Meadow Sweet - alcohol?
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| Filipendula ulmaria | Meadowsweet | herb | river banks, ditches, hay meadows, roadside verges | leaves added to wines and preserves as a sweetener | anti-inflamatory, antirheumatic, astringent, taken for acid indigestion, heartburn, aspirin substitute without stomach irritation, used for rheumatism, tea for flu, cellulitis, kidney and bladder pain. | flavinol glycosides, phenolic glycosides (salicylates), salicin, volatile oil (salicylaldehyde), polyphenols (tannins), vit C | dried flowers used in herbal tobacco, | considered sacred by the druids. Strewn in houses, or bunches in vases, for the smell. One of the nine flowers used to create Blodeuwedd. Use flowering plant early summer |
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Meadowsweet is a natural aspirin.
Soaked in alcohol, a tincture, it makes a good topical analgesic base for aching joints.
I know it's used as a flavouring, but I wouldn't add much.
I use it, have used it for years, but it's not a food or a drink. It's not like elderflowers, put it that way.
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Soaked in alcohol, a tincture, it makes a good topical analgesic base for aching joints.
I know it's used as a flavouring, but I wouldn't add much.
I use it, have used it for years, but it's not a food or a drink. It's not like elderflowers, put it that way.
M
I've never tried it as a hangover cure.......it is gentle on the stomach though, unlike commercial aspirin.
I use meadowsweet as an ingredient in potpourri or on its own to keep clothes smelling fresh.
One thing, its pollen is a very noticeable green, you notice it in the bee hives so you know when it's flowing even if you haven't seen it yet. I wonder if the flowers would at least impart a decent green colour to alcohol?
One thing, its pollen is a very noticeable green, you notice it in the bee hives so you know when it's flowing even if you haven't seen it yet. I wonder if the flowers would at least impart a decent green colour to alcohol?
My tinctures are a kind of brown/green colour.
I admit that I have never noticed the pollen being green. The stuff in my garden is very yellow, and the flowers I dry for tea are very pale yellow too.
The seeds are green at first though.
I admit that I have never noticed the pollen being green. The stuff in my garden is very yellow, and the flowers I dry for tea are very pale yellow too.
The seeds are green at first though.
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