A tried and tested medicinal plant and a natural pain reliever are meaded. We show you how you plant the perennial in your garden and use it as a medicinal plant.
The real meadows sweet is a perennial up to two meters high from the genus of rose plants. It grows wildly near waters and is located in Europe and West Asia. The numerous white flowers that wear meadows from June to August are particularly characteristic. They exude an intense, sweet fragrance, which probably also goes back to the name.
In the kitchen you can use the sweet flowers of the perennial versatile – for example for drinks, jellies or to season compote. The Celts and Teutons also used meadowsweet to season honey wine. Above all, however, they used it as a domestic medicinal plant.
In this article you will find out how you can plant meadowsweet yourself and how to use the plant as a medicinal herb.
Mädesüß in your garden
The fragrance of mädesüß attracts wild bees and other insects and offers them a valuable source of food. Note the following information if you plant meadowsweet in your garden:
Location:
- The real meadows sweet thrives best in sunny to partially shaded places.
- Since the plant grows wildly on stream banks and floodplain forests, a location on a pond is particularly suitable.
Floor:
- The soil for meadows should always be moist. The perennial reacts very sensitive to drought and susceptible to pests, such as mildew.
- Mädesüß has no problem with waterlogging and tolerates water depths of up to three centimeters.
- The perennial prefers nutrient -rich and calcareous soils. If you are unsure, you can do a soil sample and find out more about the floor quality.
Sowing:
- It is best to get out of the meadson in spring. If the temperatures no longer fall below ten degrees at night, the plant can also grow in the field.
- Alternatively, you can prefer meadows sweet or acquire young perennials in a well -stocked nursery.
- Cover the seed about two centimeters high with soil and then pour the surrounding earth thoroughly. The germ duration is approximately two weeks.
- To put early plants outdoors, you first grab a hole. It should be roughly as large as the root plant of the young plant. Then carefully remove the plant out of the pot and hold it under water until no blisters climb. Put them in the hole and then cover the roots with soil.
- Pay attention to a distance of 30 to 40 centimeters between the plants.
Care:
- You should cut the blossomed stems back in autumn so that it can drive out in the spring.
- Since meadsweet does not make great demands on the ground, fertilizers are not necessary.
This is how meadows
The white flowers are not only responsible for the lovely fragrance of meadowsweet. There are also valuable ingredients in them:
- essential oils
- Flavonoid
- Tannins
The essential oils contain, among other things, the substances of salicylaldehyde and salicylic acid semester. According to the pharmacy surge, these substances are very important for the fact that girls’ sweet can act as a medicinal plant: they are split up in the body, which creates salicylic acid. The acid has a similar effect to the painkillers acetylsalicylic acid that is in aspirin. It works
- pain -relieving
- and fever.
In 2016, a study was able to demonstrate the anti -inflammatory effect of mädesüß. The tannins contained should also have a positive effect on the oral and throat mucous membranes. However, this effect is not scientifically proven.
Traditionally, tea is used from meadowseless against a number of health complaints. For example:
- Colds
- Digestive problems
- Headache
- Joint pain
Tip: Since the plant has anti -inflammatory effects, a steam bath with meadows should help with skin problems.
So you turn meadows
Already in the Celts and in ancient Greece, meadowsweet was used and appreciated as a medicinal plant. The two peoples used both the flowers and leaves and the root of the plant as a natural pain reliever.
Today’s naturopathy mainly uses the flowers and young leaves of mädesüß. The most common is the use of meadowsüß as a cold tea against fever and body pain.
So you prepare tea from meadows.
For a cup (250 milliliters) you need a tablespoon of dried meadows.
- Cook the water and let it cool to 80 degrees because the essential oils are sensitive to heat.
- Let the tea pull about fifteen minutes before you remove the plant parts.
Attention: Since salicylic acid is suspected, similar to Aspirin to be blood -thinning, you should not consume more than three cups a day. The tea is not suitable for people who are sensitive to salicylic acid and pregnant women.
Tip: In order to be able to use the whole year, you can harvest the medicinal herb and dry them like other herbs.
Revised by Philipp Multhaupt
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