Lyubistok medicinal - growing and care
Cultivation of love and its reproduction
The generic scientific name Levisticum is believed to be distorted from Ligusticum, which in turn originates from Liguria (an area in Italy where wild women used to grow in abundance in abundance). Local names
Local lyubistok names in different languages are associated mainly with the word "love": Lovcroot, LoM Parsle Wild Celery, Old English Lovage, Italian Lovage, Cornish Lovage, European Lovage. Lovose.
Until now, it is believed that lovage helps in love affairs, if you give him a drink in the form of tea to someone you want to bewitch!
Loveful drug trying to buy because of the mass of its beneficial properties.
It is known as spice and medicinal plant. It is used in cooking, folk and traditional medicine. This plant is also called mountain celery, as it often grows on the slopes of hills and mountains.
What is useful lovage?
The root of loving medicinal is used in the treatment of diseases of the nights and urinary tract. because it digs out a diuretic and anti-microbial effect.
Tincture from this plant is effective in the treatment of gastric pain, gout, rheumatism, migraine. and also with lesions of the oral cavity and throat. There is information that he is successfully used to treat alcohol dependence.
APPLICATION IN COOKINGS
The taste of the leaves of the lyubistok is reminiscent of celery, only with a more spicy spicy aroma.
In cooking, lovers prepare green oil, salads, marinades and add it to meat dishes. In addition, it is used for a spicy mixture with parsley, thyme and rosemary. Mountain celery has an acute spicy smell, it tastes sweet at first, and then sharp and bitter.
Lovingly loves in sauces, vegetables, salads and fried dishes.
COLLECTION AND PREPARATION
In the first year of vegetation, the lover takes his leaves for seasoning. Rhizome, like the upper part, is prepared for the second goal, while the plant is excavated, the root is washed, cleaned and cut to accelerate drying. The upper part is dried separately, the fruits are harvested after their final ripening.
Reproduction of love:
You can multiply lovage by dividing the roots, seeds, but best of all the sprouts. For this:
- Dig a hole deep about 10 cm, add humus or compost and mix it with soil.
- In the prepared fossa, poke out the procession of the lover, separated from the mother plant.
- Pour the plant, and the ground around the thicken with sawdust.
Tips for growing:
In the second year and later, with a long-term culture, lovage is fed in spring with the Vesnee complex mineral fertilizer, and then in a couple of weeks with urea (15-20 g per 1 sq. M). In July, they give liquid organic fertilizer, and in the fall - compost, which is embedded in the soil.
It is best to plant a lover from the south side of the site, along the fence.
Even after the end of the summer season, you can have the greens of love. To do this, the largest roots of 1-2-summer plants with well-marked apical buds are planted in pots and placed on a cool window sill. Regularly watered. The leaves are cut off selectively.
LOVAGE - GROWING AND CARE, ADVICE AND FEEDBACK
LOVAGE-GRASS FOR AN AMATEUR
Once I accidentally discovered a “newcomer” on my site - a small bush with green leaves, similar to celery. I asked my neighbor what kind of plant it was. She explained that this is a lovage, it grows in them, apparently, the achenes were blown into my garden by the wind. Well, I got accustomed, so live on, I decided.
It turned out that lovage is an unpretentious perennial plant that blooms from June to late autumn, exuding a pleasant aroma. Its taste is unusual, not everyone likes it, but I love this spicy herb. I use lovage leaves in early spring as a seasoning, adding to soups, meat and fish dishes. I dry it for the winter.
Lovage roots have a healing effect. They can be used as an anti-inflammatory, diuretic, sedative, in the treatment of alcoholism, and hair loss. I harvest the roots in the fall, at the end of October, when the plant has already faded. I wash them and dry them at a temperature of 30 ... 35 ° C in an electric dryer. I make a decoction of them for hair: 2 tbsp. spoons of crushed roots pour 1 liter of water, boil for 10 minutes and insist until cool. Then I filter and rinse my hair after washing. Hair becomes soft, silky, falls out less.
But you need to remember that lovage leaves can only be plucked in early spring before the formation of flower stalks. During flowering, the plant is poisonous. Roots can be harvested only in late autumn from a two- or three-year-old plant.
I try to remove flower stalks. And when the seeds begin to ripen, I cut off the umbrellas of the plant, since the lovage is a very prolific plant, the entire garden can be sown with its seeds. But I don’t get rid of my “newcomer”, after all, there is a benefit from it.
© Author: Valentina Shishlyannikova, Abakan, R. Khakassia Photo by the author
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This aromatic plant is very loved and appreciated in Europe, especially in Germany. We can also meet him in the polling stations, although infrequently. He is also called beloved, pipe maker, fence. In the old days, a potion was prepared from it, with which girls fascinated guys ...
And the fence because it grows really tall - at the end of summer its two-meter thick hollow stem with umbrellas of yellowish-white flowers sticks out. Belongs to the celery family and resembles its famous relative in taste and smell. Some gardeners even mistakenly consider it to be celery. Somehow they brought me a heel of young plants a lovage with the assurance that this is celery. But I had already grown celery, so I immediately felt the difference.
No, I liked the lovage much more than celery. In early spring, when I cook soups from fresh herbs - nettles, dumplings, sorrel, chives, parsley - several young, reddish-green, not blooming lovage leaves, plucked together with a long juicy petiole, give them a unique taste and aroma. Each time I pick only young leaves, then new ones grow in their place and are suitable for food during April-June. At the edges I leave a few leaves for the needs of the plant itself, such leaves quickly coarsen and are no longer suitable for food. I put a lovage in salads and in the second dishes. The leaves contain B vitamins, ascorbic acid, carotene, vitamin R.
And in folk medicine, roots are used: they can not be excavated, starting from the second year of growth. They treat their heart, kidneys, problems of the gastrointestinal tract, dropsy.
I sow lovage with seeds before winter, because they sprout a month after planting - you will already forget what you have sown. Sown in the autumn germinate in April. In the first year, a rosette of leaves appears; in the second year, the stem grows in summer and seeds appear. Lovage transplant withstands steadfastly, and even an adult plant.
In general, it is resistant to any adverse weather conditions, whether it is heavy rains, frosts, drought.
I planted the heels of plants throughout the garden - along the edges of the beds, in the midst of mint and along the path. In the unbelievable heat of 2010, some plants may have gotten some splashes of water, but I definitely didn’t water the mint. By the end of summer, the lovage had turned yellow, and I cut the leaves and stems. And next spring, all the bushes grew as if nothing had happened, the drought did them no harm.