From July to August in the clearings, along roads, in meadows, on hillsides, you can find beautiful purple-pink flowers resembling a shaggy whisk. The leaves of these plants are dark green, pierced by black veins on top, on the lower side - much lighter.
This is oregano. In our country, the plant is better known as oregano. Many world-famous biologists equate its beneficial properties with the actions of 18 antibiotics. This unique plant is able to kill even very drug-resistant microbes that are able to quickly adapt to new antibiotics. He can fight the Staphylococcus aureus, which has been terrorizing all hospitals in the world for many years.
The very rich composition of the plant allows it to be used to treat a wide range of diseases. Oregano is used in cooking, cosmetology, and magicians - for witchcraft rituals.
Why is oregano so good? Its useful properties are due to a large amount of essential oil, free alcohols, carvacrol, which can kill even giardia and other phenols.
Medicinal herb Oregano in folk medicine of all countries has been used in the treatment of seizures, paralysis, epileptic seizures. She was treated with gynecological diseases and stomach cramps.
Oregano grass, whose properties are recognized by official medicine, serves as the basis for the widest range of drugs for the treatment of the nervous system, intestines, normalization of the sweat glands, and relief of bronchial diseases.
For colds, wounds, abscesses, skin rashes, oregano is also used, the properties of which are not limited to wound healing or antispasmodic characteristics.
If a person is pursued by insomnia, stress, bronchitis, oregano will also help him. The beneficial properties of grass are preserved only in the right raw materials.
Collect oregano in the second year of flowering. Cut so that as few as possible stems fall into the collection. If you dry the raw materials under a canopy at a temperature of 30-40 degrees, then dried grass can be used as a spice for cooking a variety of dishes. Their dried herbs can also be used to prepare infusions or decoctions for the treatment of various diseases.
To get essential oil from oregano, it is recommended to hydrodistillate the grass immediately after harvesting, but this is best done industrially.
Here are a few recipes from different areas in which oregano is used. Its beneficial properties are used to regulate the monthly cycle of women.
Three pinch of oregano are brewed with a glass of boiling water, defended, filtered, and then drunk all day in small sips. Such a composition is strictly contraindicated in pregnant women: it can cause a miscarriage. It is this property of the herb that was often used by folk healers to prevent unwanted childbirth. On the other hand, pregnant women can use broths for washing. Oregano whitens and nourishes the skin well, makes it fresh, attractive.
In cooking, oregano is an indispensable spice for the preparation of pastes, pickles, poultry or fish dishes.
To prepare an English paste, you need to finely chop and stew 250 g of young beef and the same amount of turkey pulp in a bath. Then mix the stew with the fried onions, add a few crushed juniper berries, half a spoonful of oregano pepper, 150 g cow's butter. Pass through a blender, put in molds, cool.
In cosmetology, oregano extracts are used to supplement creams. In addition, with dry skin, rashes, baths with oregano or washing its infusions are recommended.
A romantic date will be more successful, according to magicians and sorcerers, if during it you light a candle with oregano in a smoker or drop a few drops of oil into an aroma lamp.