Linden - beauty for the site, health benefits

Linden - a tree that is widely used in many industries. If the garden or dacha plot allows for the size, then the linden will decorate any garden, giving a delicate aroma, relaxing shade and valuable flowers that will help cope with a large number of different diseases. Linden tea, honey, linden infusions are the healthiest drinks that you can easily prepare for yourself and your loved ones if you plant at least one tree on your personal plot.

Linden prefers a sunny place, although it will grow well in the shade; well-permeable, drained, but not necessarily fertile soil suits it; it tolerates frost and difficult winter weather conditions well. If you wish, the linden tree can be restrained with the help of a haircut, and it will keep the shape created by it for many years.

It is better to plant a linden seedling in the spring, keeping an eye on the tree and soil moisture at first; you can also periodically feed the linden tree at a young age. You can replant a tree at any time that is suitable and convenient for you, but while it is young, an already mature tree does not tolerate replanting well. Linden does not require special care; it perfectly extracts the moisture it needs from the soil thanks to its powerful roots, and pests do not attack it. However, in too dry periods, watering will not be superfluous.

When planting linden, take into account the fact that linden is the last to grow leaf mass in the spring and the earliest to shed it in the fall, and also has impressive growth and strong branching in adulthood.

How is linden useful and valuable?

Linden blossom – the oldest medicinal folk remedy, which is also used in traditional medicine as an antipyretic, diaphoretic, diuretic, expectorant and bactericidal drug.

• Linden blossom is brewed, infused, and added to teas for various purposes. To obtain a linden infusion, take two tablespoons of linden flowers and pour a cup of boiling water. For fever, inflammation of the bladder and liver, colds, stomach cramps, and neuroses, take no more than three glasses of this infusion orally per day.
• They also make a hot decoction of linden blossom, which helps with coughs, colds, neuralgia, rheumatism, gout and is also used for scented baths.
• An infusion of linden blossom will help with headaches, cramps and fainting.
• Linden bark, pre-boiled, will help with hemorrhoids and burns.
• Fresh linden leaves and buds in crushed form soften tissues for burns and help with mastitis and bruises.

Collection and storage of linden blossom

Linden flowers should be collected when most of the flowers have already bloomed, while others are still in the form of buds. You should not pick flowers when there is a lot of dew or after rain; you should not collect linden flowers from a linden tree that grows by the road. The flowers need to be collected in a box, then they are laid out on paper in a thin layer and placed in a dark, not damp, ventilated room.After drying, the flowers are poured into a wooden box or paper bag, and they can be stored for no more than thirty-six months.