Garden quinoa is an annual lettuce-spinach plant of the haze family. It has been known in culture since ancient times. It was grown in ancient Greece, Rome and Western Europe.

Garden quinoa and its types

The garden quinoa has several forms:

• With light yellow and green stems and leaves, it is grown as a salad crop.
• With red leaves and stems grown as an ornamental

The stem is erect, reaches 180 cm in height. The leaves in the rosette stage are triangular, oval in shape, the upper leaves are lanceolate, entire, the flowers are located on the central stem and lateral shoots, collected in paniculate inflorescences. The seed-fruit is located between two greenish-yellow bracts.

Quinoa salad

plant species

The lettuce quinoa is a cold-resistant, undemanding plant in terms of providing moisture and soil fertility. Grows on slightly saline soils, tolerates drought well. It is not grown under production conditions. It is cultivated by amateur gardeners.

The leaves of young plants are eaten in the rosette stage or at the beginning of the appearance of shoots. Okroshka, green cabbage soup are prepared from tender leaves. Porridge is prepared from young leaves boiled in milk.

How to plant a swan

Lettuce quinoa is grown by sowing seeds in the ground with row spacing of 45-70 cm and a distance between plants in a row of 88-10 cm. Seeds are sown in early spring or before winter. To prolong the supply of fresh leaves, repeated crops are carried out. Commercial ripeness occurs on the 28th - 40th day, when the plant reaches a height of 25 - 30 cm.

Landing quinoa

Please note: Store at a temperature of 2-6 degrees Celsius for 8-10 days. Transportability is good.

To obtain seeds, lettuce quinoa is sown at the same time and with the same row spacing. Seeds are buried in the soil to a depth of 2-3 cm. Seedlings appear on the 10th - 14th day. Plants left for seeds are thinned to 30 cm. Quinoa ripens in August-September. Seed plants are cut off at the end of the wax - the beginning of the full ripeness of the seeds. After a few days, the dried plants are threshed.

The use of quinoa in folk medicine and cooking

AT folk medicine herbal infusions are used as a diuretic, as well as for jaundice and colds. Fresh leaves, collected before flowering, are used as a medicinal salad for beriberi, lung diseases. As an external agent in cosmetic practice, an infusion of water from flowering plants for washing and lotions for skin itching, acne. Steamed grass in the form of poultices relieves pain from bruises, rheumatism, sciatica, and the infusion, taken orally, reduces sweating, helps with hemorrhoids, bronchitis, cough, neurasthenia. A decoction of seeds is used for diseases of the liver and spleen.

Young and fleshy quinoa leaves in soups, salads and botvinia have a number of advantages over nettle and sorrel. Nettle leaves are contraindicated in patients with atherosclerosis and in diseases accompanied by increased blood clotting, and sorrel should not be used for gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, with increased acidity.

How to use quinoa infusion: Pour 1 tablespoon with a glass of boiling water, insist in a thermos for an hour, strain. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day, one hour before meals

Video: Quinoa

Haze family

Origin of culture
The garden quinoa grows as a weed in the European part of Russia, in the Caucasus, in the south Western Siberia, in Central Asia.

Beneficial features
Young leaves and shoots contain a large number of mineral salts, vitamins C and PP. The presence of a large amount of protein makes this plant equal in satiety to animal products. Dry quinoa is added to flour, which increases the nutritional value of bread, which bakes better and lasts longer. The seeds are used to make porridge, which is similar in taste and nutritional value to buckwheat. Quinoa and cutlets are good. Young leaves are used as High Quality. Quinoa is suitable for salads, soups, mashed potatoes, for drying, pickling, pickling.

Biological features
Annual plant, strong, pyramidal, up to 2 m high, with wide heart-shaped leaves. Young stems and leaves are covered with a wax coating. The color of the stems and leaves is the most diverse: the leaves and stem are green, light yellow, red, the leaves are green with red borders, the stem is green, the ends of the leaves are pink.

Varieties
There are no domestic breeding varieties, so they use imported and local ones. Quinoa garden red is used for decorative purposes, the rest - for food.

