Łódź, Stoki

Native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. Edible plant - seeds cooked; an essential oil from the leaves is used as a food flavouring in sweets and soft drinks; the leaves are added to vodka as a flavouring; Herbal plant - a tea made from the leaves is used in the treatment of fevers, coughs, sore throats, chafing and venereal infections, it is also used to stop vaginal bleeding and to expel afterbirth; the stems can be soaked in water and used to treat windburn and chapping and as an eyewash; smoke from the burning leaves has been inhaled in the treatment of colds. Useful plant - the dried leaves are used as an incense, they were formerly also used as a strewing herb and have been used as a stuffing in pillows and mattresses; they have also been used as an insect repellent in the clothes cupboard where they impart a nice smell to the clothes; the leaves can be soaked in water to make a tonic hair wash.