When weeds are beneficial Before miss chopper or ploskorez and destroy the weeds on your site, try to find out whether they can be used in food at its spring table. Many peoples of the world's wild grown herbs are still widely used in salads (especially spring), the first and second courses, and as a spice. For example, in England widely used in feed in the spring of juicy grass primroses, France - tender dandelion leaves in Japan are preparing a variety of cuisine from the leaves of burdock etc. And all this is no accident. After all, wild grown spring greens is exceptionally rich in vitamins, essential oils, amino acids, etc. Get at least young the May nettles. A total of 30 of its greenery provide the person for a day of vitamin C and carotene. And it can be used in the most varied and tasty dishes. Young dandelion leaves in early May - a whole pharmacy of different trace elements, they are particularly useful for the sick and debilitated people. That they do not bitter, Blanch them with boiling water, and they are in any salad you replace the spinach. Commonly grow as goutweed, sorrel, Lungwort, angelica and other herbs. In Russian national cuisine green spring gifts of forests and grasslands are also always occupied a worthy place. But, unfortunately, at present the value of wild plants in our diet is strongly underestimated, and the possibilities of their use, most gardeners know only by hearsay. salads of wild plants prepare the same way as the cultural vegetables. Chopped fresh herbs flavor different seasonings. Salads made with bitter leaves, do not require acute condiments and mustard, it is better to add acid, sour cream, sugar, vegetable oil. A sharp seasonings are desirable when using fresh herbs. And now try to prepare yourself unusual dish of wild greens and appreciate their taste. Sandwich paste Mokrice. Fresh grass woodlouse without roots wash, dry towel, chop. Add the grated horseradish (you can take and store) and softened butter. Salt and pepper to put on taste. Mix well, spread on bread slices. Per 100 g of grass woodlice - 50 g grated horseradish 100 grams of butter. salad nettle and parsley. Young leaves prepared nettle pour hot water and boil for 3 minutes, drain. Then chop and add parsley, season with all the vinegar and sour cream. From top to decorate salad sliced \u200b\u200bboiled egg. At 300 g of nettle leaves - 40 grams of parsley, 2 eggs, 80 g sour cream, vinegar to taste. salad with plantain nettle and onion. Trained young nettle leaves drop to 3 minutes in boiling water, then grind together with the leaves of the plantain. Add chopped onions, sliced \u200b\u200bboiled egg slices, season with vegetable oil and salt. At 120 g of plantain leaves - 60 grams of nettle leaves, 80 g onion, 1 egg, 2 tbsp. tablespoons vegetable oil, salt to taste. quinoa salad with potatoes. Swan and sorrel scalded with boiling water and finely chop, laid on slices cooled boiled potatoes. Then add salt, fill with vegetable oil, mayonnaise, vinegar, garnish with sliced \u200b\u200bboiled egg. At 300 g of crushed leaves quinoa - 60 g of leaves of sorrel, 60 g of grated horseradish, 1 tbsp. tablespoon vegetable oil, 200 g of potatoes, 2 boiled eggs, vinegar and salt to taste. Okroshka spring. Leaves young nettle Boil for 5 minutes and strain. Young leaves of cucumber herb (borago) rub with boiled egg yolk. Lettuce, mustard leaf, green onions, dill and chop finely, add the sliced \u200b\u200bboiled potatoes, cucumber, egg whites, cooked meat or sausage, sour cream, pour kvass. At 1.2 liters bread kvass - 150 grams of nettle leaves, 6 leaves borago, 100 g of lettuce, 2 leaf salad mustard, 60 g green onions, 200 g potato 200 g cucumber, 2 eggs, 80 grams of cooked meat. 60 g sour cream, sugar and salt to taste. Botwin spring. Young leaves of nettles, quinoa, boil a little sorrel and dilute kvas. Add the grated horseradish, finely chopped green onions, dill and baked beets. Serve with boiled fish botvinya. At 200 g of nettle leaves - 100 g quinoa leaves, 150 g of sorrel, 1,2 l bread kvass, 60 g of horseradish, 50 g green onions, 200 g of sugar beet, 20 g dill, 200 g of boiled fish. Soup spring. Young nettles put on for 3-4 minutes in boiling water. Then discard in a colander, rub and simmer for 10 minutes with fat. Carrots, parsley and onions passaged. In the boiling broth to put nettles, roasted vegetables, cut into large dice the potatoes and cook until soft. Add chopped leaves of sorrel, bay leaf, peppercorns and cook until done. Before serving, put a boiled egg, sour cream and sprinkle with finely chopped green onions and parsley. At 200 g nettle - 250 g of sorrel, 500 g of potatoes, 1,5 L broth, 60 g carrots 30 g parsley, 100 g onion, 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons margarine, 60 g cream, 40 g green onions 20 g greens of parsley.
