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1. Photos, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
2. Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism
3. Botanical description, reference data, useful information, illustrations
4. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology
5. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing

Lungwort officinalis, Pulmonaria officinalis. Photos of the plant, basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism

Basic scientific information, legends, myths, symbolism

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Family: Tin (Boraginaceae)

Origin: Europe and Western Asia

Area: Lungwort officinalis grows in forests, on mountain slopes, in gorges and swamps in Europe and Western Asia.

Chemical composition: Lungwort contains carotenoids, tannins, mucus, saponins, silicon, calcium, potassium and other trace elements. The roots and leaves of the plant contain alkaloids, including pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

Economic value: Lungwort is used in folk medicine to treat coughs, bronchitis, asthma, hemoptysis, hemorrhoids, stomach ulcers, gastritis, dysentery, headaches and other diseases. Lungwort is also used for the prevention and treatment of diseases of the lungs and bronchi in traditional Chinese medicine. Despite its medicinal properties, the lungwort is a poisonous plant due to the content of pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

Legends, myths, symbolism: In ancient Greek mythology, the lungwort was associated with the bee goddess, Demeter, and the Amazon who used the lungwort to heal wounds. Lungwort was also believed to help counter anger and calm the mind. Symbolically, lungwort is associated with purity, spiritual well-being, tranquility and protection. It is used in folk medicine for the treatment of various diseases, as it contains many useful substances, including essential oils, flavonoids and terpenes. Lungwort is also used in cooking, to flavor drinks, and to make herbal teas. In the symbolism of floristry, the lungwort can symbolize friendship, joy and generosity. In some cultures, it is also used in magical rituals to bring good luck, success, and spiritual protection.

Lungwort officinalis, Pulmonaria officinalis. Description, illustrations of the plant

Lungwort (pulmonaria). Legends, myths, history

There is a legend that the blue flowers of lungwort are the flowers of Adam, the first man. And the pink ones are the flowers of Eve, the first woman. Two different colors of flowers on one plant symbolize the unity of opposites.

There is even a riddle about this plant: What spring flower changes color four times? The answer is the lungwort flower: when it blooms, it turns pink, then purple, violet and blue.

And an ancient Slavic legend says: "If you drink the nectar from twenty pink and twenty purple lungwort flowers, then your heart will become healthy and kind, and your thoughts will be pure."

Author: Martyanova L.M.

Lungwort officinalis, Pulmonaria officinalis. Description of the plant, area, cultivation, application

It grows in broad-leaved and mixed forests, in fields, edges, among shrubs.

Perennial herbaceous plant 10-30 cm high. An upright, branched stem, covered with hard, short hairs, departs from the rhizome.

Leaves are basal, appear after flowering, long-petiolate, heart-shaped-ovate, form a basal rosette.

Stem leaves smaller than basal leaves, alternate, sessile. All leaves are white-spotted, rough, covered with fluff.

Blooms in April - May. Flowers - bells, located at the ends of the branches. Tubular corollas are initially bright, pink-crimson, attract bees and bumblebees. Within one to two weeks, on a shaggy thick stem, in addition to raspberry flowers, blue, purple bells appear. Nectar is available only in one-time crimson flowers. Flowers pollinated by insects lose their brightness.

After flowering, the lungwort is difficult to find, only a bunch of rough basal leaves remain on the ground.

The fruits consist of 4 nuts, rounded ovoid, pointed.

Leaves and stems contain tannins, mucous substances, carotene, resins, vitamin C, rutin, many salts, trace elements, especially manganese. Starch is found in the rhizome, which turns into sugar in spring and nourishes the plant.

In nutrition, young basal leaves are used. Vitamin salads, soups, mashed potatoes, side dishes for meat and fish dishes are prepared from them.

