Medicinal Properties Of Wild Garlic And Angular Onions

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Ramson

Ramson

Ramson. The bear and victory bow are most often found under this name. Wild garlic is common in Western and Eastern Siberia, in the Far East, in the European part of Russia, especially in the Kola Peninsula and in the North Caucasus. She lives in forests and forest edges.

When transferred to culture, its high antimicrobial effect is preserved. Bulbs and a false stem with leaves are used for food, which have a pungent taste with a garlic aroma. Fresh wild garlic tastes good. Its leaves contain up to 195 mg / 100 g of vitamin C, and the bulbs - up to 100. Its leaves contain up to 0.087% of essential oil containing sulfur. Its leaves and bulbs also contain essential oil, which in its composition is similar to that of garlic, alliin glycoside, saponins, vegetable wax, pectin substances.

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Ramson is one of the favorite plants of the population of Siberia. They use it both fresh, and salted and fermented. In places where wild garlic grows, its leaves are used for preparing various salads, snacks, for dressing in first courses and as a wonderful filling for pies. In Buryatia and Kyrgyzstan, wild garlic is used to season dishes from lamb and manti. In China, it is used for steeping meat and game.

Ramson has long been used as a medicinal plant. Forest and domestic animals instinctively feel its healing power. Sick cats and dogs run away into the taiga, eat it and return home healthy. The content in the bulbs of highly active phytoncides with strong antiscorbutic, insecticidal, bactericidal and fungicidal (antifungal) properties significantly exceeds their amount in garlic and horseradish.

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Ramson

The whole wild garlic plant is widely used in Tibetan medicine. The famous doctor of the Middle Ages Avicenna recommended using wild garlic for abscesses, chronic cough, dropsy, snake bites and rabid dogs. It, like garlic, is used for toothache and vitamin deficiencies, and juice mixed with alcohol is used for rinsing with periodontal disease; in fresh and salted form, it is recommended to use it to reduce inflammation in the oral cavity.

Fresh wild garlic is used for the prevention and treatment of colds and infectious diseases. It is also used as a fortifying, anti-inflammatory, anti-febrile, anticonvulsant agent, is able to increase the amplitude of heart contractions, stimulate respiration and blood circulation.

Ramson increases the secretory and motor activity of the stomach and intestines, stimulates appetite, is used to treat gastrointestinal diseases (dysentery, dyspepsia, atonic constipation, intestinal distention). For disorders, fresh onions and infusion of bulbs, as well as a mixture of freshly crushed bulbs with sour milk, are used. Ramson is a good anthelmintic. At the same time, it is consumed fresh inside, enemas are made from the infusion of the bulbs.

Ramson is used to treat atherosclerosis, hypertension and associated dizziness and insomnia, as a blood purifier for skin rashes and scrofulous lichen. Alcohol tincture is used for rheumatism. It is widely used in folk medicine for the treatment of tuberculosis, bronchitis, cough, thyroid diseases, neurasthenia, dropsy. Tea made from fresh or dried ramson arrows is used for irritation of the bladder and frequent urge to urinate.

Fresh juice is instilled into the ear for purulent inflammation. Gruel from freshly crushed bulbs is used to heal wounds, applied to the affected areas with scabies and dermatomycosis. There is evidence of the healing effect of wild garlic in case of poisoning with salts of heavy metals, in particular mercury and lead. Ramson is a good honey plant and a preservative. Its antibiotic phytoncides can be used in the storage of perishable food.

Crushed or finely chopped leaves protect meat and fish from rapid spoilage. Also used to combat plant diseases.

Angular bow

The angular bow is widespread in Western and Eastern Siberia. It is also grown in the European part of Russia. In the wild, it is found in low places, in meadows, in valleys. Among the rare types of onions grown in personal plots, angular grows in spring one of the first.

Angular bow

His leaves and bulbs are edible, which can be eaten raw in salads and used as a seasoning for soups, gravies, meat, fish and vegetable dishes, and to prepare filling for pies from them. They can also be dried, salted and fermented for the winter. The leaves taste like wild garlic, taste good, tender, do not coarse for a long time, contain up to 13.4% dry matter and up to 12.4% sugars. They are distinguished by a high content of vitamin C - up to 118.6 mg / 100 g - and carotene, organic acids and mineral compounds.

Angular onions are also used as a medicine - for the prevention of vitamin deficiencies - and as an ornamental plant. Oblique onions are called garlic, mountain garlic, flask, vinegar, uskun, giant, sandy, sometimes - incorrectly - wild garlic. This type of onion grows widely in the European part of Russia, it is found in the middle and steppe zones of the Volga region, in Western and Eastern Siberia, in Central Asia and in northwest China.

In places of natural habitat, it occurs in Altai, in the Novosibirsk region in the form of thickets along river valleys, in forest mountain meadows, on wooded slopes. Its leaves and bulb have a specific garlic aroma and pungent taste.

Delicate leaves are superior in taste to the onion. Oblique onion is a valuable vitamin plant. The leaves contain up to 16.2% dry matter, 70-80 mg / 100 g of ascorbic acid, 3-4 mg / 100 g of carotene. They contain fiber, sugars, protein, essential oils, as well as coumarins, glycosides, saponins, tannins. The leaves are also rich in minerals. The population uses it instead of fresh garlic in spring and summer, in autumn for pickling vegetables, meat, for canning food.

They are prepared for future use, salting like wild garlic. Oblique onion is a valuable fungicidal, ornamental and melliferous plant. Bulbs can also be used as raw materials for the production of glue, scales as a natural dye. The chemical composition of various types of onions is shown in table. 1. The vitamin value of various types of onions is presented in table. 2. It should be borne in mind that the biochemical composition of onions depends on many reasons: these are the soil, and the cultivation technique, and the timing of harvesting greens, but the variety is decisive.

Perennial onions are most widespread in temperate regions, but they are grown far in the north, and especially winter-hardy varieties - beyond the Arctic Circle. We will talk about the features of their agricultural technology in the next issues of the magazine.

• Part 1. History and use of onions for medicinal purposes
• Part 2. Healing properties of perennial onions
• Part 3. Medicinal properties of wild garlic and angular onion