PEPPERS

I can’t imagine my garden without peppers. Sometimes I plant them in planters on the terrace. Those who grow peppers in greenhouses can harvest them through all year.

I usually grow little green and yellow peppers, because they are more strong and healthy.

Peppers contain a lot of natural active substances, like:

*vitamin C & A,

*niacin,

*carotenoids,

*capsaicin.

 

With 150 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 grams, peppers are one of the most important suppliers of vitamin C.

As we know vitamin C is necessary for strengthening of the immune system and circulatory system.

But remember: vitamin C is very sensitive to light and heat, so that’s why you shouldn’t cook or store it for too long, because with that peppers loose most of the vitamin C.

Peppers contain vitamin A, which is important for health of mucous membranes in the body, it acts as an antibiotic and protects tiny vessels from bacteria and cancer.

Red and yellow peppers, contains a lot of carotenoids.

The peppers substance is called Capsaicin, which prevents blood clotting and blood circulation disorders of heart attacks and strokes.

The peppers prevent headaches and migraines, powdered peppers contain a lot of Capsaicin, even more of it you’ll find in peppers seeds. That’s why it’s not good to cut and clean peppers too precisely.

It is the best to buy peppers on the marketplace and store it in refrigerator up to four days.

The smallest peppers are less fertilized and laden with chemicals.

In kitchen peppers are a real treasure, because you can make a delicious and healthy tasty tomato salad, they are also good as stuffed peppers, which can make it as a main dish.

SPRING PRIMROSE - PRIMULA

Spring primrose is one of the first that cheers and invites me among their yellow flowers.

In the past there were much more primroses as today, because people didn't use fertilizers for meadow.

In my childhood we were gathering primroses and we put the primrose neck into our mouth and blow in it, which produced a trumpet like sounds. The bigger the primrose was the louder was the sound it produced.

Our grannies used to apply ointments and distilled water for cosmetic purposes.

When I’m taking a walk on the meadow I usually pick up a primrose and blow in it to hear a funny sound, after that I eat it because it contains a lot of nectar. Blossom petals are very soothing I eat it when I’m very tense and upset.

Primroses work very well against colds with fever and opening respiratory, it also cures headache.

I quickly dry primrose blossoms and when I need it I use it to make herbal preparation from it. I boil water and pour it over blossoms and then drink it sip by sip.

Primroses contain vitamin C, so it is recommended to eat it if we suffer from pneumonia or for cleaning blood, kidneys and bladder.

 

Very useful are its roots, which we usually excavate after blooming starts to end. Once people used it for treating arthritis. I personally use it for the treatment of pulmonary/lung disease, especially bronchitis. Primrose roots also contain many of irritant chemicals which encourage cough.

 

Sometimes I make myself a tincture from primrose blossoms and use it when I’m tired or I can’t sleep.

I use primrose ointment when I get sun burnt.

Primrose oil is very effective for massaging joints, relieving headache (especially migraines).

NOTE: this beautiful yellow flower can be also dangerous. People that are sensitive to Aspirin and those who take blood-thinning medicines should avoid preparations of primrose.