Official name: Sweet Woodruff 

Latin name: Galium odoratum, Asperula odorata L 

English name: Sweet Woodruff 

Other names: Sweet Woodruff, fragrant “lazarkinia:, Forest king 

Description: Sweet Woodruff is a perennial herbaceous plant from the Rubiaceae family with a creeping rhizome with numerous straight four-tubed simple stems, up to 40 cm high. The leaves are arranged in spines. The flowers are small white, collected in thyroid inflorescences at the top of the stem. The plant blooms in May and June with a pleasant aroma, and the seeds ripen in July and August. The fruit is dry and splits into two greenish-brown halves.  

Part of the herb used: The aerial part (stalks) (Herba Asperulae) and the leaves (Folia Asperulae) 

Collecting time: The herbs are collected before or at the beginning of flowering of the medicinal plant  

Content and properties: tannins, glucoside asperuloside, vitamin C, essential oil and coumarin 

Healing effect and application: Sweet Woodruff has a diuretic, diaphoretic, emollient and antitussive effect. The herb helps with diseases of the urinary tract, cystitis, with colic of various origins, insomnia, nausea, vertigo, conjunctivitis, skin rashes and wounds, biliary colic, with painful menstruation. Externally, it is used for difficult-to-heal wounds, for venous diseases such as varicose veins and hemorrhoids. It is used in cooking and for flavoring alcohols and tobacco products.  

• aerial part (stalks) (Herba Asperulae) - dried, crushed, cut to size at the customer's request, ground into powder/flour 

Possibilities to offer at the customer's request