Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum)
Description:
Sweet woodruff is a plant up to 30 cm tall, observed from April to July in beech forests. The plant has white flowers with four petals each. The snow-white flowers are only around 1 cm in size. The traditional name for sweet woodruff is scented pearl. It is also called bulomajster, prvenec, želvenica, prehlajenka, pink pearl. It is a well-known medicinal plant. It helps among other things with insomnia and nervousness. The herb is collected before flowering and dried.
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| velkavrh17. 09. 2017 10:37:30 |
The traditional old name is also sweet woodruff. Botanically correct is sweet woodruff-and it really smells. Local names are also Waldmeister, firstling, yellowwort, pink pearl, coldwort. The plant has long been collected as a medicinal plant. It treats insomnia and nervousness among other things. We preferably collect it before flowering and dry it. In some mountain hut I even drank a brandy soak of sweet woodruff. I haven't found brandy soak in the literature.
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| janezpol31. 03. 2019 11:46:56 |
In the hut on Lubnik they have (had) it soaked in brandy , it grows along the path, sometimes they also soak it in wine for preparing bowle
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