wild plants. Folk Medicine in Russia long ago was so high that foreign doctors are dedicated her entire treatises. In the old folk healers are often used wild flowers, grasses and shrubs as medicines. Believe pharmacists, about 40% of all drugs used by us now have vegetable origin, and as agents for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and even more - about 80%. Mug (burdock). This plant can be use all - and the leaves and roots. In roots there is a polysaccharide inulin, in an acidic environment are turning into fructose, a protein, essential oils, tannins, Vitamin C. In the olden days of burdock root used as food - stewed, roasted, baked, made from young leaves soup and succulent salads. burdock root extract improves the blood, it reduces the concentration of sugars, alkaloids of this plant inhibit the growth of tumors. Roots are used in the treatment of gout, rheumatism, cholecystitis, as a diuretic for edema, to treat wounds. Apply burdock root and beauticians. Decoction of the roots are prepared as follows: 10-20 g dried ground roots Brew in a glass (200 ml) of boiling water, cook 10-15 minutes over low heat, then push for a while. Hair loss, dandruff, itching and oily seborrhea broth rubbed into the roots of the hair or rinsed their hair 2-3 times a week. The same decoction treats eczema and other skin diseases. At home, you can prepare and burdock oil. 75 g of fresh crushed roots of burdock insist night in a warm place in 200 ml of sunflower oil or vaseline. After this infusion is boiled on low heat for 15 minutes, stir often, strained and drained. For an hour or two before washing to wipe his head with oil and put a warm hat. In folk medicine This oil is used for lubrication of long healing wounds. If you decide to try this treatment, please note that the therapeutic effect have only a roots of first-year plants (without clinging to the flowers, which appear in the second year), collected in early spring, when out of the ground only to show young leaves, or dug in autumn, in September-October, when the root of the summer has accumulated a lot of nutrients. Nettles. This is a true vitamin warehouse - the plant has vitamins C, K, B2, carotene, pantothenic acid, iron salts, potassium, calcium, sulfur, sugar, proteins. Nettle increases the coagulability blood increases the amount of hemoglobin, platelet and red blood cells, reduces blood sugar, has diuretic and restorative action, promotes healing of wounds. Useful for bleeding, anemia, atherosclerosis, kidney diseases, urinary and gall bladder, liver, hemorrhoids, violations metabolism. Old people's use of nettles - as a means of boosting the milk of nursing mothers. Due to the high protein content nettle leaves can be compared with leguminous plants. Nettles are often eaten, brewed from the young leaves of cabbage soup, prepared salads. Leaves and stems of nettles You can add salt and canning, as doing it with spinach and sorrel. for medicinal and cosmetic purposes collect nettle leaves in June-August when it is covered with small, inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers. Leaves are collected only from flowering plants. In Bulgaria, the use of nettles in premature graying: 50 g of roots and leaves to insist in 0.5 liters of water and 0.5 liters of vinegar and boil for half an hour. Ostyvshy and strained broth to rub in my head every night for several weeks. When hair loss is prepared the same compound, but nettle take twice as much - 100 g. At the same time hair loss inside take 4 times a day, half a cup decoction of one tablespoon of chopped leaves and roots, boiled for 10 minutes in 400 ml of water. For therapeutic purposes also use fresh juice of nettles - for tea spoon 3 times a day. There is another way: 20 g of seeds and the same amount of sliced \u200b\u200broots pour two glasses of water, simmer on low heat until half the volume of evaporation fluid and filter. The resulting broth to make 3 tablespoons 4-5 times per day. camomile. plant contains azulene, organic acids, tannins, mineral salts, vitamins C and PP. Has