Useful properties of thyme
Thyme is a low evergreen shrub that can grow up to 20-30 cm and has a highly branched stem. Thyme leaves are sessile, small, pointed. This plant blooms in May. The beneficial properties of thyme have been known since ancient times.
Thyme is not demanding to grow. It is a heat-loving and light-loving plant. In the early phases, the plant grows very slowly. The seeds of thyme are small and + they begin to germinate after 1 + 0-15 days at a temperature of 10 degrees. Thyme grows best at a temperature of 20-28 degrees. Adult plants tolerate winter well.
Thyme shoots contain tannins and bitter substances, phytoncides, essential oil, mineral salts, resins, saponins, carotene and vitamins P and C. The plant has the aroma of mint and black pepper, as well as a bitter spicy aftertaste.
The beneficial properties of thyme are very healing. This plant is capable of providing disinfectant, bactericidal properties. Thyme has healing properties for pharyngitis, cough, whooping cough. It is capable of providing a diaphoretic, diuretic, and astringent. The plant will be effective for catarrh of the intestines and stomach, diarrhea, indigestion and vomiting.
Thyme is grown as a one- or three-year culture. It is located in well-lit areas. In the first year of cultivation, the thyme is harvested in August. Plants must be cut at a height of 10-12 cm from the very root.
This wonderful plant will be indispensable in a home medicine cabinet and will be an ideal substitute for medicines for colds. That is why it is recommended to store it every year and use it as intended.
Oh, how I love the smell of thyme, and especially tea with it. Since childhood, my mother loved to give us delicious teas with thyme, linden, and cherry twigs. Now I have hooked all my friends and girlfriends on such teas. :)
I really like the smell and taste of tea, if you add a little thyme to the tea leaves. But with regard to useful properties, it seems to me that they are possessed only by medicinal herbs collected far from roads and factories. There is no certainty that you can buy just such in pharmacies and from hands, but there is no way to collect it yourself.
Now, even in supermarkets, tea with thyme is sold, however, the taste of the drink obtained is not enough to compare with tea made from natural thyme, collected by hand. Although a city dweller does not have too many opportunities to drink such tea.