Growing conditions
Quinoa garden can grow on slightly saline poor soils, however good harvest can only be obtained on soils rich in organic matter.

The quinoa successfully tolerates a short-term drought, but in general it is moisture-loving and, with a lack of soil moisture, forms lateral branches and flower-bearing stems. The leaves become small and hard.

The plant is cold hardy. Seeds are sown in the spring, as soon as the ground thaws. The distance between rows is 60 cm, between plants in a row is 5 cm, the seeding depth is 5 mm. Shoots are easily identified by purple cotyledons. They are thinned out, leaving the plants in a row at a distance of 25-30 cm from each other.

Garden quinoa can be sown at several times: the first time - in early spring, then every two weeks until the onset of hot weather. The last time it is sown in early August. The seeding rate is 1-1.5 g/m2.

To keep the greens tender and juicy, watering is carried out regularly. Effective top dressing with a solution of urea (5-10 g per 10 liters of water), which is given after thinning.

Economic suitability occurs 20-25 days after germination. Harvest or cutting off entirely young plants 30-40 cm high, or cutting off the lower leaves.

In all varieties of mari, seeds are sown in open ground without termination or with surface termination. At spring sowing in late April - early May shoots appear unfriendly, after 5-14 days. Plants often renew themselves by self-sowing.

At the end of June, buds appear on the main stem. In mid-July, plants enter the flowering phase, continue to develop, grow and bloom until the end of August - early September, when the fruiting phase begins. With the onset of a cold snap (in the conditions of the Moscow region in the first decade of October), the growing season ends. growing season on average lasts about 140 days.

How to get seeds
To get the seeds of the garden quinoa, the plants of the first sowing period are left until they ripen. Seeds are yellow-brown, weight of 1000 pieces is 4-6 g, they remain viable for 1-2 years.

Many of us have heard the name of the herbquinoa, but not everyone knows what kind of plant it is. Quinoa can be one or perennial shrub, semi-shrub or grass. The number of species of quinoa is more than 100. The height of the plant varies from 20 cm to 1.8 m, the shoots are thick or thin, depending on the species. Leaf plates are solid, elongated, arranged alternately. Grass can be red, yellow, green. The trunk and leaves are covered with villi silver color. Quinoa is a monoecious plant, i.e. female and male flowers placed on the same plant. Black seeds are located in bracts.

Did you know? Quinoa has edible species. The most popular type of garden quinoa in cooking.

In most cases, quinoa is a weed. The habitat is wastelands, ravines, fields, vegetable gardens, coasts. Grass is not only wild, but also cultivated as cultivated plant. Quinoa is distributed throughout the globe. Australia and the United States have the most plant species suitable for use in gastronomy. Dry quinoa grass is used in cooking as a seasoning or in gardening as a fertilizer saturated with nitrogen. Green leaves are used to make meatballs, soups, salads, pancakes.

Important! Young shoots and leaves contain protein, rutin, vitamins C and PP, and minerals.

Due to its saturation with beneficial substances, quinoa has found wide application in folk medicine.

Garden quinoa is an annual grass with an upright, faceted, branched trunk from 60 to 180 cm high. The leaves are different in shape, elongated, with whole or serrated edges, thin, sour taste. The color of the leaves is emerald or red-burgundy. The lower part of the leaf plate has a milky tint. Small flowers of green or red color form paniculate or spikelet inflorescences. Seeds are black or brown-olive. Flowering occurs in June - August. Come from garden quinoa from Central Europe. Garden quinoa is grown as a vegetable or ornamental plant. Like a weed, it is everywhere. Leaves and stems of grass that has not yet blossomed contain many useful and nutritious substances.

The wild quinoa is a one-year-old, from 3 to 70 centimeters high. The trunk of the quinoa can be either erect or creeping, branched from the base. Shoots are horizontal or directed upwards. Long branches are covered with a film plaque. The leaves are elongated or triangular, ovoid, with notches along the edges, covered with a ragged peeling film. The color of the leaves is gray-green, sometimes changing to red. Flowers form few-flowered balls, which are located in the leaf axils. Few-flowered balls form spike-paniculate inflorescences. What a wild quinoa looks like can be seen in the photo below.

