Plucket four-petaled
.Four-petaled cranberry is a well-known evergreen, stalked small semi-shrub in the cranberry family, up to 80 cm long, with small, lanceolate, shiny, short-petiolate leaves, green above, silvery below. The flowers are dark pink. The fruit is a globular dark red juicy shiny berry.
Four-petaled cranberry blooms in May - July, fruits ripen in late August - September.
Four-petaled cranberry is distributed in the European part of the former USSR, Siberia, Kamchatka and Sakhalin. Grows on peat bogs, in the zone of coniferous forests.
Mature fruits harvested after frost, in the fall or early spring are used. Cranberry fruits left under snow retain their appearance and flavor well, accumulate more citric acid, but lose vitamins. Four-petal cranberries are virtually odorless and the taste is sour.
Chemical composition
.Citric, benzoic, cinnamic, oleanolic, ursolic acids, sugars, ascorbic acid, glycoside vaccininin, pectin substances, pigments are found in the fruit.
Action and application
.Cranberry preparations in the form of syrup extract have an anti-fever effect and are a vitamin drink.
In domestic folk medicine cranberry morsels and syrup are used in avitaminosis and various inflammatory diseases accompanied by high fever, help reduce fever, quench thirst. Cranberry berries with honey are also used for colds, rheumatism, sore throat.
The berries are used in confectionery and canning industries and liquor production. Cranberry leaves were used in place of tea.
We use cranberry fruits as an antifever, vitamin remedy for various infectious diseases, in the form of syrup and infusion.
Coriander sow
.Coriander sow (coriander) is an annual herbaceous plant of the umbrella family, 30-70 cm tall. Stem round, hollow, glabrous, branched at the top. The leaves are regular. Root leaves long-petiolate, three-divided; lower stem leaves short-petiolate; upper leaves sessile, pinnately divided. The flowers are small pink, arranged in a compound umbrella. Seed coriander blooms from July through August. Fruits are brownish, globular two-seeds 2-5 mm in diameter. They ripen in August through September. Coriander seed coriander is a good nectar bearer (Fig. 33).
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The native range is southern Europe and Asia Minor. In its wild state coriander is found in the Caucasus, Crimea and Central Asia. It is widely cultivated in the central Black Earth strip of the European part of modern Russia, in Ukraine and the North Caucasus.
The ripe fruits are used. The ripe fruit has a pleasant aroma and flavor.
Chemical composition
.The fruit contains essential oil (0.5- 1.5%), the main component of which is linalool (60-80%), terpenes, fatty oil, traces of alkaloids, proteins. The herb contains an essential oil composed mainly of aldehydes.
The effects and uses of coriander
Seed coriander essential oil has choleretic, analgesic, antiseptic, antihemorrhoidal, expectorant and appetite enhancing properties. The use of coriander increases granulation and secretion of digestive glands.
Coriander preparations are used as a digestive aid, choleretic for liver and gallbladder diseases, flatulence, as an expectorant for lung diseases. The use of coriander externally is recommended for the treatment of wounds, as well as for the preparation of some medicines, as an aromatic and flavor-enhancing agent.
Included in the various fees. In Indian medicine, they are used as a stimulant, diuretic, stomachic and strengthening agent. The fruit is official in 16 countries, including the former USSR.
In domestic folk medicine application of coriander (fruit) is recommended for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as a stimulant and regulating its activity means, in the form of powder as an anthelmintic. The candied seeds are used in place of candy to kill mouth odor. The fruit is widely used in the liquor, canning and brewing industries, as well as in confectionery. Essential oil from the fruit is used in the perfume industry for cologne and as a raw material for the synthesis of fragrances.
In India, Babylon, Rome, Greece and a number of ancient countries and cities of the world coriander was known as a spicy and medicinal plant used for various diseases.
Fresh meat preserves well in summer by wetting it with a mixture of lightly crushed coriander seeds and vinegar.
The use of coriander is recommended by us as an aromatic, antiseptic and analgesic in gastritis and gastric ulcer, as well as duodenal ulcer..
