«Barbara» Organic Bittercress Seeds (Barbarea Vulgaris)

Barbarea vulgaris

The plant has taken a long time to be accepted as a Finnish plant: it was only discovered for the first time in the 1840s and began to spread in earnest at the end of the century. Its victory parade began when traditional grazing land was given over to the cultivation of hay and sowing seed was imported from abroad. Wintercress produces up to 10,000 seeds per plant, and they are very similar to hay and clover seed with regards to both size and weight so they spread well with them. In northern Finland the plant is still rare – so far.

As for the healing properties bittercress, here in one sentence does not stop there. It is advised to take with hypovitaminosis. Those who have survived a heart attack or stroke, winter cress used as a remedy for recovery. The juice and grass bittercress bittercress help get rid of paralysis and a "brain attack" - apoplexy.
 

Medicinal uses

If you have problems in sexual activity, for example, lack of sperm production, you need to squeeze the juice of the flowering herb bittercress and regularly receive. Also, low sexual activity can take bittercress - it will help. Recipe for cooking is fairly simple. A glass of boiled water should be taken twenty grams bittercress, brew it. After she insisted three hours - you can eat. One dose - forty milliliters, one can take up to four times a day. Within a month or two you will feel the effect.

Winter cress has a strong diuretic effect, in connection with which it is actively used for kidney and edema. This property helps with dropsy and prostate adenoma.

Of dried herb brewed tea bittercress. The drink takes the general weakness and restores strength. However, winter cress was used as a medicinal product is not in our time. In ancient Greek and Roman medicine bittercress knew as a diuretic and cholagogue. At the same time it was used for healing wounds, and as an aphrodisiac. We can say that winter cress useful to all, from the root and ending with the young pods, that is the seed.

Diseases that are "killing" winter cress, a lot, ranging from epilepsy and ending with scurvy, but still do not know what caused the presence of this kind of healing properties. Therefore, we can say that we do not know about all the miracles that can do bittercress components: the root bittercress, flowers, stems. However, we do not know about the contraindications that should cause concern. Those who constantly uses bittercress for medicinal purposes, does not recommend taking it with increased bleeding. However, this advice is national character.