Many people wonder, "Ramson - what is it?" The answer is simple: it is edible greens, one of the oldest plants belonging to the family of onion.The common people, this plant is called a bear onion, wild garlic, chenzeli, levurdoy, wild onions, and Kalb.
Appearance plants
Still, wild garlic - what is this plant and how it looks?It is an elongated bulb, a thickness of 1 cm. Stem Ramson has a three-way, the height of 15-50 cm. The leaves of the onion Representative shorter than the stem, flat, slightly tapered, the width of a little more than 3-4 centimeters.Flowering garlic begins in May and ends June.Leek plant because of indiscriminate collection is listed in the Red Book of Ukraine and Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as in Russia.
locus of garlic
On the question of where it grows wild garlic, can not be answered unequivocally.After all, it is prevalent in Central, Northern and Southern Europe, but also grows in Turkey and Ukraine, is widely represented in the Caucasus and Belarus.And even the French can boast the fact that this amazing plant is found in their forests.Wild bear bow is quite unpretentious, so the area is part of its growth captures even tundra.He prefers wild garlic shady forests near rivers.Although today leek is grown as vegetable crops, many people prefer to collect it in the woods.Frequent collection of plants leads to the depletion of natural resources.
Precautions consumption
ground part of garlic is similar to the leaves of poisonous plants such as lily of the valley or hellebore, so while collecting requires some experience and some neat.Wild garlic to feed cattle is not recommended, both because of the substances contained in it, meat is unpleasant to the taste, and milk and all changes its color to yellow.
use of bear food onion
Eat wild garlic can be as raw as well as used for the preparation of foods.In cooking, use the stems, leaves and bulb plants.Leaves of wild garlic harvested in the spring, before it bloom.Judging by the names, it is difficult to determine its taste.And by itself the question: "Ramson - it's still, onion or garlic?" The taste of wild garlic leaves more like garlic flavor with some green onions, garlic but much more tender leaves.They contain large amounts of vitamin C. The collected foliage plants can be used as seasoning to various meat dishes.Lay it in soups and gravies, added to salads, but also make the filling for pies.Amazing taste of marinated garlic - here it stands in the singular queen dishes.
Medicinal properties of wild garlic
How about medicinal plants of it became known in the ancient world.Previously, wild garlic known as a miracle plant, and therefore the question of an ignorant man, "Ramson - what is it?" - It is possible to answer that it is a medicinal plant.It was believed that wild garlic cleanses the stomach and blood.Ramson is used in zagnoeniyah, worms, scurvy, intestinal infections, atherosclerosis.In ancient times, Aesculapius advised to add wild garlic in the food and water during epidemics of cholera and plague.Bear onions extremely useful for the heart, it can lower blood pressure and block the formation of cholesterol plaques.Ramson be taken when vitamin deficiency, hypertension, atherosclerosis and colds.And the plant is used as a kind of toothpaste, because enough to chew a piece of garlic, as most bacteria in the oral cavity are destroyed substances, volatile production, which are extracted from plant tissues miracle plant.Its juice and finely chopped leaves are used externally for various skin diseases, such as herpes and warts.