Lungwort salad with sorrel. Cut lungwort leaves and sorrel, add chopped green onions, grated apples, garlic, salt, mix. Season with sour cream, or mayonnaise, or vegetable oil, sprinkle with dill and parsley. 150 g lungwort, 50 g sorrel, 25 g green onions, 100 g apples, 1 clove of garlic, 30-50 g sour cream (or mayonnaise, or vegetable oil), salt, dill, parsley.

Lungwort salad with carrots and sorrel. Cut lungwort leaves and sorrel, add grated apples, carrots, garlic, chopped green onions, salt. Season with sour cream, or mayonnaise, or vegetable oil. 50 g lungwort, 150 g sorrel, 150 g carrots, 100 g apples, 1 clove of garlic, 30 g green onions, 100 g sour cream (or mayonnaise, or vegetable oil), salt.

Lungwort salad with sauerkraut. Cut lungwort leaves, mix with sauerkraut, chopped green onions, horseradish, cumin. Season with sour cream or mayonnaise, or vegetable oil. 150 g of lungwort, 150-200 g of sauerkraut, 30 g of green onion, 25 g of horseradish, 5 g of cumin, 25-50 g of sour cream (or mayonnaise, or vegetable oil).

Lungwort salad with beets and apples. Grate the beets, cut the apples into strips, chop the leaves of the lungwort. Mix everything, add juice (lemon, apple, cranberry), cumin seeds, dill, sugar or honey, season with sour cream or mayonnaise. 150-200 g of beets, 150 g of apples, 150 g of lungwort leaves, 50 ml of juice, 5 g of cumin and dill, 50 g of sour cream (or mayonnaise), sugar or honey, salt to taste.

Soup with lungwort. Boil potatoes, parsley root, carrots in salted meat broth or water, add chopped lungwort leaves, browned onions and boil for 3-5 minutes. Before serving, season with sour cream, sprinkle with dill and parsley. 500 ml of broth, 100 g of potatoes, 15 g of parsley, 50 g of carrots, 25 g of onions, 100-150 g of lungwort, 25 g of sour cream, salt, dill and parsley.

Shchi with lungwort. Boil cabbage, potatoes, carrots in salted broth or water, add chopped lungwort leaves, sorrel, salt, season with browned onions, tomato sauce and boil for 3-5 minutes. Before serving, put slices of hard-boiled eggs, sour cream, sprinkle with dill and parsley on a plate. 500 ml of broth, 150 g of cabbage, 50 g of potatoes, 25 g of carrots, 100 g of sorrel, 150 g of lungwort, 25 g of onion, 10 g of parsley root, 25 g of sour cream, 1 egg, 20-25 g of tomato sauce, salt, herbs dill and parsley.

Borscht with lungwort. In salted broth or water, boil chopped beets, carrots until half cooked, add potatoes, cabbage and continue to cook over low heat. 5-10 minutes before readiness, put chopped lungwort, browned onions, season with tomato sauce. Before serving, put on a plate circles of hard-boiled eggs, sour cream, sprinkle with dill and parsley. 500 ml of broth, 50 g of potatoes, 50 g of beets, 50 g of carrots, 25 g of onions, 150 g of lungwort, 150 g of cabbage, dill, 1 egg, 25 g of sour cream, 25-50 g of tomato sauce, salt, dill and parsley .

Heart stewed with lungwort. Bread the heart pieces in flour, fry until a pink crust forms, put in a saucepan, add chopped pickled cucumber without seeds and peel, carrots, beets, onions, bay leaves, peppers, pour a small amount of broth and simmer over low heat until cooked, periodically adding bouillon. At the end of cooking, salt, season with chopped lungwort, sour cream or tomato sauce and simmer until tender. 400 g of heart, 25-50 g of fat, 25 g of flour, 100-150 g of beets, 100 g of carrots, 100 g of pickled cucumber, 150 g of lungwort, 50 g of onion, 50-100 g of sour cream (or tomato sauce), spices, salt to taste. 158 Lungwort stewed with fish. Salt the pieces of fresh fish, breaded in flour and fry. Potatoes, cut into strips or cubes, also lightly fry. Place layers of fish, potatoes, chopped lungwort, onions in a duck dish or pot, potatoes again on top, pour fish broth or sour cream and simmer until tender. 300 g fish, 250 g potatoes, 75 g onions, 150-200 g lungwort, 100 g sour cream, 25 g flour, 30 g vegetable oil, salt.

