Each gardener has a “bouquet” of their favorite flowers, which have been selected for years by seasonal flowering, and for which proper care has already been established. On a special, honorable account - flowering perennials. In addition to decorative flowers, you can plant a medicinal perennial plant on your site, which will not yield to your favorites with its flowering and beauty.
Take, for example, a plant like Echinacea purpurea. This flower is cultivated for decorative and medicinal purposes. Beautiful purple-violet baskets will look great on your flower beds. The plant begins to bloom from the end of May and continues until mid-August.
The plant is winter-hardy, loves lighted areas and moist fertile soils. The complexity of care and vitality of the plant, when compared with other flowers, is at the level of a pharmacy chamomile. Echinacea flowers can be grown from seeds, which are recommended to be sown in the spring to a depth of about 3 cm. Shoots appear in the 2-4th week, and the plant blooms already in the 2nd year.
Having such a miracle plant in your area, you will get a wonderful medicine. Echinacea flowers will relieve you of many diseases, increase and strengthen weak immunity.
If you will be collecting echinacea for your own purposes, it is recommended to do this when the plant begins to bloom violently in July. It is then that the blooming Echinacea flowers and shoots 25-30 cm long are cut. The rhizomes are dug up in the fall, because at this time the content of healing substances in the plant reaches a peak. Infusions are prepared both from fresh raw materials and from dried.
But do you know about the beneficial properties of the plant? Many do not even guess what the Echinacea flower looks like . The photos presented in the article eloquently tell you about this. And perhaps, having examined more closely, many will recognize him.
It has already been scientifically proven that the roots, seeds and flowers of Echinacea contain unique natural substances: resins, essential oils, tannins, valuable natural antioxidants and polysaccharides. The roots of the plant contain insulin, essential and fatty oils, glucose and many more useful vitamins and elements.
Among other things, this plant is rich in iron, which is necessary for a person to form red blood cells, calcium for teeth and bones, selenium, which gives strength to our body in the fight against diseases. If you go to the pharmacy and ask for a drug to strengthen your immune system, they will offer you a tincture of purple coneflower. In some cases, the cost of the drug will unpleasantly surprise you.
After surgery, doctors often prescribe echinacea for patients to restore tissue faster.
Now imagine this flower in your flowerbed ... It is easy to make tincture from it and use it if necessary: treat a small wound obtained in the fight against weeds, or you can burn with your own hand-made preparation. More serious illnesses need to be treated after consultation with your healthcare provider. Be healthy and enjoy the long flowering of this plant!