Effect:
contracting, healing
Areas of application:
Hemorrhoids, wounds, inflamed skin areas
Plant parts used:
leaves and roots
Collection time:
May to September
To find:
Grows in fields, gardens, wasteland and ditches up to 1500 meters.
Ingredients:
Bitter substances, sugar, fatty oil, mannitol, choline, lactucopicrin, gum, organic acids, iron, calcium, carotene
Miscellaneous:
Common sowthistle was cultivated as a vegetable in the Middle Ages.
In the kitchen, the plant is used as a delicious wild vegetable, whose leaves and roots make excellent dishes. It goes well with boiled beef soup, in all vegetable soups and as a salad, but not as a seasoning, but as the main ingredient.
The yellow flowers become the flower essence “Milk Thistle”. It is designed for all those who do not love themselves and do everything to please others, even at the cost of self-sacrifice. Even at the price of having to deny your own personality.