Vegetables stewed with lungwort. Fry the pieces of meat, put them in a duck bowl, add chopped cabbage, carrots, onions, potatoes, a little broth and simmer over low heat. 10-15 minutes before readiness, salt, add spices, chopped lungwort and season with tomato sauce. Sprinkle with dill and parsley before serving. 400 g of meat, 50 g of fat or vegetable oil, 300-400 g of cabbage, 100 g of carrots, 50 g of onions, 200 g of potatoes, bay leaf, 150 g of lungwort, allspice and bitter, dill and caraway seeds to taste, 150- 200 g tomato sauce, salt.

In folk medicine, grass, leaves, stems of lungwort are used. They normalize metabolism, functions of the endocrine glands, improve blood composition, have an antiseptic, astringent, hemostatic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, expectorant, enveloping effect.

Infusion of herb lungwort. Infuse 10 g of herbs in 400 ml of boiling water in a thermos for 2 hours, strain. Drink 100 ml 4 times a day, 30 minutes before meals when coughing, hoarseness, diarrhea, gynecological diseases.

Infusion of herb lungwort. Infuse 25-30 g of herbs in 500 ml of boiling water in a thermos for 2 hours, strain. Drink chilled 100 ml 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals for gastritis, colitis with diarrhea, kidney disease, bladder, urolithiasis, hemorrhoidal bleeding, anemia. Take baths with diathesis, wash festering wounds, abscesses.

Infusion of herb lungwort. Infuse 100 g of lungwort herb in 500 ml of boiling water for 2 hours. Use for compresses, lotions, washing wounds, ulcers, burns, bedsores.

Powder from dried leaves to fill up wounds, ulcers.

Essence from a fresh, flowering plant is used in homeopathy.

No contraindications were found.

Leaves and flowers of lungwort officinalis are harvested during flowering. Dry in the shade, in a well-ventilated area. Stored in bags, boxes. Shelf life - 1 year.

The grass is harvested before the flowers bloom, dried in the shade, in attics, open verandas, in a well-ventilated area. Dried grass of dark green color with unblown flowers. Stored in boxes lined with paper. Shelf life - 1 year.

Authors: Alekseychik N.I., Vasanko V.A.

Lungwort officinalis, Pulmonaria officinalis L. Description, habitats, nutritional value, use in cooking

Lungwort is a perennial herbaceous plant from the borage family.

The leaves are rough, ovate, elongated, pointed.

The color of the flowers is unstable in the upper inflorescence pink, then turns blue and purple, depending on the period of flower development.

Grows on forest edges and clearings of deciduous and mixed forests.

It blooms one of the first, often simultaneously with snowdrops.

The chemical composition of lungwort is very rich and varied. The green parts of the plant contain tannins, silicon, potassium and calcium salts. 100 g of a fresh plant contains 3,8 mg of manganese, 20 mg of iron, 3,5 mg of boron, 3,7 mg of titanium, 0,7 mg of nickel, 0,5 mg of copper, 9 mg of vitamin C, rutin, carotene. It should be noted that vitamin C is preserved in lungwort after drying, boiling, salting and pickling.

People have long noticed that eating lungwort has a beneficial effect on the body.

Lungwort has long been used in folk medicine. In England, it is grown specifically as a salad plant.

There are a lot of lungwort in the forests, and with proper use, its number will not only not decrease, but can increase significantly.

It must be remembered that in no case should plants be pulled out with roots, you should not trample down those places where the lungwort grows, as it loves loose soil. But you can feed the lungwort with mineral vegetable mixtures and transplant it in the forest to more favorable conditions. It is even better to grow it in the beds.