Did you know? The salt absorbed by the plant from the soil accumulates in the leaf plates, so the grass can be used to clean the soil from excess salts.

The Tatar quinoa is a one-year-old, growing from 10 cm to one meter. The trunk of grass can be either upright or recumbent. The leaves are elongated, oval, narrow, with notches along the edges. Leaf tips are sharp sheet plate covered with fluff. What the Tatar quinoa looks like can be seen in the photo below. Flowering - June - October. Flowers form spikelets, the lower part of which is bordered by foliage. Seeds are round, brown, shiny. The plant is a weed, but it is used as food and fodder. Habitat habitats - steppe, vineyards, vegetable gardens.

Headed quinoa is an annual grass with a height of 20 to 60 cm. The stem of the plant is creeping, by the end of summer it changes its color from green to red. The leaves are triangular or oval, with or without notches along the edges. Flowering period - July - August. Small green flowers form small-flowered balls. The female flowers have no perianth.

Spear-shaped quinoa refers to annual plants. The grass reaches a height of 20-100 cm. The trunk is bare, branched. The leaves are horizontally spaced, monophonic from above and below, green or silvery-mealy color. The leaves are attached to the stem opposite each other. The shape of the leaf can be triangular-lanceolate, lanceolate with notches or lobes pointing upwards. The flowers are collected in small balls, which, in turn, form discontinuous spike-paniculate inflorescences. Seeds are vertical, ripen in September. Flowering period - June - August. Spear-shaped quinoa is used in cooking fresh, boiled, pickled, pickled.

Important! The seeds of some species of quinoa, eaten, can cause hallucinations.

Quinoa elongated is a plant that reaches a height of 20-110 cm. The leaves of the plant are green in color, narrow triangular-oblong, elliptical or oval in shape. Green flowers form small ball-shaped inflorescences. Flowering period - June - July.

The coastal quinoa grows up to 70 cm. The trunk is bare, erect, branched with shoots directed upwards. Leaves of green color, oval or linear-oval, narrowed towards the base. The tips of the leaves are sharp, the edges are even, rarely with notches. The flowers form elongated spikelets, which, in turn, form paniculate inflorescences. Flowering period - July - August. Seeds brown, bare, flattened. Coastal quinoa is eaten as a substitute for spinach. Where the coastal quinoa grows is easy to guess from the name. Habitat - sea sandy shores.

The sprawling quinoa has the following description. The height of the grass is 30-150 cm. The trunk is upright, faceted, branched. Quinoa - annual plant. root system rod. The lower row of leaves is unevenly rhombic or spear-shaped. The leaves, arranged alternately on the stems, are attached with the help of petioles, with even or serrated sides, elongated, green in color. Leaves of branches are oval, narrowed, looking up. Green flowers form spikelets. Flowering period - June - July. Seeds are small, flattened, black. Spreading quinoa is not only a fodder, but also a food plant.

Quinoa ... garden

About two years ago, in the catalog of the Antemis company from Tomsk, in the section seeds of summer flowers, I found a description of this plant, which is rarely bred in our country.

I read: "The whole plant is like a big flower! In spring and summer it is decorated with red-crimson leaves, and in autumn with luxurious clusters of seed plants. It was a huge success at the flower exhibition."

The same culture is proposed in the section vegetable plants as a decoration and component of salads, soups, borscht, a decoction of seeds is useful for gastric diseases.

In September 1998, from the famous Chelyabinsk gardener and collector of garden rarities, Valentina Borisovna Egorova from the Yantar garden, I received as a gift a whole handful of red quinoa seeds and late autumn scattered them into a furrow, 50 meters in length.

Bright red shoots of quinoa appeared early in spring. Its seeds begin to germinate at a temperature of only 2-4 degrees Celsius and tolerate sharp frosts down to minus 6.