anti-inflammatory, spasolytic and analgesic effect, and therefore applies in folk medicine for inflammation and pustular skin diseases, eczema, burns, frostbite, dandruff, seborrhea, as well as foot baths for rheumatism, arthritic and other joint damage, as a sedative. Apply chamomile and cosmetology. To prepare foot baths 20 g dry flowers to fill a liter of boiling water, cool and pour into a basin of warm water. You can cook, and a poultice of the flowers: 2-3 tablespoons boiling water to brew Education pasty mass. This mass is put on a clean cloth and apply to the sore spot. inflamed and reddened eyelids washed infusion, prepared from 1-2 teaspoons of flowers brewed cup of boiling water, nastoennyh 15-20 minutes and filtered. Lotions from this decoction hold for 5-10 minutes at closed centuries. to wash it 2-4 tablespoons of flowers (if hair is long, then in half again) to fill 0,5-1,5 liters of boiling water, put on a weak fire for 5-10 minutes and let it brew. Strained infusion to rinse clean after washing hair. hair dye in the golden color of cooked more concentrated extract - 100 grams of dried flowers steeped 0,5 L of boiling water. Further, all as in the previous trial - infusion drain, squeeze out the residue and filter all together. If such a procedure to conduct regular, reduced fat content of the skin, hair roots stronger. Collecting chamomile note: this can be done almost all summer, but always in dry weather and afternoon, when the dew is gone. Drying is necessary immediately, in a warm and well ventilated room at a temperature no higher than 35 degrees, otherwise evaporate essential oil and medicinal properties of the drug decline. Hunter. In ancient Greece, hunters were treated wounds, hemorrhage, hysteria, convulsions; Ibn Sina recommended St. John's wort with radiculitis, prolonged healing of ulcers and insomnia. According to observations of the Polish and Bulgarian phytotherapeutist, plant has antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, styptic and astringent properties. the treatment of skin diseases, wounds and burns are used broth: a tablespoon of chopped herbs pour a glass of water and cook for 10-15 minutes. Cooled and strained broth to drink in small portions throughout the day. Scheme can be slightly changed: 2 tablespoons boiled in 0.5 liter of water for 5 minutes. Filtered warm broth to drink half a cup 4 times a day before meals. from St. John's wort can be prepared and oil to heal wounds and skin diseases. 20-25 g of fresh crushed flowers, pour 200-250 grams of pure sunflower oil or olive oil. The mixture was incubated 14 days, stirring frequently. Then filtered and put on the sore spot. You can cook and alcohol tincture: 10-20 g dried herb infused for a week in 500 ml of vodka. Mouthwash, strengthen gums, prevent and treat stomatitis vodka tincture is diluted in half or 2 / 3. Combining St. John's wort, note: it blooms in June-July, at least in August. Collect it at the time of flowering, cutting (not pulling) the upper part of the plant to flower. And: giperritsin (active the beginning of St. John's wort) increase sensitivity to sunlight. Large doses of St. John's wort may increase allergic reaction to ultraviolet rays. succession. Who is not familiar with the seeds of this plant, similar to a trapezoidal plate with two hooks. We have dozens of taking them out of clothes returning from the meadows or the woods. The succession has long been known as a remedy for headaches, eczema, hypertension, as a sedative. In a series of concoctions used in diathesis in children, seborrhea, ulcers, gout, psoriasis, and as a diaphoretic and diuretic. To prepare the broth should take 20 grams of leaves and young tops at the time of flowering, chop them, enameled or stainless steel closed vessel, pour 200 ml of water at room temperature, heated in a boiling bath, stirring frequently with a wooden spoon, cool and add boiling water to 200 ml. Take a tablespoon three times a day. In broth succession bathed nerve children so that they slept better. For one infant bath there was added another 100 g of sea salt.
