Table of collection of medicinal plants by months. How to collect and store medicinal plants. Soothing tea for severe stress

What herbs when to collect.

In April, it's time to collect the first herbs, buds, flowers, leaves, tree bark. Every herbalist knows that April herbs have special powers and unique properties. Many are waiting for this time for a whole year in order to have time to collect everything that is needed for the preparation of infusions, potions and medicines according to folk recipes. Not everything can be collected in April healing herbs but only those that are recommended.

Birch buds. Birch buds are harvested together with twigs at a time when they swell, but have not yet given leaves. Branches with buds are usually dried in a warm, dry and ventilated area. After they become dried, the buds can be removed from the branches, used for their intended purpose, or stored further. In April, when the buds are just ready to bloom, they contain maximum amount useful substances. As soon as the buds open and the first leaves emerge, most of these substances are quickly used up for the necessary growth, development and functioning of the leaves. Therefore, their collection in April would be ideal. Sometimes the buds are harvested at the end of March, but sometimes this is complicated by the fact that the birches simply cannot be approached because of the snow.
In addition to birch trees, pine buds are harvested in April. If the scales are still firmly pressed against the kidney, but the kidney is already beginning to swell, then this means that they are ready to be harvested.
In April, black poplar buds are also harvested (relevant for the Forge).
LEAVES
In the middle or end of April (collection until mid-May), lingonberry leaves begin to bloom. At this time, lingonberry leaves can be collected. Now they contain a large number of various useful substances. Lingonberry leaves in April are strong and rich. Harvested in early spring, they not only have good properties, but can be stored many times longer than those harvested in summer.
In April bearberry leaves are harvested. Calamus marsh, valerian, elecampane, angelica, lure, violet are harvested.
BARK
Oak bark. The bark from young oak trees is harvested before the first leaves begin to bloom. As you yourself can already understand, at this time useful substances, various juices and vitamins circulate inside the tree. The bark on centuries-old oaks is often already dead, and in order to get close to the bark that still retains its functions, you will have to damage the trunk of the old oak very badly. Young oaks easily survive the loss of a small part of the bark.
In addition to oak, herbalists collect the bark of common viburnum and alder buckthorn.
ROOTS
Do not forget about the roots. Plant roots have very strong properties that are often used in traditional medicine and various folk recipes starting from delicious recipes dishes and ending with medicines and magic.
In April, when swelling buds require more substances, vitamins, when after a long winter the plants begin to absorb everything that has accumulated during this time from the thawing earth, the roots contain a lot of different substances.
In April, the roots of elecampane, male fern, erect cinquefoil, snake knotweed, dandelion roots, burnet, and burdock are harvested.

And, of course, do not forget about such rules of any herbalist as:
It is better to collect on clear and sunny days.
You need to collect only healthy-looking plants.
Do not take plants near roads, industrial enterprises, factories, outbuildings.
Fruits and buds are best collected in the morning - 8-9 hours.
It is better to collect bark, roots and leaves in the late afternoon - 16-18 hours.
Collected plants must be thoroughly washed from dirt, dust and earth.

May is in no way inferior to April in terms of the number of plants that enter their maximum stage of development. The following are lists of plants that can be harvested when the last month of spring is outside:

Grass: spring adonis, May lily of the valley, medicinal dandelion, shepherd's purse, club club moss, common plantain, tricolor violet, horsetail, celandine, knotweed, cuff, nettle, oxalis, cat's foot.

Leaves: warty birch, lingonberry, stinging nettle, May lily of the valley, coltsfoot, spring primrose, blackcurrant, common bearberry, trileaf watch, plantain, white lamb, strawberry, bergenia.

Buds: warty birch, Siberian fir, forest pine, black poplar.

Flowers: red hawthorn, May lily of the valley, coltsfoot, spring primrose, bird cherry, white lamb, coltsfoot.

Roots: angelica officinalis, burdock, medicinal dandelion, medicinal comfrey, evading peony, creeping couch grass, common horseradish, coltsfoot, marshmallow, bergenia.

