Popular names: Kaporsky tea, fireweed, creaker.
IVAN-TEA Narrow-leaved [Chamaenerion angustifolium (L.) Moench.]Perennial herbaceous plant of the fireweed family (Onagraceae), up to 2 m high. The rhizome is thick, creeping, up to 1 m long, with numerous shoots. Stem erect, simple or slightly branched, glabrous, glabrous. The leaves are alternate, sessile or on very short petioles, linear-lanceolate, pointed at the apex, with sharply prominent veins. The inflorescence is a rare conical raceme, reaching 40 cm in length. The calyx is reddish, almost dissected to the base. The flowers are large, purple-pink, turning blue when dried, wide open. The fruit is a pod-like fluffy box, up to 8 cm long. Seeds are very small, numerous, with a tuft of long hairs. One plant produces up to 20,000 seeds during the growing season. Blossoms from mid-June to mid-August, fruits ripen in August – September. Propagated by seeds and rhizomes. Distributed almost throughout the CIS. It grows on fresh sandy and loamy soils in clearings, clearings in coniferous and mixed forests, near ditches, on drained peat bogs, along railway embankments. instead of Chinese tea.
COLLECTION AND DRYING OF RAW MATERIALS
For medicinal purposes, grass, leaves, flowers of the plant are used, which are harvested during flowering. Dry under awnings, in attics, in well-ventilated areas, laying out a thin layer and stirring occasionally. The shelf life of the herb is 2 years. The roots are harvested in the fall. Cleaned from the earth, dried in dryers, ovens, ovens at a temperature of 65-70°C. The shelf life of the roots is 3 years.
PHARMACOLOGICAL PROPERTIES
The plant has a calming (in terms of tranquilizing properties only slightly inferior to valerian officinalis), anti-inflammatory, enveloping, astringent, emollient, diaphoretic action.
APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE
Rhizomes. In Tibetan medicine – for syphilis and gonorrhea. In folk medicine – for constipation, leucorrhoea, headache, as well as astringent, emollient, enveloping and wound healing; decoction (in the form of rinses) – with tonsillitis; inside – with gastritis, colitis, bleeding, anemia, acute respiratory diseases. The aerial part. In Tibetan medicine – sleeping pills, headaches, smallpox, scrofula, also as an antipyretic. In Mongolian medicine – for gastric ulcer, anti-inflammatory for gastritis and colic. In folk medicine, decoction and infusion – anti-inflammatory, astringent, emollient, diaphoretic, sedative, anticonvulsant, hemostatic; with gastrointestinal diseases, gastritis, colitis, stomach and intestinal ulcers, metabolic disorders, anemia, headache, scrofula, insomnia, scurvy, gonorrhea, syphilis and menorrhagia, as well as a cardiac stimulant. Outwardly – for washing wounds, ulcers; poultices – as an analgesic for otitis, bruises, arthralgia; powder – for the treatment of infected wounds. Leaves, flowers. In Mongolian medicine – for diarrhea, dysentery, catarrhal conditions of the stomach and intestines; in the collection – in case of poisoning, as an antiemetic. In folk medicine, infusion, decoction, juice – analgesic, enveloping, wound healing; with constipation, whites, C-avitaminosis, gastric ulcer, gastritis; used in dentistry. Fresh, dried (powder) – wound healing, with frostbite; poultices – painkiller. powder – for the treatment of infected wounds. Leaves, flowers. In Mongolian medicine – for diarrhea, dysentery, catarrhal conditions of the stomach and intestines; in the collection – in case of poisoning, as an antiemetic. In folk medicine, infusion, decoction, juice – analgesic, enveloping, wound healing; with constipation, whites, C-avitaminosis, gastric ulcer, gastritis; used in dentistry. Fresh, dried (powder) – wound healing, with frostbite; poultices – painkiller. powder – for the treatment of infected wounds. Leaves, flowers. In Mongolian medicine – for diarrhea, dysentery, catarrhal conditions of the stomach and intestines; in the collection – in case of poisoning, as an antiemetic. In folk medicine, infusion, decoction, juice – analgesic, enveloping, wound healing; with constipation, whites, C-avitaminosis, gastric ulcer, gastritis; used in dentistry. Fresh, dried (powder) – wound healing, with frostbite; poultices – painkiller. used in dentistry. Fresh, dried (powder) – wound healing, with frostbite; poultices – painkiller. used in dentistry. Fresh, dried (powder) – wound healing, with frostbite; poultices – painkiller.
DOSAGE FORMS, METHOD OF APPLICATION AND DOSES
♦ Infusion of Ivan-tea herb: 20 g of raw materials are poured into 200 ml of boiling water, infused for 2 hours, then filtered. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times every day before meals. ♦ Decoction of willow-herb: 15 g of raw material is poured into 200 ml of hot boiled water, boiled for 15 minutes, insisted for 1-1.5 hours, then filtered. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times every day before meals. ♦ The juice of willow-tea is squeezed from young fresh leaves with the tops of the stems. Take 1 / 2-1 tablespoon with an equal amount of honey 4 times every day before meals. ♦ Decoction of willow-tea rhizomes: 10 g of raw material is poured into 250 ml of hot boiled water, boiled for 20 minutes, then filtered. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times every day.
