Recommendation of the month of February: the chickweed
also the middle of winter you can harvest this delicious herb and refine it salads or other dishes. Mainly eaten fresh, preserved their precious ingredients, such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B1, B2 and B3, vitamin C, selenium, silica, saponins and flavonoids. It is full of healthy vitamin and mineral power, we can do in this cold weather very well. Chickweed (Stellaria media) is one of the Pink family and has small and delicate flowers with white petals and slotted ovate, pointed, fleshy leaves, which sit on opposite sides on the stalk. In other words Bischhausen Huhnsgeschlicker this plant, suggesting also that birds and they like to eat chicken. Sebastian Kneipp, the chicken intestine praised very much and used the tea for lung ailments and externally for wounds, ulcers and rashes.
My tip: Daily 2-3 weeks for 5 stalks fresh chickweed with flowers and leaves chopped sprinkle over the food. Bon appetit!
And as always, you collect only the plants that you can determine with certainty. Your
Karen Detloff
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