Green Filter in the air of our apartments are in a definite however small, the concentration of harmful substances: formaldehyde (a chemical used in the manufacture of plywood, furniture, carpets, fiber materials and some types of insulation), plasticizers - substances introduced into the plastic to give them flexibility, pesticides (those who keep their houses for spraying their garden plots), and various solvents contained in paints, plastics, adhesives and other chemical products used for finishing apartments, microorganisms and allergens, and, finally, frequently - common tobacco smoke. Prior to 1990 the air in buildings was updated every two hours itself through doors, vents and cracks in the windows. More and more people began to pay attention to sealing their homes and workplaces for better savings heat. The air in buildings are still exchanged, but it takes for five hours or more, which leads to the accumulation of pollutants in it to a level threatening the health of people. No book on indoor horticulture is not without words that houseplants freshen the air in the apartment. Each amateur houseplants , listing the merits of their pets, be sure and mention that to them in the room breathe easier. But until now this effect, observed "at the household level", explained only by the fact that plants assimilate accumulated in the air, carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Here goes More and processes of active absorption of air and other harmful substances. turned out that well-known to all indoor plant - Chlorophytum clears air more efficiently than many of the specially created for this purpose technical equipment. placed in a special small Plexiglas chamber plants of several species, and highlighting its good, the researchers injected back gases that pollute the indoor air. Metering is then absorbed by plants volume of gases, they found the most "workable". Thus it was found that for 24 hours Chlorophytum completely cleans the air from the experimental chamber all contaminants. For some as yet unknown reasons, this plant assimilates harmful gases at a phenomenal rate, maybe the reason is that it is growing rapidly, and his "kids", too, receive nourishment from the air. Chlorophytum propagated vegetatively, its stems appear sprouts, then purchase their own root - the so-called "kids". one plant is enough to mitigate the effects of nitrogen oxides indoors, where the combustion gas. But, for example, to absorb the formaldehyde released by thermal insulation of some synthetic materials, in a flat average, according to the calculations already take about 10 Chlorophytum. In the laboratory wastewater have been studying the properties of water hyacinth - one of the most prolific in the world of weeds. Everywhere he is considered a pest. Indeed, the hyacinth grows uncontrollably, choking waterways. However, unable to identify its useful properties. It turned out that this plant not only with horrifying speed clogs the river, but also simultaneously cleanse their water of harmful impurities. Water hyacinth is perfectly absorbs phosphate, potassium nitrate, that is, the very substances that pollute it. It is the study of water hyacinth prompted scientists to think about using plants to clean air. optional use of filters placed in the soil, effectively eliminate harmful impurities in the air. So, for example, introduced in a pot with the plant activated carbon significantly enhances the cleaning properties of plants as a whole.
benefit and harm plants It would seem, to say nothing, and even more so to argue that the fresh flowers in the house - it's not only the beauty and comfort, but also good. Firstly, interior decoration. Secondly, the rest for the eyes and nerves, because green calms, but a kind of estetoterapiya help cope with depression. Third, known to all volatile allocated, as it turns out, not only in the pine forest, but a modest house plants that are in your apartment. Scientists, for example, found that indoor air, where it grows myrtle ordinary pathogens to 2 times lower than where it is not. Contribute improvement of air different vines: Vinogradov and roitsissus rombolistny and Sprenger asparagus and Chinese rose. Houseplants moisturize air, and thus eliminate the drying of the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth, which is important because we are all more than half its life in areas with dry air. Geraniums, for example, has a property like sucking moisture and waste, clean and freshen the room with the stale, "stale" smell. smell of peppermint and soothing an excited nervous system, relieves irritation, fatigue, aggressiveness. In addition, it helps to focus, therefore, American psychologists recommend that everyone who works hard on the computer, keep a number of pot with a bunch of mint or dried mint, and from time to time to inhale its fragrance. GREEN ENEMY And yet there is a world of perfection, and all of the same rubber plants and violets growing on your window, yet another proof of that. In the afternoon, the sunlight, they absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, but at night everything is opposite. So do not actively decorating the bedroom with flowers, and especially children. We have to remember that the presence of plants in the home may worsen the plight of people suffering from bronchial asthma. Fungi of the genus Aspergillus, often present in the soil and cause lung diseases - allergic, bronchopulmonary aspergillosis. Fungal spores, falling from inhaled air in the bronchi, settle in them and begin to reproduce. Therefore, as a primer for houseplants should not use the ground with fallen leaves, straw. Generally, watering flowers, be careful to prevent adding excess moisture in the soil and pallets. This is harmful for plants (rot roots), and for your health. Very Plants are often used as a home kit. Aloe, kalanchoe are called - "plant doctor." But with a huge number of indications for Application of the same aloe (aloe), it turns out, there are many restrictions. Aloe is contraindicated in kidney and liver diseases, is not recommended for severe heart disease, hypertension, acute indigestion, people older than 40 years, with uterine bleeding and hemorrhoids, large pregnancy. Finally, among the houseplants are poisonous, and very common in our homes. Especially must be careful to those who grow oleander and dieffenbachia. If you have small children, they may want to try them out "to the tooth, and a milky juice Dieffenbachia is poisonous. And finally, on garden flowers, which We love to give each other. Flowers roses, lilies, cherry, lilac, magnolia have very heavy, rich flavor that can affect the vessels and bronchi. You also can not forget about a possible allergic reaction to pollen, so try not to leave them in a room for the night.
