Japanese Sophora - A Healer From Your Garden

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Japanese Sophora (Styphnolobium japonicum)

I am an agronomist by profession, and, in addition, I am a gardener with almost 20 years of experience. On my site I grow more than 60 species of different plants, and there are more than 30 types of medicinal herbs alone.

Among them there are very valuable ones - Baikal skullcap, Ussuri ginseng, Japanese sophora, blue cyanosis - Greek valerian, Tibetan and anise lofant, ginkgo biloba and others.

One friend of mine once aptly put it that now people go to the pharmacy, like to a grocery store - almost every day and leave large amounts of money there. Therefore, I appeal to the readers of the magazine: do you want to create a wilderness corner in your garden - for your own health? Indeed, if desired, our land can give us not only food, but also medicines - both for the soul and for the body.

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In addition to beds for cucumbers, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, parsley and carrots, and other vegetables, set aside a few square meters in the garden for oregano, St. John's wort, lemon balm, hyssop, lofant - and you will be saved from going to pharmacies in winter. From my own experience, I will say that there is not much work on the medicinal bed - only while the plants are small, and then they, hardy wild plants, form a dense curtain and themselves will clog all the weeds.

Thanks to the medical beds, even our parents, who are already under 70 years old, do not suffer from hypertension and joint diseases, and we, who are already over 40, are full of optimism and energy. I want to tell you about one unique plant from my garden, which can be safely called a miracle tree. This is the Japanese sophora, which is still very rare in gardens and in rooms.

The climate in the vicinity of Ulyanovsk is harsh - in winter the temperature can drop below 35oС, and in summer it is possible to dry out heat. In short, the climate is continental. And when I brought a tiny sapling of Sophora from Belarus in 1998 - it was in October, I was very worried that it would not bear our winter, so I did not plant it in a permanent place, but simply dug it in.

In the spring, the sophora started to grow, and I planted a tree in a sunny place, protected from the winds. When planting, I added half a bucket of humus and three glasses of ash to the planting hole. For a year, my beauty gave an increase of more than a meter! Sophora, or as it is also called - Japanese acacia - is very unpretentious, it tolerates frost, drought, with any quality of soil. Its bush is very beautiful - with a dense crown like an acacia, its leaves are pinnate, dark green above, gray-white, pubescent below. Sophora blooms late - in August.

She has large yellow panicles of charming moth flowers that can be seen from afar. Almost all people who pass by our site at this time ask: "What is this?" In October, her fruits ripen in pods, which can sag all winter. Of the features of agricultural technology, I want to note that I formed a sophora in the form of a bush, I give fertilizing for the last time only at the end of July, I also stop watering at the end of July, so that the growth has time to ripen well, and so that the plant will survive the winter well. As a top dressing, I usually add fertilizers from Kemira-Lux, Universal or Kalifosku.

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It is noteworthy that Japanese Sophora is healing from roots to leaves! It is a part of famous Chinese medicines, such as, for example, huato boluses and others. All parts of the plant contain a biologically active substance, rutin, in large quantities. Rutin improves the condition of blood vessels, reduces their fragility, and, therefore, prolongs our life!

According to statistics, it is cardiovascular diseases that kill 1.3 million people a year in Russia! Tincture and water infusion of Sophora treat hypertension, atherosclerosis, angina pectoris, thrombophlebitis, allergies, stomach and duodenal ulcers, hemorrhoids and at least 40 other diseases. This is the multifaceted effect of Japanese acacia on our body!

And most importantly, Chinese doctors believe that consuming Sophora reduces the risk of stroke and pre-stroke conditions by 80 percent! And who doesn’t want to keep a clear head, a solid memory and be an assistant, not a burden to his children and grandchildren even in old age?

We have two sophora bushes - one is at home - on a sunny window in a six-liter pot. It grows like an evergreen houseplant, and one bush is in the country. For medicinal purposes, you can use young shoots with leaves, you can - buds, you can - fruits. But it's a pity to use the buds - the sophora is very beautiful during flowering!

Every morning we take it as tea - for a family we brew 10 small leaves of Sophora in a teapot and drink it separately from everything. Then we have breakfast. If you drink barley or chicory coffee, you can add sophora right there. Or you can use fruits for brewing - 2 pods, but you need to insist longer - about 30 minutes.

I appeal to the readers of the magazine: if you want to create a healing bed in the garden or on the windowsill, I can help you with this - for free. I will share the seeds of lofant (Tibetan ginseng), medicinal monarda, oregano, hyssop, St. John's wort. I only ask you to send a self-addressed envelope with an additional stamp. You can sow medicinal plants all summer long.

My address: 432008, Ulyanovsk, PO Box 201 - Natalya Petrovna Zakomurnaya. I wish you all health and prosperity!