Bark: oak, common viburnum, alder buckthorn.

Chaga and Icelandic moss are also harvested in May.
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The first month of summer is June, a great time for all herbalists. The plant world is in full force, many plants have already faded and continue to collect juices in order to grow and nourish the fruits. Collecting herbs for their intended use is not at all the privilege of experienced herbalists. Anyone can do this. However, here it is worth understanding that you need to be well versed in the types of plants, how they are harvested and used. Otherwise, it can lead to very unpleasant situations, up to poisoning. Collect only those plants that you have an accurate idea of. If you are in doubt about which plant is in front of you, then stop trying to take it with you.

A few more tips for those who are going to go to the forest, field, meadows to collect medicinal herbs.
1. In no case do not collect plants near industrial centers and near roads. Also avoid fields and nearby areas that are treated with herbicides and pesticides. Avoid the landfill. It is best, as the old wisdom says, to collect herbs in such a distance from human habitation where the cock crow is not heard.
2. It is recommended to collect plants in the morning, immediately after the dew has dried. It is believed that you should not collect plants after rain. Harvest in dry weather.
3. Do not take herbs that are damaged by diseases and have obvious differences, defects, damage.
4. Put different herbs in different bags and dry separately.
5. The best container for collecting plants is a basket, since here the grass does not crumple and does not lose its properties.
6. After the collected grass is brought home, you should quickly check your crop, weed out other types of grass that you don’t need, and quickly start drying. This should not be delayed, since delay in drying can cause a loss of a mass of useful properties and plant substances. Drying can preserve everything beneficial features until you decide to use them.
7. Use dry, warm and ventilated places to dry. At the same time, the grass should be laid out on some dry surface, preferably made of wood or paper. In this case, the plants should not be crumple or piled in a heap. The grass should lie evenly and in a thin layer so that it can dry quickly and does not start mold, rot or pests in it. The faster you can dry the plants, the better your raw materials will be.
8. Drying is considered complete when the leaves are ground into powder; fruits do not stick together, do not smear, do not secrete juice; the roots and bark do not bend, but break with a bang when bent.
9. Dried plants should be stored in dry and dark rooms.

So, what plants need to be collected and harvested in June:

Leaves: birch, primrose, bearberry, shepherd's purse, stinging nettle, coltsfoot, club moss, European hoof, currant, sweet clover, wild strawberry, cornflower, fireweed, Veronica officinalis, May lily of the valley, warty birch, three-leaf watch, plantain large, wormwood, blueberries, black henbane.

Needles: Siberian fir, forest pine.

Grass: mountaineer, medicinal sweet clover, gray jaundice, small centaury, parsnip, shepherd's purse.

Buds: warty birch, Siberian fir, forest pine.

Flowers: hawthorn, mountain ash, lilac, wild strawberry, cornflower, clover inflorescences, lime blossom, officinalis veronica, black elderberry, flowering tops of celandine, May lily of the valley, chamomile, heart-shaped linden, coltsfoot.

Fruits: wild strawberry, red hawthorn, bird cherry.

Roots: angelica officinalis, burdock, medicinal dandelion, medicinal comfrey, evading peony, common horseradish, orchis.

Chaga, twigs of marsh wild rosemary, "Christmas trees" of horsetail.
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July for the herbalist is a real expanse. The middle of summer, when meadows, fields and forests abound with herbs and flowers, when fruits begin to ripen, this is the time to prepare useful and healing potions for the whole year. If you like to collect herbs and use the gifts of mother nature, then here you can find out what kind of herbs, leaves, flowers, fruits, roots, and so on, to go out in July.

