Spring wild vegetation requires compliance with some processing rules. So, the grass can not be cooked for long, otherwise the most valuable vitamins in them are destroyed.

Therefore, when preparing soup or cabbage soup on a green basis, then purified, washed in cold water, herbaceous products are chopped and placed in broth only before the end of cooking. It is best to cook greens for a couple. Cooked food is used immediately. Herbs in salads are selected to taste, than the greens are more diverse, the better. Of course, such a salad is not forgotten to be sprinkled with salt, sour cream or butter, and even pepper, mustard - as one likes. If mashed potatoes are prepared from spring herbs, then sorrel, nettle, rape, and quinoa are sorted, washed, then cooked in a small amount of water (again, preferably a couple), and when it becomes soft, they are wiped through a sieve. Puree flavored with flour, butter and cream, then salt and after heating served on the table. Water from under the green can be used for soup and cabbage soup. You can not cook and store herbs in iron or copper vessels, since these metals are harmful to vitamins.

Gastrointestinal collection Indications for use:.

It is used in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver as an antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory and choleretic agent.

Mix the same parts of chamomile flowers, peppermint leaves, fennel fruits, rhizome roots, licorice roots. The resulting mixture is placed in enameled dishes and pour boiling water in the ratio: 6-8 grams of mixture per 100 grams of water. Insist with the lid closed for 15 minutes. Prepared infusion stored in a cool place protected from light for no more than two days.

Burdock can be used as an antipyretic agent Burdock edible plant. It gives wonderful root crops, which can replace carrots, parsley, parsnips. Burdock root is recognized as a blood cleansing, diaphoretic and diuretic. It is used for rheumatism, arthritis, headache, burns.

Infusion of burdock leaves is used as an antipyretic. To do this, 1 tablespoon chopped leaves of burdock pour 1 cup of boiling water. Insist in the thermos for 30 minutes. Drink during the day with small sips. Infusion of burdock rinsing sore throat.

Wormwood - the most valuable plant Wormwood - the most common weed, which is not paid attention, and in vain. Within our country there are 174 species of Artemisia. The most common: wormwood, bitter, "sivers", "tarragon". Prepare leaves of wormwood from the beginning of vegetation and before flowering. The infusion is prepared before meals (1 tablespoon per glass of water) and apply 1 teaspoonful or 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day before meals.

Wormwood is used for catarrhal diseases, stimulates appetite, regulates digestion and helps with headaches. It is also used for constipation, rheumatism, menstrual irregularities, nervous disorders, scrofula, hypotension (small doses), hypertension (large doses), tuberculosis and malignant tumors. External wormwood is used for rinsing with inflammation of the oral cavity, with rickets, for the treatment of ulcers, and leaves and young shoots are added to salads, soups and borsch.

Natural tea Tea is truly the most common drink. Wherever a person turns out, a glass of boiling water, sprinkled with a pinch of tea leaves, and warms and cheers. But in fact natural tea in Russia is drunk since the 17th century, with the reign of Alexei Mikhailovich, and long before and after in the common people they drank herbal infusions and fruit drinks, so to speak, her own teas.

In forests, in meadows and in gardens - how many plants do you want, whose leaves can replace natural tea. Take them with kapreya, wild strawberry, raspberry, apple, blackberry, blueberry, cherry, lime-colored. Spring travoznavtsy drink tea from cowberry buds. They will not forget they put in the kettle and a pinch of sour: they taste as good as lemon. A chaga, and the oregano and shoots of flowering heather, thyme, young tender leaves of the Tavolga and Badan - drinks from them have been checked for centuries in the peasant way of life! As for the fragrance, the fortress and the pleasant taste, then all these grass-mushrooms are quite, you just have to be able to cook them well.

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