APPLICATIONS IN OTHER FIELDS
The rhizomes are sweet in taste and can be used as food (raw or boiled), suitable for baking bread. Flour when fermented gives an alcoholic drink. Soup is cooked from root offspring or eaten with butter (instead of cabbage). Used as a tanning agent. The fiber of the stems is used for making ropes and burlap. You can also get fiber from hairs with seeds. Leaves, flowers are used as a salad and seasoning for meat dishes and broths. The surrogate for tea is “kaporsky tea”. The fatty oil from the seeds can also be used as food. Pillows and featherbeds are stuffed with downy seeds. An excellent honey plant, from 1 hectare of fireweed land the honey yield reaches 500-600 kg or more (up to 1 ton). The average amount of nectar released by one flower per season, in favorable weather, is 12-15 mg, and individual flowers give up to 25 mg. Nectar contains up to 50% sugar. Honey, obtained from willow-herb nectar, colorless and transparent. Bees produce glue (propolis) from pollen shells. It is a good fodder for livestock, eaten fresh and ensiled (loses leaves in hay). Decorative. Suitable for fixing soil, ravines, railway and highway embankments.
TASTY TIPS
Ivan-tea salad.
Dip young shoots and leaves of willow-tea (50-100 g) in boiling water for 1-2 minutes, put in a colander to drain the water, and chop. Mix with chopped green onions (50 g) and grated horseradish (2 tablespoons), add the juice of 1/4 lemon and season with sour cream (20 g). Salt, pepper – to taste.
Salad from the rhizomes of willow-tea.
1. Wash the rhizomes, peel, finely chop or chop on a grater. To the resulting mass (100 g) add garlic (3 g), grated Dutch cheese (30 g) and carrots (30 g). Season with mayonnaise (30 g) .2. Wash the rhizomes and boil in salted water. Cut into strips (100 g), mix with chopped carrots (20 g), beets (20 g), add green peas (20 g), garlic (3 g), mayonnaise (30 g).
Shchi is green.
Dip young shoots and leaves of willow-tea (100 g), as well as nettle leaves (100 g) for 1-2 minutes in boiling water, put on a sieve to make water glass, chop and stew with margarine (20 g). In boiling broth or water (500-700 ml), put chopped potatoes (200 g), carrots (10 g), and then prepared Ivan-tea and nettles and cook until tender. 10 minutes before the end of cooking, add salt and spices. When serving, put slices of hard-boiled eggs and sour cream (20 g) in plates.
Soup with willow-herb rhizomes.
In meat broth (400 ml), add potatoes (40 g), carrots (15 g), onions (10 g), finely chopped and sautéed young rhizomes of willow-tea (50 g) and cook until tender. Before the end of cooking, season with fresh cabbage (30 g) and cook under the lid for 4-5 minutes. Salt – to taste. Serve with sour cream (20 g).
Soup dressing with Ivan-tea greens.
Well-washed fresh greens of Ivan-tea, sorrel and lungwort finely chop, rub with salt (5-10% of the total mass of greens) and put in a glass jar. Keep refrigerated.
Cakes from the rhizomes of Ivan-tea.
Mix flour (3 tablespoons) from dried rhizomes with wheat flour (2 tablespoons), add a pinch of baking soda, salt (to taste), vegetable oil (2 tablespoons), egg, kefir (1/2 cup). Beat until pasty consistency. Bake cakes in a hot pan. Serve with kefir or curdled milk.
Roasted willow-tea rhizomes.
Rinse young rhizomes (200 g) thoroughly with cold water, cut into pieces 2-3 cm long, breaded in breadcrumbs (20 g) and bake in the oven or fry in ghee or sunflower oil (50 g).
Ivan-tea porridge.
Grind dried rhizomes into cereals (200 g), pour into boiling milk, salt, add sugar and cook until tender.
Ivan-tea flour.
Grind dried rhizomes in a coffee grinder. Use in a mixture with grain flour for baking bread, pancakes, pancakes.
Fritters.
Mix flour from Ivan-tea (100 g) and grain (200 g), add kefir or yogurt (500 ml), egg, sugar, salt, mix thoroughly. Fry pancakes in vegetable or ghee. Drizzle with sour cream or butter before serving.
Tea with Ivan tea.
Ivan-tea leaves, dried apples, wild rose, rowan, carrots, cudweed mix in equal amounts. Brew the mixture like tea.
Kaporsky tea from Ivan-tea.
Dry willow-tea young leaves (200 g) in the air, twist into tubes, put in enameled cast iron or clay pots, slightly moisten with water or milk (100 ml), add large pieces of carrots (150 g) (you can add oregano and peppermint 5 g each), soak in a warm oven or oven for several hours. Then remove the carrots, dry the leaves of Ivan-tea in a warm oven, cut into strips. Use to brew tea.