Grass: hemlock, blue cornflower, sweet clover, Ivan tea, meadow clover, field bindweed, St. John's wort, goose and erect cinquefoil, coltsfoot, thyme, horsetail, succession, celandine, sage, white lamb, etc. lamb, thistle, heather, mountaineer, hare cabbage, meadowsweet, oregano, centaury, calendula, two-leaved love, mint, wormwood, large plantain, motherwort (deaf nettle), medicinal chamomile, narrow-leaved fireweed, stinging nettle, mullein scepter-shaped, creeping thyme, common yarrow, tricolor violet, spring adonis, marsh calamus, wild rosemary marsh, gray jaundice, reticulate larkspur, common toadflax, medicinal dandelion, parsnip, common cudweed.
Leaves: storekeeper, oregano, calendula, centaury, two-leafed love, mullein, mint, wild strawberry, common raspberry, common bearberry, warty birch, three-leaf watch, coltsfoot.
Flowers: sandy immortelle (tsmin), heather, storekeeper, oregano, calendula, centaury, two-leafed love, mullein, mint, chamomile inflorescences, heart motherwort (deaf nettle), calendula officinalis (marigolds), heart-shaped linden, common tansy, red hawthorn, blue cornflower, Spanish lichen, coltsfoot, brown rosehip.
Fruits: blueberries, common viburnum, common raspberries, black currants, common cumin, red hawthorn, juniper, bird cherry, blueberries, brown rose hips.
Bark: common viburnum.
Roots: large burdock, evading peony, common horseradish, medicinal dandelion, medicinal comfrey, male fern, orchis.
Buds: Siberian fir, forest pine, warty birch.
Needles: Siberian fir, forest pine.
Collection poisonous plants(treats attentively and only with knowledge of the matter) - Common sheep (moss moss), black henbane (dark, black), Field calf (sow thistle and thistle).

Nature takes care of us and gives us real treasures - healing plants. When collecting medicinal herbs, do not forget to treat nature carefully and carefully. Do not litter, do not break trees and shrubs, cut grass and plants carefully so as not to damage the main trunk or root of the tree.
Plants should be collected either in the morning from 8 to 9 in the morning, or in the late afternoon from 16 to 17 hours. It is desirable that the weather be dry and sunny. Under such conditions, you can prepare plants that have the maximum amount of valuable substances.

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August, like other summer months of the year, is rich in medicinal plants, which are collected by herbalists. Each month offers for collection certain types of plants, as well as certain parts of plants, depending on their maturation. It is necessary to observe the deadlines set by nature in order to take only the gifts of the earth that are truly useful for a person, and also not to harm nature in vain, because a plant that will be plucked at the wrong time and which will not be able to help a person will die just like that.
Grass: Highlander pepper (water pepper), nettle, tansy, plantain, cudweed, barberry, lingonberry, Ivan tea, meadowsweet, horsetail, heather, field loach, St. John's wort, clover, snapdragon, chamomile, celandine, oregano, cumin, meadow calamus, marsh calamus, marsh wild rosemary, highlander, medicinal sweet clover, small centaury, medicinal dandelion, garden parsley, wormwood, common yarrow, shepherd's purse.
Flowers: blue cornflower, tansy inflorescences, flat-leaved eryngium, sandy immortelle, red hawthorn, coltsfoot, fragrant chamomile.
Leaves: black currant, bearberry, barberry, henbane, lingonberry.
Fruits: blackcurrant, unripe anise fruits, red hawthorn, blueberries, marigold officinalis (marigolds), common viburnum, common raspberry, mountain ash, horse chestnut, hops.
Buds: Forest Pine
Bark: Viburnum vulgaris
Roots: Blue cyanosis, meadow calico, calamus marsh, valerian officinalis, angelica officinalis, officinalis dandelion, male fern, garden parsley, evasive peony, burdock, bergenia, elderberry, nine strength, burnet, yellow capsule, erect cinquefoil, soapwort, primrose, chicory , horse sorrel.
Needles: Forest pine

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Many summer residents collect and dry medicinal herbs. Someone likes to drink fragrant and healthy in winter, someone uses medicinal plants for hair and skin care, someone has proven recipes for herbal preparations for various ailments. Regardless of the purpose, it is important to properly collect and dry plant materials, and now is the time to remember how to do this.

