Categories: Dagnija Bramane

Yes, also at my home my ancestors were walking the fields and looking for herbs, and also my grandmother told me a lot, that my grandmother’s mom also collected various herbs. Me too, reading a bit more in books and searching the internet, I experiment and collect different plants – those that can be found in the fields and I grow herbs myself. Nowadays, the traditional teas, which are known for everybody, are mint tea, lime tea, maybe some more, but there are a lot of teas that can be collected that nobody knows about, and which can be very well used in medicine. For example, the very yarrow tea, which is very good for stomach, and the wormseed tea, which is bitter and should be drunk when having problems with the stomach. And then, there is motherwort that is for heart and various mints, not only one peppermint, but there are many different kinds of mint. There is a river mint, the so-called cat-mint, and balsam mint. There are various soothing teas. You not only drink those, you can also use different parts of the plants for various bruises, wounds. The very yarrow heals up the wounds very well and the so-called balsam mint, which my grandmother calls German mint, most probably because it was brought from Germany long time ago, and that tea was found in any farmhouse. And then, there are those herbs that are grown at home – chamomile, marigolds, home mint, melissa. Now there are a lot of herbs brought from abroad, which are grown – the very marjoram or lavender, which are also used both to make tea and as scent plants and spices.

Researcher: Dr. philol. Valentīns Lukaševičs, Daugavpils Universitāte