and young twigs of this plant should be used. Raw materials should be prepared in the autumn period of time, approximately from August to the end of September. Raw materials are harvested during the formation of ripe fruits, only when the development of the shoots has already taken place. The upper part of the shoots, the length of which can even reach one meter, should be cut off with a knife or sickle. The plant should never be pulled out along with the roots. The plant can be harvested again only after five years, when the full restoration of the thickets has already taken place. Raw materials retain their medicinal properties for two years. It is also important to remember that during the drying of such plants, a fairly large amount of essential oil will be released, which can cause headaches. Therefore, it is not recommended to be in those rooms where you dry marsh rosemary.

As for the young leaves of the plant, it contains about ten percent of the essential oil, which contains tannins, triterpenoid taraxerol and myrcene. Marsh rosemary is very often used for rheumatism, as well as for coughing and whooping cough as a diuretic and diaphoretic. In addition, in the form of nasal drops, this plant can also be used to treat rhinitis and flu.

As for Tibetan medicine, a plant such as marsh rosemary is very often used here. The flowers and leaves of this plant are used for liver diseases, but externally they are used for numerous rashes, wounds, lichen, eczema, abscesses and boils, as well as for various eye inflammations, bruises, frostbites and snake bites and other poisonous insects.

With bronchial asthma, tuberculosis, rheumatism, colds and whooping cough, an infusion of marsh rosemary should be taken half a glass four times a day. to prepare this infusion, you will need to take a little less than two teaspoons of herbs in two glasses of cold water, which has been previously boiled. This mixture should be infused for eight hours in a sealed container, and then it is recommended to strain this mixture.

To prepare anti-asthma tea, you will need to take twenty-five grams of wild rosemary herb and fifteen nettle leaves per liter of boiling water. This mixture is infused for eight hours, and taken four times a day for half a glass.