Herb collection time

Each medicinal plant has its own harvesting time. It is at this time that it maximally accumulates useful substances, which determine its healing effect. Brief plate-calendar will help you navigate the timing of the collection of plant materials (calendar for the Middle Strip; for other geographical areas, of course, amendments are needed to take into account the climate). To enlarge the image, just click on the picture:

Herbal collection calendar (for central Russia)

If the plate was not at hand or there is no plant of interest to us in it, we focus on general rules- depending on the type of medicinal raw materials.

kidneys

If the raw materials are plant buds, they need to be collected in early spring (in some plants - starting from February). You should have time, “catch the moment”, when the buds are already swollen, but the leaves have not yet begun to bloom. Expanding buds no longer have value as medicinal raw materials.

Bark

The bark of trees and shrubs is also harvested in the spring - when does sap flow start. The period of its harvesting ends when the first leaves unfold. If the time of collection is chosen correctly, the bark is easily separated from the branch.

Leaves

Most often, the harvesting of leaves is carried out at a time when when the plant is budding or flowering. Less often - in the fruiting phase. In plants with wintering foliage (lingonberry, bearberry), autumn harvesting of raw materials is also possible - after the berries have ripened.


Collection time depends on the type of medicinal raw materials

Flowers and inflorescences

If the flowers of the plant are required for medicinal purposes, you should wait until when they are fully developed. Sometimes buds are also used, but raw materials should never be harvested from withering and fading plants.

Herbs

The above-ground part of herbaceous perennials and annuals is collected during their flowering or bud formation.

Seeds and fruits

In most cases, it is recommended to wait, when the fruits and seeds are fully ripe. However, there are exceptions. For example, ripe rose hips become soft and crumple when harvested - they are harvested slightly unripe. Kalina, mountain ash, sea buckthorn are good to collect after the first frost.

Seeds and fruits are usually harvested when they are fully ripe.

If the seeds of the plant, ripening, easily crumble, scatter, apply little trick: on a branch where valuable raw materials ripen, they put on a small linen bag and tie it so that it does not blow away with the wind. Ripe seeds will gather themselves.

Roots, rhizomes, tubers and bulbs

They are usually dug in early spring, at the time of awakening of plants; in some plants autumn- when the maximum amount of useful substances accumulates in the underground organs. During the autumn harvest, they usually wait until the aerial part begins to die off (but until it completely dies off, so as not to be mistaken in the definition of the plant).

So that medicinal plants are always at hand, you can grow them yourself. And choose seeds for your apothecary's garden conveniently in our catalog, which contains the offers of large garden online stores. .

Experienced summer residents almost never think about when to collect healing herbs, and for beginners, even this is a curiosity. After all, almost all plants are medicinal, and leaders stand out among them. They collect medicinal herbs away from roads and large industries, such as factories or factories. Experienced Assemblers useful herbs they know exactly which plants to collect in a certain season. Let's take a look at this issue as well.

The best time to collect medicinal herbs

Spring is the time when you can not only walk in the forest and breathe the air, but also collect medicinal plants. Under no circumstances should this period be missed.

What medicinal herbs are harvested in May

So, what gives us the forest in spring.

• Nettle. There is no more useful herbal remedy than nettle. The list of diseases for which it can be used as a medicine is impressive. In addition, many people add it to borscht and use it to wash their hair.
  
• Periwinkle. Even Hollywood stars are washed with an infusion of periwinkle leaves. Celebrities are always in sight, so they have to wear makeup. The skin gets tired of it, and the periwinkle returns her youth and freshness.
  
• Violet. This is a real natural antibiotic, absolutely harmless to humans. Field violet (fragrant) has an expectorant, anti-inflammatory and disinfectant effect. Those who protect their throats are advised to drink violet tea.
  
• Chistyak spring. The plant has been used since time immemorial to eliminate inflammatory processes in organs. respiratory system. It is important to have time to stock up on a chistyak before the end of flowering, because then it becomes poisonous.
  
