On garden plots, you can often find small pink flowers, somewhat reminiscent of nettles. This is purpurea purpurea. Bees and many other insects always swarm around it, because a plant, unprepossessing at first glance, is an excellent honey plant. In addition, this unpretentious flower growing on almost any soil has excellent healing properties.
Description
Purple Lamb is a biennial, but some species are annuals. The height of the plant does not exceed 30 cm. There are two types of stems: creeping or rising, with a slight reddish bloom.
The leaves are covered with soft hairs, wrinkled, with many veins. Those that are located in the upper part of the plant are purple in color.
Flowers are located in the sinuses and come in several colors: white, white-pink, pink or purple.
The flowering period lasts from mid-spring until autumn.
Spread
Purple Lamb, a photo of which can be found in this article, grows throughout Europe, Asia and parts of Africa. It is found almost everywhere in Russia: throughout the European part and in Siberia. The plant is unpretentious and loves not too fertile soils: loamy, calcareous and saturated with moisture. It is easy to find along fences, in parks and other shady places.
Healing properties
Due to the content of essential oil, tannins, flavonoids, organic acids and saponins, the use of purple purpurea flowers in folk medicine is especially widespread. The leaves of this plant are also used. In addition to the listed substances, they contain ascorbic, coumaronic, caffeic and ferulic acids, carotene and lamine.
Lamb purple has such actions as:
- anti-inflammatory;
- antispasmodic;
- sedative;
- hypnotic;
- improves metabolism;
- expectorant;
- hemostatic;
- hypotensive.
In traditional medicine, it is used for the following diseases:
- tumors of various etiologies;
- hernias;
- hemorrhoids;
- urethritis;
- cystitis;
- eczema;
- hives;
- scrofula.
Recipes
- The most popular in folk medicine is tea made from cinnamon. In addition to taste, it has a very wide range of medicinal properties. It is recommended to take it with anemia, respiratory tract diseases, in the absence of appetite, skin problems. It is effective in many women's problems (painful menstruation, leucorrhoea, etc.). Elderly people used as a sedative and sleeping pill. To prepare the drink, 2 teaspoons of the herb is poured with a glass of water, brought to a boil, removed from the heat and insisted for 5 minutes. They drink for a long time, 2-3 cups a day.
- An infusion of cassava is prepared as follows: one tablespoon of grass should be filled with 200 ml of boiling water and left to infuse in a thermos for half an hour. Take 1/3 cup before meals.
- Tincture is used for uterine bleeding. To prepare it, the flowers of the crypt are poured with vodka (for 10 g of raw materials 300 ml of vodka) and insisted for a week in a warm room, shaking from time to time. After filtering, tincture is taken daily at 30 drops.
Contraindications
There are practically no toxic substances in the composition of the walnut, so you can use products based on it without fear. True, they should be used carefully during pregnancy, with hypotension, increased blood coagulation and atonic constipation.
Lamb - a delicacy
Not all medicinal herbs are used only in traditional medicine. Found cinnamon purple application in cooking. It makes wonderful green cabbage soup, various herbal cocktails. In its raw form, greens reminds of spinach in taste, so the clover is suitable for the preparation of delicious vitamin salads.
Billet
There is an opinion that storing cassava is quite problematic. And all because of the fact that her flowers have a delicious honey taste and aroma that attracts many insects. Therefore, it is recommended to store its dried flowers in a vacuum package or a tightly closed container. Also, with moisture and high humidity, the raw material easily molds.
Harvesting cucumbers is possible throughout the summer. If the number of plants allows, then only inflorescences are collected, but if there are not so many, then you can collect leaves that have no less benefit. Usually, for convenience, the tops of the shoots are harvested.
Lamb purple dried in a shaded place at a temperature of no higher than 40 degrees. To do this, you can use mats for drying herbs and vegetables or a dryer for vegetables with controlled temperature. When dried, the pink color of the inflorescences disappears and turns into a dirty gray.