Garden Angelica - Uncover The Healing Qualities Of The Herb (Part 1)
Garden angelica is a biennial with a vertical rootstock up to 6 centimeters thick.
The rootstock is branched and contains white or yellowish milk.
Roots contain the milk, as well.
Hollow stem is branched at the top and grows to a height of 2.
5-3 meters.
The lower part of the stem is reddish and lightly wrinkled, but the upper part of it, in its turn, is violet.
Leaves are up to 80 centimeters long.
The tiny blossoms are greenish or green white arranged in compound clusters shaped like half of the ball.
The herb blooms from June till August.
Fruits are approximately 8 millimeters long.
All parts of the herb have pleasant aroma.
The plant can be found in damp meadow, riverside, brushwood and other places with humus rich soil.
You must not confuse the herb with wild angelica.
Wild angelica has dark green leaves.
Its blossoms are white or rosy.
The upper part of the stem is wrinkled.
Root is woody with weak unpleasant aroma.
Garden angelica can be cultivated.
You should collect rootstock and roots of the herb.
Some nations use leaves and fruits for medical purposes, as well.
Rootstock and root should be collected either in autumn of the first year of vegetation (September and October) or in early spring of the second year.
You should carefully get the rootstock with roots.
Avoid damaging them.
Remove soil and discard any above-ground part left.
Wash the rootstock and roots under running cold water.
Reduce the thick parts of the rootstock to smaller pieces and air dry them.
You can dry them in a drying camera at a temperature between 37 and 40 degrees Celsius, as well.
Leaves should be collected before the florescence or at the beginning of it.
Spread them in a single layer and dry the herbs at a temperature between 37 and 40 degrees Celsius to retain the active substances.
Fruits should be collected when they are ripe (they become grey brown).
Cut the clusters of fruits and air dry them.
Afterwards, remove adulterants.
The rootstock is branched and contains white or yellowish milk.
Roots contain the milk, as well.
Hollow stem is branched at the top and grows to a height of 2.
5-3 meters.
The lower part of the stem is reddish and lightly wrinkled, but the upper part of it, in its turn, is violet.
Leaves are up to 80 centimeters long.
The tiny blossoms are greenish or green white arranged in compound clusters shaped like half of the ball.
The herb blooms from June till August.
Fruits are approximately 8 millimeters long.
All parts of the herb have pleasant aroma.
The plant can be found in damp meadow, riverside, brushwood and other places with humus rich soil.
You must not confuse the herb with wild angelica.
Wild angelica has dark green leaves.
Its blossoms are white or rosy.
The upper part of the stem is wrinkled.
Root is woody with weak unpleasant aroma.
Garden angelica can be cultivated.
You should collect rootstock and roots of the herb.
Some nations use leaves and fruits for medical purposes, as well.
Rootstock and root should be collected either in autumn of the first year of vegetation (September and October) or in early spring of the second year.
You should carefully get the rootstock with roots.
Avoid damaging them.
Remove soil and discard any above-ground part left.
Wash the rootstock and roots under running cold water.
Reduce the thick parts of the rootstock to smaller pieces and air dry them.
You can dry them in a drying camera at a temperature between 37 and 40 degrees Celsius, as well.
Leaves should be collected before the florescence or at the beginning of it.
Spread them in a single layer and dry the herbs at a temperature between 37 and 40 degrees Celsius to retain the active substances.
Fruits should be collected when they are ripe (they become grey brown).
Cut the clusters of fruits and air dry them.
Afterwards, remove adulterants.
- All parts of the herb contain essential oil and furanocoumarins.
Rootstock and roots contain essential oil (up to 1.
5 percent), leaves contain up to 0.
48 percent essential oil, but fruits - up to 1 percent.
Leaves, in addition, contain flavonoids, but fruits - oil. - The herb has antispasmodic, perspiratory, expectorant and diuretic qualities.
In addition, it is proven to stimulate appetite and improve digestion. - Remedies made of the herb are used to treat deal with diseases of airways and lung diseases.
In addition, they are used in case of rheumatism, gout, strain, bruise, digestive disorders, spasms, insomnia, hysterics and other health problems.