Wall is a delicious plant with graceful flowers. If you want a herb garden that is easy to maintain, choose a wall; This ground cover also looks nice. Chickweed is often seen as a weed, but it is actually a nice-looking and healthy plant. A well-known saying is that if birds eat something, people can eat it too. Chickweed is often eaten by chickens. Chickweed is a variant that is given to birds as green food. Chickweed can also be used as a vegetable by people. NB! This article is written from the personal view of the author and may contain information that is not scientifically substantiated and/or in line with the general view.

Contents:

• Medicinal use of wall
• Determine wall
• Nutritional wall
• Medicinal baths with wall
• Wall as a spring vegetable
• Eating tips wall

Medicinal use of wall

The root of chickweed is sold as a medicinal herb against fever and intestinal parasites. For medicinal purposes, 3 to 5 grams of dried root powder is recommended. You can make tea from this. Since ancient times, wall has been used in folk medicine. Tea was made from the whole plant. This tea was used to treat lung, bladder and kidney diseases. It is also prescribed for bronchitis. Wall tea stimulates the functioning of the kidneys because it has a diuretic (urinary) effect. The decoction of this plant is used against eye diseases by placing a cloth soaked in wall tea on the closed eyes. Wraps are said to help with rashes, open wounds and growths.

Determine wall

Chickweed is somewhat difficult to distinguish from other plants that resemble it. There are different types of wall, all of which are edible, but you have to be sure that it is really wall. Most chickweed species have 5 white petals. However, the petals are deeply incised, making each petal look like two petals, so that the flower apparently has 10 petals. The flower has a star shape and is therefore called stellaria in Latin.

Nutritional wall

Wall is full of nutrients. It is not only tasty but also healthy. It contains the following vitamins: vitamin A, many vitamins from the B complex and vitamin C. It also contains the minerals potassium, calcium, chromium, copper, magnesium, manganese, iron and zinc. In terms of phytonutrients, it is richly represented with gamma-linolenic acid (an omega6 fatty acid), coumarin, hydroxycoumarin, the flavonoid rutin and saponins. The latter are responsible for ensuring that all kinds of toxins can safely leave the body.

Medicinal baths with wall

A bath with wall is used by people with rheumatism, a disease of the joints. It also helps against a stiff neck and osteoarthritis. Bathing with herbs is not so bad after all. You don’t have to go to the store to put together an herbal bath mix. In the past, fresh herbs were picked every spring. The old herbs that had not been used up during the winter were used as bath herbs.The flower of chickpea is used as a natural barometer. When it opens, it will remain dry for the next few hours and if the flower remains half closed, it will rain. Source: SB Johnny, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA-3.0)

Wall as a spring vegetable

The wall plant is used in the kitchen as spring lettuce. You can pick a whole bunch of the plant and wash it well and pull it apart or cut it. Tearing salad vegetables is actually better than cutting them because they have a longer shelf life. This has to do with the fact that when you tear it, the tear edge ends up exactly at the boundaries of the cells. When you cut it, you cut through the cells, which means the edges can spoil more quickly and once vegetables spoil, this process continues.

Eating tips wall

Mix wall with olive oil, vinegar, salt and pepper and you have a delicious salad dressing. The same recipe supplemented with yogurt, mint, thyme, rosemary and basil, leads to a delicious yogurt dressing. You can use this dressing for many salad mixes. You can put the chickweed leaves on bread with tahini or peanut butter. You can also put it fresh in soup. You can make your own mixed herbal tea from wall.

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