Lovage cleans the blood and helps digestion

Drug lovage - plant helps with pain in the stomach, the cause of which is the violation of the digestive system, helps in violation of the activities of the urinary system, kidneys, as well as rheumatism, migraines, gout, menstrual irregularities in women.

Often, the people, lovage called bathing grass, mother or love-grass.
Grows lovage drug on the whole territory of Europe. Blossoms lovage in June or July, bears fruit in August. Lovage has a thick, brownish rhizome, long roots and direct hollow stem reaches up to 2 metres in height.
The leaves of любистока dark, green, rather large, broad. Flowers light yellow color, fruits short, brown-yellow color. This plant long-term.
In folk medicine, use the upper part of the lovage , as well as the roots of the plants.
At the first Assembly (the first year of the plant) to collect a lot of leaves should not be. Roots lovage you can Rob you from the second year from the beginning of the cultivation of plants. As lovage is exposed to parasites and moisture collected part of the plant is stored in tight containers. The fruits of lovage is worthwhile to collect in the end of autumn, the leaves, if they are used as a spice, it is possible to collect plants in the course of the year.
There is an opinion, that before flowering collect roots lovage should not be, because they don't have useful properties, and may even be toxic.
Most often the drug lovage used as a diuretic, less frequently as the cleansing blood or enzyme (to aid digestion) tool. The most popular use of lovage as tea mixes.