• Dandelion. An invaluable source of replenishment of calcium, as well as inulin. In the spring, the leaves and inflorescences are harvested and used (as well as dried, pickled and squeezed). Dandelion roots are harvested in autumn.
  

The source of health is not only the forest, but also the garden. It also contains valuable specimens that, if necessary, will support the tone of the body. Flowers fruit trees(apple, pear, peach, apricot, etc.) are also medicinal raw materials. Tea, brewed from flowering twigs, perfectly tones, quickly restores strength after work.

Willow is rich in salicylic acid. You need to cut the branches with young leaves and flowers, dry them in the shade, and then you can make tea from them. Such a drink relieves fever, knocks down high temperature and relieves headaches.

The leaves and roots of burdock are considered medicinal. They wash their hair with infusion from the root, and add young leaves to salads.

The lower dried leaves of bergenia are valued as a powerful antimicrobial agent. In the spring, overwintered dark leaves are cut off and dried in the shade.

In folk medicine, pine and larch are used. In the spring, you need to collect young pine buds, because this is the best antitussive. And in larch for these purposes, not only buds are plucked, but also young shoots.
Summer collection

What is useful in the summer for a home first aid kit? At this time of the year, there are many herbs and flowers that need to be collected in time. Mint, lemon balm, echinacea, chamomile, lavender, rose - all of these plants adorn the garden, and they can also be used as a sedative.

Rose petals saturate the body with iodine, rejuvenate cells and improve digestion. Tea from the buds of these flowers is rich in iron and zinc, it strengthens nails and hair, increases hemoglobin, and expands the walls of blood vessels.

Lavender can be added to olive and coconut oil. Thanks to this component, the oil acquires an incredible aroma and becomes effective tool for the prevention of dandruff. In addition, it is laid out next to bags of dried fruits to protect against food moths.

Helpful Hints for the preparation of medicinal herbs

• Plants should be harvested when they are in full bloom. Unripe or overripe herbs are ineffective.
• It is desirable to dry in shady places, spreading out in one layer on a canvas or parchment.
• Well-dried grass turns to dust when rubbed with fingers. It's a sign good quality.
• Raw materials should be stored in a dry place. If you put herbal blanks in a damp place, they will begin to rot and acquire a musty smell.
• Plants should not be saved tin cans and plastic bags. Best Option- jars of dark glass.
• so natural essential oils disappear, the shelf life of any herbs is 1 year, up to a maximum of 2 years.

It is better to harvest and store herbs separately, and when preparing (for example, a tonic herbal collection), mix them, pour boiling water over them, leave for about 4 hours.

In the garden, you can really get a lot of useful herbs - study their properties and plant them in different corners. Plant diversity improves not only our health, but also ecological niche site. And over time, you yourself will decide when to collect medicinal herbs.

So summer has come, and hence the time to collect most of the medicinal plants. Do not forget about this, indulging in the joys of a summer holiday, because harvesting medicinal raw materials is no less important than growing tomatoes and cucumbers in the beds.

“Why prepare medicinal herbs yourself when you can buy them at a pharmacy?” - you ask. Asking such a question is the same as asking a summer resident why he devotes so much effort to growing the same carrot, because you can buy it for a penny at a market or in a store. The point here is in the special energy emanating from the harvest harvested by one's own hands. So are the plants collected with love and good mood will bring the greatest benefit to your health. It is even believed that some medicinal herbs for their own healing should be torn by the patient himself, only then they will have the desired effect.

But, going to search and harvest plants, remember that you are going to the temple of Nature, to its Green Pharmacy, in order to improve your health or the health of a person close to you. And for this you need to know exactly what herbs you need. You should not cut the plant "just in case" or "maybe come in handy" - this is a bad omen. Collect only what you need.

Medicinal plants will bring you real benefits if they are collected on time and in good location dry properly and store.

