Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
The sea buckthorn is a spiky shrub that grows in thickets alongside rivers, in swamp regions on sands and rubbles, especially in saline geologic formations. The sea buckthorn is harvested during August – September. It is recommended to harvest the sea buckthorn fruits prior to the first freezing, which causes a […]
Cherry tails (cerasorum stipites)
They contain flavones, saponin, potassium serum, tannin,. The later free, through one antocianine monomer, precisely cianidol clorhydrate. In dosage the cherry tails gave 4.2 % and the sour cherry tails gave 3.1 %. The dihidrovogonin, genistein, naringenol and quercetol were identified of the flavones. The first if more abundant in cherry […]
Thyme Leaf (Herba Serpylli)
It is an herb commonly encountered on hills, pastures and alpine meadows and herder accessible places like rocky areas. It is used as a spice and for medicinal teas.
Main components: volatile oil (timol, carvacrol), cafeic and rosmarinic acid, tannine, mucus and resins.
Properties internal – calming, coleretic, colagogue, intestinal and […]
Alder buckthorn (Rhamnus frangula)
The alder buckthorn is a shrub, encountered in different regions, in meadows, forest outskirts and glades. It has other popular names: glossy buckthorn.
The bark of the young boughs and shanks – cortex frangulae – is used for medicinal purposes. The medicinal properties are known since 1300. the bark contains antrachinonic principles […]
Coriander (Coriandrum sativum)
The coriander is an Asian plant, known since the old ages. In our country the plant is cultivated on large surfaces. It has slightly spicy and very rich in volatile oils seeds, with a sweet and somewhat heavy aroma. It is interesting that when fresh the coriander seeds have an odor that is […]