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Pasternak

The cultivation, care and use of useful properties and recipes parsnip


Botanical characteristics Pasternak

Parsnip is a biennial plant, growing no higher than two meters. The stalk is straight, branching at the top. On thin stems are large long leaves, held on long stalks. Flowers plants yellow in color, gathered in a cyme. The fruits of parsnip – greenish-yellow achenes, which are flattened laterally. When the fruit ripens, it splits into 2 fruit, each of which has one seed. Ripening occurs in early autumn.

Wild parsnip is not found. It grows throughout Russia, Central Asia, preferring to grow on glades, dry places, fields and gardens. In the Caucasus it is also grown for medicinal and culinary purposes.


Growing parsnip

Parsnips – plant is unpretentious, loving light and resistant to drought. The soil for growing Pasternak will work best for you fertile, friable loam or sandy loam soil, although this plant can easily grow in any soil. To grow parsnips is necessary in the second year after the soil will make the manure – this is required to root, not much branched. Pasternak likes moisture but does not tolerate water stagnation.

Parsnips are most often propagated by self-seeding. If the seeds are planted in early spring, shoots appear after 3 weeks. The seeds quickly germinated and the seedlings appeared earlier, seeds are soaked for 2-3 days in the stimulators. After soaking seeds should be rinsed with warm water and allow to dry to a state of fluidity. Many are leaving the seeds for germination 14 days before planting. To do this, soak them for a day, not forgetting to change the water every 2 hours. Rinse the seeds, they need to wrap in cheesecloth and put in a warm room. After drying, the seeds should be moistened, adding a little water. On 10-12-th day, they begin to germinate. Once the seeds germinate, the gauze they need to put in the fridge for a couple of hours for hardening.

Sow the seeds in rows, closing up to 1.5 cm deep into the soil. After sowing seeds, you need to roll the soil to the shoots came together. When the seedlings appear 2 true leaves, you need to do thinning in such a way that between plants was 5 cm distance On the appearance of the 7 leaves thinning again, leaving the distance between plants of 10 cm.


Care Pasternak

The plant should be watered as needed. The soil with the crops need to loosen and to weed. Pasternak responds well to fertilization, but theirbe charged only in liquid form. Per season is necessary to conduct not more than four dressings. The first dressing is done after thinning plants make nitrogen fertilizers. The second fertilizing is done 3 weeks after the first. This time make potash and fertilizers containing phosphorus. In the first 2 months parsnips are very slow growing, so the soil should be loosened. Watering should be abundant, but rare.

Health benefits of parsnip

The roots of the plant contain a variety of vitamins, minerals, ascorbic acid. Parsnip root is fleshy, so it has many nutritional elements. The plant contains potassium, which is why Pasternak is used to reduce the water content in the human body.

Parsnip is used as a means to improve appetite and normalize digestion. A decoction of the roots of the plant helps reduce pain, reduces the risk of attacks of angina. Parsnip is used as a great diuretic.

Nowadays the plant is used in colic in the stomach and liver, cough and sputum.

Application of Pasternak

Folk medicine has long and widely used parsnips for the treatment of many illnesses and address ailments. It is used in dropsy and cardiovascular diseases. Parsnip acts as a tonic. Parsnip is a plant that drugs which restore the body and invigorate the spirit. It is used for expanding blood vessels.

From dried flowers and fruits of the plant are preparing a drug used in the neuroses, diseases of the stomach and nervous system and other diseases.

The broth parsnip urolithiasis. Take 1 tablespoon of powder made from dry leaves of the plant, pour 200 ml of boiling water. Put 15 minutes on the fire. Strain the finished broth, it is taken 1 tablespoon three times a day.

A decoction of the roots of parsnip. For its preparation you need to take 1 teaspoon of plant roots and grind them into powder. Pour the finished powder 500 ml boiling water and bring to a boil. Leave for 15 minutes on the fire. Filter the decoction and take 50 ml three times a day.

Infusion of parsnip with a weak immune system. Take 2 tablespoons of the rootplants, grind and pour 1 Cup of boiling water. Pour into a thermos and leave for 12 hours to infuse. Then add 1 tablespoon of honey and take the infusion of 1 tablespoon for half an hour before meals 4 times a day.

Analgesic broth. Preparing the broth is very easy. To do this, take 2 tablespoons of powder fresh parsnip root, mix with 50 grams of sugar and pour a glass of water. Put the composition on the fire for 15 minutes, closing the lid. After leaving the broth for 8 hours to infuse. Take it 4 times a day for 1 tablespoon 30 minutes before eating.


Contraindications to the use of parsnip

Contraindications to the use of Pasternak is not available.