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 Do you think that there are only clouds in the sky? And here and there! Try to look at a summer afternoon on the forest glade, the sun-drenched, and there you will see a pink cloud, exuding a pleasant bitter-spicy aroma. This is oregano.
They say that the most fragrant oregano grows on the mountain slopes of the Mediterranean, but also our Russian smells delightfully.
In ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome was considered a gourmet oregano spice. For these purposes, it now cultivated in France.
Origanum
Origanum vulgare L.
- A perennial herb of the family Labiatae. Common name: amulet, mint timber, dushmyanka, dushnitsa, pchelolyub, bloshnichnik, upland kostolomnaya grass klopovnaya grass Klopova
Rhizome creeping from oregano, branching, brownish color. Direct branched stems reach 40-100sm. in height. The upper leaves are egg-shaped or ellipse. The lower leaves are larger and petioles. Small flowers mauve in racemes and panicles at the ends of shoots. Flowering oregano in July and August. Sometimes in September. Fruits of oregano - trihedral nuts. They ripen in August - September. Oregano grows on forest edges, on dry meadows, among shrubs. You can see it in parks and abandoned wastelands.
For medicinal and cosmetic purposes
cut with a sharp knife flowering tops of Origanum to 25-30cm long. Dried outdoors in the shade or in a well-ventilated shed, the attic. After drying, oregano flowers and leaves separated from the stalks, stems discarded. Properly dried raw material exudes a pleasant bitter and spicy flavor.
Herb oregano contains vitamins B1, B2, C, essential oil, tannins, volatile, coumarins, flavonoids, phenol carboxylic acids, alkaloids, as well as antiseptic ingredient thymol.
- Oregano is used for medicinal purposes such famous ancient physicians like Hippocrates and Dioscorides. Modern science through research confirmed that
decoctions and infusions of herbs oregano
strengthen the immune system, is removed from the human body toxins, and serves as the prevention of cancer.
- Tea of oregano helps with angina, influenza, herpes, cold.
- But especially effective oregano with nervousness, irritability, tearfulness, temper, irritability, headaches, insomnia, and various fears.
- Infusions of oregano help relieve dental pain, relieve pain with colic, arthritis, rheumatism, gout, decoctions prescribed for diseases of the liver, gallbladder, to raise the tone of the body.
- Tea of oregano used against early aging. It is very useful to women during menopause.
- Additionally, oregano has the property accelerate the process of digestion and excretion of fat, thereby promoting weight loss.
- Tampons soaked in marjoram, hemorrhoids applied to the sore spot.
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Infusion of oregano.
1st. a spoonful of dry raw pour 1 cup boiling water, leave for half an hour, drain. Take ¼ cup 3-4 times a day.
- Essential oil of oregano is used in the manufacture of perfume soap, lotions, colognes.
- Marjoram pour clothing to protect it from moths. But it's best to put it in a gauze bag and hang it in the closet.
- Oregano rejuvenates and regenerates the skin. For this face, morning and evening wipe
broth oregano
. 2 teaspoons dried marjoram pour a cup of boiling water, cover, and even better to put in a thermos and insist 30-40 minutes. Strain. The broth should be every day to cook a new one. Or make him the ice.
- If you add 1 liter of the broth in the bath, the body will acquire softness and smoothness. The bath temperature should not exceed 38 degrees. If you take the bath 2 times a week, then gradually the skin becomes soft as the most exquisite atlas.
- Broth oregano moisten the problem areas of cellulite. Every day for a month. You can buy in a drugstore oregano oil, mix it with vegetable oil of 1: 8 and rubbed into the skin.
- To strengthen the hair growth and get rid of dandruff, oregano broth rinse your head after each wash. Hair acquire softness, silkiness and flavor that attracts men.
- In the old wise woman helped keep the family when her husband started to "look to the side." Tea made from oregano reduces the raging sexual desire, without compromising the potency of men, and only returning to his family life, as if a refreshing and strengthening the feeling between spouses.
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Tea loyalty
. 1 teaspoon brew 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 5-10 minutes. Add 1 teaspoon of honey.
Oregano can not drink for pregnant women and an exacerbation of gastric and duodenal ulcers.
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