To do this, firstly, you need to collect only those medicinal plants that grow on clean, fertile soil away from landfills, industrial enterprises, roads and railways and, preferably, 30 kilometers from big city. Yes, and it is better to avoid the neighborhood with collective farm fields - alas, it is now customary to treat the crop with chemicals. It is necessary to comply with this rule because plants intensively accumulate toxic substances present in the soil, atmosphere or water.

Secondly, different parts of plants need to be collected at “their” time. The aerial part of plants (flowers, leaves, grass) - at the beginning of flowering plants, fruits and berries - as they ripen, roots - usually in autumn, and bark from trees and shrubs - in spring, during the period of increased movement of juice.

Many plants have similar but toxic "twins" so it's important to only pick herbs that you know exactly how to say in the "face".

You should not go to collect herbs in rain or fog - it must be clear and dry outside.

If we talk about the time of day, then medicinal plants are best collected from 8 to 9 am or in the late afternoon, from 16 to 17 hours. Sometimes it is useful to collect plants at night, on a full moon, when the largest number medicinal substances are found in the above-ground parts of plants (flowers, leaves, grass) or on a new moon, when, on the contrary, all the healing power of the plant is concentrated in the underground parts (in roots, tubers, rhizomes). This is explained by the fact that during the period of the full moon, grasses absorb more moisture, which, moving to the top of the plant, carries with it useful substances. And on the new moon, moisture consumption decreases, and all useful substances rush to the roots.

Some medicinal plants, for example, lily of the valley, bitter wormwood, contain toxic substances, therefore, when collecting them, safety precautions must be observed - in no case should you touch your eyes with your hands, and at the end of the collection you should carefully shake off your clothes and wash your hands with soap and water.

Also, do not put the collected herbs in plastic bags. In them, plucked plants quickly suffocate, but in a birch bark box or a wicker basket they feel great.

We dry correctly

Correctly collecting medicinal plants is not all. Subsequent drying is no less important, because drying medicinal plants is not as easy as it might seem at first glance, for example, drying in a damp or poorly ventilated area, as well as late or premature harvesting of plants, can spoil the medicinal raw materials and turn out to be only in vain waste of time, effort and labour. Therefore, we dwell on a few basic points of proper drying.

First, it should be noted that there are several ways to dry medicinal plants: in the shade, in the sun and with artificial heating.

Drying in the shade is essential for herbs, leaves and flowers. With this method, plants are dried in the open air, under a canopy, so that ultraviolet rays do not destroy beneficial substances. Raw materials can also be dried on gauze hammocks, hanging them in the attic.

Drying in the sun is used for roots and rhizomes containing tannins and alkaloids, as well as for juicy fruits.

Drying with artificial heating is optimal for all types of plant materials, but at different temperatures for each type. For this drying method, Russian stoves or ovens are used. Herbs, leaves, flowers, roots and rhizomes are dried at a temperature of 50-60 0 C, fruits, berries and seeds - at 70-90 0 C, but herbs and fruits rich in essential oils, for example, St. John's wort, peppermint, thyme are dried slowly, at a temperature not exceeding 30 0 C, spreading out in a thick layer or tying into bundles.

The collection of medicinal herbs is a mixture of raw materials, which is either in whole or in crushed form.
Additional fees may be added medicines, but a phytopreparation is used for the purpose of making infusions, decoctions or tinctures.

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Collection of medicinal plants

There are a number of rules that are followed to obtain the correct collection:

