Yasmennik fragrant: a description

The fragrant fragrant is a herbaceous perennial plant with a stem of four facets. It has a fragrant pleasant smell. This plant has a number of useful medicinal properties. In various countries, the jellyfish is considered a medicinal plant. These countries include Austria, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary. Also this plant is widely used in food production. Other names of the ash-tree of the fragrant: madder fragrant, jasmine, fragrant, astringent astera, whey grass, sweet-smelling sweet, sweetheart.

Description of the woodruff

The young lady is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the family of the madder. The grass has a branched and thin rhizome, as well as bare and erect stems with four facets. The height of its stems is about 10-40 centimeters, without branches. His leaves are whorled. The lower leaves are broadly lanceolate (6 in the whorl), acute and small, and the upper ones are lanceolate, about 8 in the whorl. The fruit of the jelly is dry and has a spherical shape, not exceeding 3 mm in diameter. They are covered with bristles in the form of hooks. The flowers of the plant are small, usually white, as well as the right tubular-bell-shaped form, and in addition, they are collected in the paniculate corymbose inflorescence. The flowering of the sweetheart fragrant occurs in May and June, the fruiting begins in July. The dry plant produces a subtle aroma of coumarin.

Place of residence of woodruff

A fragrant woodruff can usually be seen in the forest-steppe as well as forest zone in the CIS countries, in the Mediterranean, in the European part of Russia (not in the north), in the south of the Far East and Siberia, in the Caucasus. It grows in broad-leaved and mixed, as well as in damp and dark coniferous forests. As a rule, the ash tree grows on moist soil with humus, along the banks of rivers in the forest and ravines. A lot of it grows in beech forests, as well as in mountainous areas to the middle belt.

Collection and Procurement

Collect and harvested the plant from early May until the end of June. For the harvesting it is used the aboveground part, which is cut during the flowering of the woodruff. Cut it close to the ground, and then the grass is collected in a bundle and thoroughly dried in a dark and dry room. Storage is performed in well-closed containers no more than 1 year.

Description of the composition of odorous and fragrant woodruff

In its composition the bedstuff contains many useful and effective substances: coumarins, various tannins, flavonoids, various acids (tartaric, malic, catecholic, oxalic, silicic), vitamin P and C.

The root of the plant contains anthraquinones (alizarin, rubiyadin, purpurin) and coumarins. The leaves contain chlorogenic and phenolic carboxylic acid, various tannins, flavonoids, iridoids (deacetylasperuloside), vitamin C and carotenoids.

Yasmennik fragrant: medicinal properties and contraindications

The plant has both medicinal properties and contraindications. The fragrant fragrant is not a plant used in traditional medicine. It is used in various skin diseases as wound healing and astringent, thanks to the content of tannins in it. The active ingredient lactone asperuloside has an anti-inflammatory effect. It also performs an antispasmodic function, affecting smooth muscle. And coumarins, which are part of the plant, provide treatment for nervous diseases and stop the pain syndrome. A variety of extracts and tinctures from the scented jelly (galenic preparations) expand the capillaries, and also increase the rate of circulation, while they do not change the blood viscosity.

Contraindication to use can serve as a period of pregnancy and lactation. The plant is poisonous, so it is dangerous to have an allergic reaction to it, and in addition, it can cause poisoning with accompanying symptoms: headache, vomiting and dizziness.

Application of woodruff

Means with fragrant woodruff soothe the nervous system, stimulate sweating and urine release, improve metabolic processes, give an analgesic effect, heal wounds, eliminate seizures and hysterics, improve sleep and heart work. Decoctions and infusions are used in alternative medicine as a means with diuretic action with inflammations of the genitourinary system, nephrolithiasis, dropsy and cystopyelitis. Infusions from the root of the jelly are usually taken for the treatment of seizures, as well as for toning the entire body. With the prostatitis, use the woodruff in a mixture with other herbs.

In some countries, the smelly fennel is used as a means to improve blood circulation, and in addition, a slight dyeing of the white skin.

This plant serves as a food for rural animals. Dried mandarin flowers are an excellent remedy against moths.

Use of the wood-feller in food production

The smelly odor has a very important nutritional value. Since this is a fragrant herb containing bitterness, coumarin and tannin components, it is used to give the original taste to culinary dishes. To find out what a delicacies fragrant to taste, it is worth trying the dishes containing it in its composition. The leaves of the plant are usually added to fruit and vegetable salads, compotes from dried fruits and various sweetish soups. Also it is used to add flavor to various drinks: lemonade, tea, wine, liquor.

Also very connected with each other is the scented cherry and chocolate, since the plant is added to the chocolate to give it an interesting and original taste. In France, the woodruff is used as an indispensable ingredient for champagne, in Switzerland - for Benedictine, and in America for an unrivaled wine punch, which consists of a mixture of cognac, wine and Benedictine. A coffee substitute is made from roasted plant seeds. From the flowers, stems and seeds of the plant make a milk-coagulating enzyme. Still the grass of the woodruff is used in the fragrance of clothing and tobacco.

In Germany the herb jasmine fragrant is very popular as an ingredient for a drink called Maibowle. The plant is insisted for a while in wine, also sugar, cognac and orange peel are added to it.

In the north of Europe, a variety of smoked products has been flavored by the jelly.

Dosage

There are several recipes for preparing infusions from the herb of the woodruff.

1. It is necessary to take one small spoon of the crushed leaves of the plant and pour it with one glass of hot boiled water, after allowing the mixture to infuse for 3 hours, and then carefully strain. Drink infusion is recommended for half a glass of 4 times a day.

2. In a glass of cold clean water, you need to fill 2 small spoons of finely chopped woodruff, let it brew for 4 hours, then drain. The composition should be taken 2 times a day for half a glass before meals or a glass before bed.