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The simple bean herb (Satureja hortensis) is closely related a plant from the family of the lip bloom plants (Lamiaceae) and to the mountain bean herb.

Description

It is a one year's plant, with unusual-proves up to thirty the centimeters of high handles in the lower portions fells trees (otherwise actually form wood only durable plants, trees and bushes). The sheets of the plant are narrowly, oblong, dark-green, easily behaart and possess oil glands. The blooms, which appear from July to Octobers, are small and white and/or pale-pink or lilac-colored.

Location

It needs loose, humosen soil. The, is the spicier it receives more sun the plant. On the patch beans and bean herb form a good plant community, because sheet lice avoid the proximity of the plant.

Contents materials

Ethereal oil (Carvacrol, Cymol, phenol, phenol ether) and Gerbstoffe.Der Vitamin C-content of the fresh plant per 100 g freshness weight 216.7 mg amount to.

Use in the kitchen

If one wants to dry the bean herb, then the best harvest time is short before the bloom. The collected herbs are hung up bundled at the and stripped after drying the lamellas.

The bean herb fits beans and other leguminous plants, potato soups, a pots and fat meat. The flavour of the plant is most intensive during the bloom. It is important to give the bean herb only briefly before that refining to the court since otherwise the taste of the bean herb penetrates too intensively. For harvesting the impulses about 10 cm over the soil are cut off, since then the plant regenerates and itself better branched.

Use in the Pflanzenheilkunde

Bean herb works welfare-ends with stomach detunings and cramps. As spice to leguminous plants bean herb prevents unpleasant blowing. Due to the Gerbstoffgehalts bean herb helps also with failure. In addition one two of sheets with litre water and lets to the dte ten minutes pull.

Freshly crushed sheets of the bean herb are a long-proven house means against bee and wasp passes.

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