The forest master (Galium odoratum, in former times also Asperula odorata) belongs to the redness plants (Rubiaceae), like the or the coffee plant. It is well-known also under the names May flower, member herb, member courses and

Characteristics

The forest master has a creeping, persistent root stick. It drives simple, four-sharp-edged, bebl¤tterte in Quirlen. The Quirle counts six, above eight lightgreen, lanzettliche sheets occupied at the edge with fine bristles. The blooms are located in a summit bunch on handles three times turned. They are snow-white, glockig star shaped. The fruits represent small klettenartige It flowers in May.

Spreading and habitat

Forest master grows in shady forests, preferably in herb-rich booking or leaves mixed woodlands. In the plant sociology the plant Fagetalia (order) is - a kind of character with center of mass in the forest master beech forest (Asperulo Fagetum).

The circulation area covers central, east and south Europe as well as North America.

In the garden it ranks among the so-called Waldstauden, which prosper under wood well. In a Staudenbeet therefore comparable conditions must be ordered to it.

Contents materials

In the herb Cumaringlycosid occurs, which particularly splits off with the withering sheet Cumarin. Cumarin causes the special forest master smell. In small quantities occur besides: the Glucosid (see and Gerbstoffe.

Use

Forest master is collected in May and in June. It is used particularly as spice for the Maibowle. Except to the Bowle the plant became in former times aromatizing of sweet foods, like e.g. God food, lemonades, ice, of beer (shot in citizen of Berlin white one) and used. Commercially refugees food may be colored only artificial and aromatized since a prohibition 1981 in Germany due to the toxicity in forest master the contained Cumarins.

In the the Essenz from fresh herb (D1-D2), collected before the bloom, is internally used with Metritis and Kolpitis. In the people medicine the forest master finds as Antispasmodicum, with liver suffering and jaundice use. (G/O)

Poisonings

To benefit of forest master it can come to headache. Cumarin, which occurs also in kinds of stone clover as well as in the Ruchgras (Anthoxantum odoratum), can with humans in higher doses swindles, sleep craze or central paralysis and respiratory arrest in coma cause. Such poisonings are not to be feared however with the benefit of cumarinhaltiger plants because of the small Cumaringehaltes and the small toxicity of the Cumarins.

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