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Bot.: Filipendula ulmaria

Mädesüß/meadowsweet

Healing power:
- for fever,

- painrelieving,

- rheumatism,

- arthritis,

- flu,

- gout.

How to use:
You can use the whole plant, but the best taste the flowers have got. They taste and smell like almond and honey.
In homoeopathy the remedy spirea ulmaria, which is made from the Meadowsweet roots is used for rheumatic fever and sciatica.
Recipe for the Meadowsweet tea:
Pour 1/8 litre boiling water on 1 dessert spoon Meadowsweet , let it draw for 10 minutes, then pass it through a sieve. Drink 1 cup of Meadowsweet tea 2 times per day.

Description of the plant:
Meadowsweet grows perennial and can withstand frost. It reaches a height up to 1,40 m and gets white flowers. You find it at ditches, which shows the demand for a humid and wet location. Meadowsweet belongs to the family of the rosaceae.

Propagation:
Sow the seeds from March indoors in flats. The soil has to be humid. When the danger of frost is over, transplant outdoors.

Ingredients:
Salicylicacid, essential oil, flavonglycosides, tanning agents, mucous.