Bratoszewice, route to Kalinów

Edible plant - an essential oil in the leaves is used as a flavouring in spirits such as vermouth. Herbal plant - is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine; an aromatic anti-bacterial plant, recent research has shown that it destroys malarial parasites, lowers fevers and checks bleeding; it is often used in the Tropics as an affordable and effective anti-malarial; the leaves are antiperiodic, antiseptic, digestive, febrifuge; an infusion of the leaves is used internally to treat fevers, colds, diarrhoea; externally, the leaves are poulticed onto nose bleeds, boils and abscesses.