Meadowsweet Or Meadowsweet (Filipendula) - Fragrant Healer

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

Meadowsweet or meadowsweet - a fragrant healer for your garden

There are many garden plants that combine medicinal properties with high decorative properties. For example, a letter, Kuril tea, chicory, erythematosus, fireweed, lofant, wild rose and others. Far from the last place in this series is the meadowsweet or, more correctly, the meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria). The foamed caps of its snow-white flowers cover the human-height stems during the mowing season. Therefore, among the people he is better known as the whitehead. And it is also called honey cake, honey cake, booze color - for the incomparable aroma of flowers, elm grass - for the shape of the leaves, wet raspberry - for wet growing places, magpie - for multifaceted healing properties.

All parts of the plant are used as medicinal raw materials. Rhizomes with roots are dug up in the fall, when the maximum amount of nutrients is stored in them for the winter, or in early spring, until they are wasted on the growth of the stems. They are washed from the ground in cold water and dried under a canopy. Flowers and leaves are harvested during the flowering period and dried in the attic, and separately. From the dried panicles, carefully shake off the color and sift through a sieve to separate from the branches. The fact is that the flowers contain a lot of aromatic compounds (for example, vanillin, essential oils, methyl salicylate, etc.), and the stems, along with other useful substances - vitamin C, caffeic acid, tannins - contain bitterness.

Tea is brewed from the flowers: 1 teaspoon for 2 cups of boiling water, leave for 30 minutes. It is very aromatic and tasty both on its own and when mixed with other medicinal herbs that do not have a pronounced taste (nettle, plantain, knotweed, clover flowers, etc.). Meadowsweet flower tea has a tonic, anti-inflammatory, soothing, bactericidal effect. Helps with stomach and duodenal ulcers, hypertension, epilepsy, gout, rheumatism, kidney and urinary tract diseases, enhances the liver's ability to neutralize toxic metabolic products.

Tincture of leaves and ointment from the roots are used for rubbing with rheumatism, externally with trophic ulcers of the lower extremities, burns, eczema, to strengthen and grow hair. To prepare the ointment, 1 part of the root powder is mixed with 5 parts of butter or petroleum jelly.

Medicinal raw materials of meadowsweet can hardly be bought at a pharmacy. And it is not possible to find it in every area, and it is currently unsafe to collect medicinal herbs in nature. But there is nothing easier than growing this natural, unpretentious winter-hardy plant in your garden. Meadowsweet is easily propagated by sowing seeds before winter. When sowing in spring, they must be stratified: kept in wet sand at a temperature of about 0 ° C (under snow or in a refrigerator) for about two months. Seeds are sown in grooves 1-1.5 cm deep. Crops must be covered with lutrasil or shaded with spruce branches so that tender seedlings do not burn in the sun. In the first year of life, a rosette of leaves grows in plants. It is better to transplant them to a permanent place in September, since in spring they start growing early. The distance between plants is 25-30 cm. When choosing a place, it should be borne in mind that the meadowsweet is shade-tolerant, hygrophilous, loves loose fertile soil. To preserve moisture in the soil, mulching plantings with straw, last year's fallen leaves, etc. gives a good effect. Plants bloom from the second year. In the future, they can be easily propagated by dividing the bushes. In one place, the meadowsweet can grow for a long time without transplanting. He does not need shelter for the winter. To provide a family with medicinal raw materials for a year, an area of one square meter is enough. He does not need shelter for the winter. To provide a family with medicinal raw materials for a year, an area of one square meter is enough. He does not need shelter for the winter. To provide a family with medicinal raw materials for a year, an area of one square meter is enough.

Meadowsweet is an excellent honey plant. The bees attracted by him to the site at the same time pollinate cucumbers, strawberries, raspberries and other plants flowering at the same time and thereby significantly increase their yield.

Unfortunately, meadowsweet seeds are not available for sale in Semyon stores. To everyone who wishes to grow this beautiful and medicinal plant on their site, I will willingly send meadowsweet seeds. They, as well as planting material for maral root, rhodiola, wild garlic, kandyk, God's tree, golden currant, alfredia, norichnik, kalufer and more than 200 other rare medicinal, spicy plants, vegetables, flowers and shrubs can be ordered from the catalog. It is enough to send a marked envelope - you will receive the catalog in it for free. My address: 634024, Tomsk, st. 5th Army, 29-33, mob. t. 8913-8518-103 - Gennady Pavlovich Anisimov. The catalog can also be obtained by e-mail - send a request to E-mail: [email protected]. The catalog can be found on the site