• Before you start collecting a particular herb, you need to study the specifics of this plant;
• Those departments that relate to the aerial parts of plants should be collected only in dry weather in the sun, when water has evaporated;
• When collecting, you must adhere to the calendar dates for each specific plant;
• Plants that were collected in damp and cloudy weather, especially immediately after rain, are not suitable for collection, they have a short shelf life and quickly deteriorate;
• You can collect completely healthy plants without the slightest sign of rot or wilting, flowers and leaves should be fully bloomed;
• Before the collection process, it is necessary to carefully study the structure of the desired plant and distinguish it from others that may have a similar appearance, but have a harmful effect on the body;
• At a certain time of the day, the plant contains the maximum content of all useful substances, and this must be taken into account when compiling the collection;
• It is important to find out which part of the plant is needed for a particular collection, different sections of the plant have different composition useful substances - various vitamins;
• Different parts of the same plant should not come into contact with each other after they are collected, ideally they should be collected in different containers, and it is better not to fold them too tightly or crush the contents of the container;
• Plants in their natural environment habitats will contain many more valuable substances than those that were artificially grown in greenhouses or in pots;
• It is necessary to collect plants as far as possible from large highways, cities and industrial enterprises, they accumulate many harmful substances that absorb from the air and soil;
• If the collection is carried out annually, then it must be carried out in different places so as not to make the complete destruction of medicinal plants in a particular area;
• Store herbs from medicinal collections in cool, dark rooms with good ventilation.

Each specific part of the plant must be harvested at the right time to achieve the best concentration of nutrients.

Proper harvesting of grass and bark

The bark is taken from plants more often in the spring, when there is a massive movement of juice, and young plants with tender bark are better suited for this purpose.

During this period, it contains many useful substances, and also, it is much easier to separate it from the stem of the plant. The area of ​​bark chosen for collection should be clean and without any growths.

The grass is usually harvested in the very early flowering period. It is better to cut it off near the ground with a sharp knife or sickle. If the plant has a rigid stem, then side shoots are taken. If the grass is in dense thickets, then it is better to mow them entirely, and then select the necessary plants.

Preparation of leaves and flowers

Leaves are best harvested by hand before flowering. Leaves can be plucked with or without a cutting.

In a number of plants, such as coltsfoot, large leaves carry a large concentration of beneficial ingredients immediately after flowering.

Only completely healthy leaves without any signs of rot and withering are suitable for collection. Flowers are always harvested in their full bloom, and only in dry weather.

Flowers for collection should be fresh, without the slightest wilting. They are usually harvested only by hand, and only the flowers are picked without a pedicel.

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Roots, berries and buds

All parts of the plant that are underground are collected, when the plant enters the dormant stage, during this time period, all the valuable substances necessary for the manufacture of the medicinal collection are localized in the roots. These parts of the plants should be well shaken off the ground and washed with water.

The buds are collected in the spring, before the moment when they bloom. It is better to dry the buds in a cool place without the sun to prevent their early blooming.

Fruits are harvested only when they are fully ripe. It is better to collect in the morning or evening hours, during the day in hot weather they can quickly deteriorate. The fruit should be without the slightest dents or cracks.

Calendar by month to collect

Each plant has its own time for harvesting. The collection calendar for medicinal plants focuses on the time when you need to collect the most common components.

• birch buds;
• Pine buds.

• Oak bark;
• willow bark;
• Ginseng root.

• Dandelion herb;
• Plantain herb.

• Hypericum herb;
• Leaves and flowers coltsfoot;
• Plantain herb;
• Herb motherwort;
• Sage leaves.

• Hypericum herb;
• calendula flowers;
• Leaves and flowers coltsfoot;
• Dandelion herb;
• Plantain herb;
• Herb motherwort;
• Chamomile inflorescences;
• Sage leaves.

• Valerian roots;
• calendula flowers;
• Leaves and flowers coltsfoot;
• Dandelion herb;
• Herb motherwort;
• Chamomile inflorescences;

September:

• Valerian roots;
• calendula flowers;
• Dandelion roots.

• Valerian roots;
• Dandelion roots.

Types of useful herbs and their uses

There are many types of fees that differ in their constituent components, in their effect and in the range of diseases in which they are applied.

For example, there is a chest collection used for diseases of the respiratory system and a gastric collection used for diseases of the digestive system.

Collections, consisting of medicinal herbs, contain many biologically active substances, which, simultaneously with the treatment of a specific disease, can saturate the body with many compounds necessary for normal life.