#mjødurt

• Mjødurt •

Mjødurt, or meadowsweet, the vanilla of the north! It seems to be growing everywhere now, and it brings a lovely smell with it into the house.

Historically it has been used as a strewing herb, scattered over the floors of the house for its pleasant smell and mild antibacterial properties, as well as to add flavor to vinegar, wine, beer and mead…

It also has many medicinal traits. Supposedly, a Medieval advice to clear a stuffy nose was to hold a piece of wool dipped in meadowsweet juice toward your nostrils!

Interestingly, the organic compound “salicylic acid” was isolated from meadowsweet in the 1800s. This is a plant hormone that is part of the plants’ defense against pathogens, and derivatives of salicylic acid are used in anti-inflammatory drugs for headaches and fever today.

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