Lungwort may be the earliest outdoor lettuce plant.

In the refrigerator, it can be stored in a plastic bag for 15 - 20 days.

Author: Koshcheev A.K.

Lungwort. reference Information

Lungwort is common throughout Europe, more common in oak forests of the forest-steppe and steppe zones of Ukraine.

In the forest one comes across a lungwort officinalis, called "fashionista" because of its multi-colored flowers.

In early spring, lungwort basal leaves are harvested for salads. In England, it is grown in large quantities on vegetable farms as a salad plant. Lungwort greens contain 6-10% tannins, vitamin C, carotene, 4% organosilicon compounds, mucus, resins and other organic substances. The leaves are sour-tart in taste, suitable for cooking not only salads, but also soups, borscht, okroshka. In early spring, young lungwort greens are dried a little, and then boiled to make vegetable puree or directly used for side dishes and seasonings for potatoes. Puree with sugar or salt and minced meat is an excellent filling for pies.

Rich in mucous and tannins, lungwort herb contains silicic and ascorbic acids. In folk medicine, it is used as an emollient, astringent and wound healing agent, as well as for the treatment of catarrhs ​​of the respiratory tract. In modern medicine, the drug cholelitin is obtained from the lungwort.

Author: Reva M.L.

Lungwort officinalis, Pulmonaria officinalis. Recipes for use in traditional medicine and cosmetology

Ethnoscience:

• From cough: Pour 1 tablespoon of dry lungwort with 1 cup of boiling water for 10-15 minutes. Strain and drink the resulting infusion as a tea 2-3 times a day.
• For a cold: make an infusion of dry lungwort and use it to gargle several times a day.
• For bronchitis: pour 2 tablespoons of dry lungwort with 1 cup of boiling water for 15-20 minutes. Strain and drink the resulting infusion 2-3 times a day.
• For asthma: pour 2 tablespoons of dry lungwort with 1 cup of boiling water for 15-20 minutes. Strain and drink the resulting infusion 2-3 times a day.
• For stomach pain: Pour 1 tablespoon of dry lungwort with 1 cup of boiling water for 10-15 minutes. Strain and drink the resulting infusion before meals.

Cosmetology:

• Mask for the face: mix 2 tablespoons lungwort with 1 egg white and 1 tablespoon honey to make a thick paste. Apply to face for 15-20 minutes, then rinse with warm water. This mask will help moisturize and soften the skin.
• Face tonic: pour 2 tablespoons of dry lungwort with 1 cup of boiling water for 10-15 minutes. Strain and use as a facial toner to hydrate and soothe the skin.
• For hair care: add lungwort to your shampoo or hair conditioner to strengthen your hair and soften your scalp.
• Body lotion: mix lungwort with essential oil and glycerin to make a body lotion that will help hydrate and soften your skin.
• Aromatic massage: add a few drops of lungwort oil to your base body massage oil to relax and soothe your mind and body.

Attention! Before use, consult with a specialist!

Lungwort officinalis, Pulmonaria officinalis. Tips for growing, harvesting and storing

Lungwort (Pulmonaria officinalis) is a perennial plant with beautiful flowers that is used in folk medicine.

Tips for growing, harvesting and storing lungwort:

Cultivation:

• Lungwort officinalis prefers a penumbra and moist soil.
• The plant does not need special care and can grow in any temperate climate.
• The plant can be grown from seeds or cuttings.

Workpiece:

• Lungwort leaves can be used fresh or dried.
• Leaves should be harvested during flowering when they contain the maximum amount of nutrients.
• To dry the leaves, hang the ties in a cool, dry place or use a dryer.

Storage:

• Fresh lungwort leaves can be stored in the refrigerator in a plastic bag or container for several days.
• Dried leaves can be stored in a glass jar or container in a cool, dry place for several months.

Lungwort has many health benefits, including anti-inflammatory and antitussive properties. Lungwort leaves are used in folk medicine to treat respiratory problems, coughs, and other ailments.

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