When thinning seedlings, I used extra young plants as early salads and spinach, as well as for seasoning first courses, which the quinoa adorned very much. By autumn without special care the red quinoa reached the height of a man, the crimson bushes were covered with panicles of bright crimson seeds. It was simply impossible to pass by without admiring the living, burning fire of a bright bouquet.- everything in the catalog of the Tomsk company corresponded to reality.

In October, I collected fairly well-ripened seeds (you can store them for up to three years).

Cut stems, after scalding their ends with boiling water, remained in bouquets for a long time.

The red garden quinoa is also interesting for amateur vegetable growers, because it is from the haze family, that is, the closest relatives of beets and spinach.

Its leaves are rich in protein substances, ascorbic acid, rutin and other vitamins and are distinguished by a rich composition of mineral salts.

To obtain high quality delicate greenery (leaves and tops of shoots), fertile irrigated soils are needed. It is better to sow this crop at several times, starting in early spring, without waiting for the soil to ripen in the garden, on the beds prepared in the fall. I removed the leaves in the morning, pulled out the young plants with the roots, tore off the large lower leaves from the plants with peduncles and immediately used it. The leaves can be salted like cabbage, added to all pickles, put in borscht, where they replace beets, in green cabbage soup and okroshka, dried for tea, mashed, decorate with leaves and inflorescences ready meals. The ground seeds are added to flour when baking bread.

Red juice, as food coloring, can be tinted alcoholic drinks, kissels, compotes.

I think that the red garden quinoa, as an unpretentious, very productive, the earliest vitamin crop, in addition, having outstanding decorative properties, will find a worthy place in the gardens and vegetable gardens of the Urals and Siberians.

In conclusion, I enclose a few recipes(according to A. M. Rusanov).

Stuffing for pies

Young leaves and shoots of nettle (500 g) pour boiling water and soak for 5 minutes, put on a sieve, let the water drain, chop together with quinoa (500 g), mix with boiled rice (100 g) and chopped boiled eggs (5 pcs. ), salt to taste.

soup dressing

Grind the dried quinoa and nettle (1 cup each), sift through a sieve, add 3 tbsp. tablespoons of cumin seeds and mix thoroughly. Use as a seasoning for first courses, adding 5 minutes before. until ready.

Soup

Pour into boiling water (1 l) semolina(50 g) and, stirring, cook. Washed leaves of quinoa and sorrel (200 g each) are finely chopped, salted, dipped in soup and brought to readiness. Before serving, put finely chopped green onions, cucumbers (40 g), dill (5 g), sour cream (20 g), salt to taste into the chilled soup.

Salads

quinoa leaves and green onions rinse, dry, chop, put on a dish. Put boiled egg slices on top, salt and pour with mayonnaise.

Quinoa, dill and parsley greens, protein boiled egg finely chop and mix. Season with boiled yolk, mashed with sour cream, lightly salt.

Paste

Grind quinoa and sorrel leaves (50 g each) in a meat grinder, add butter (100 g), mustard (10 g) and salt to taste, mix everything and use for sandwiches.

Max Maksimovich Nichepurnov , agronomist, 456531, Chelyabinsk region, Sosnovsky district, Sargazy settlement, st. Michurin, 16-1, Nichepurnov Max Maksimovich.

Garden quinoa is not an enemy, but a friend

This plant has various names; mountain spinach, french salad, swiss chard, garden quinoa. It will decorate your garden, will be indispensable in many spring and summer meals can also be used as a medicinal plant.

But for the vast majority of gardeners, the word "quinoa" means the mortal enemy of the garden and garden, no matter what is written after this terrible word. This name is very shocking to everyone.

Yes, this is understandable, because in the minds of gardeners, quinoa is in the forefront of the most malicious weeds next to wheatgrass, thistle, dandelion, wormwood, although in lean and war years, it, along with nettle, more than once saved our ancestors from starvation.

But now it's about the deserving of the most widespread vegetable culture. The genus of quinoa is very numerous, with a large number of species. But they are all weeds. No wonder in the old days they said: "Sow thistle and quinoa are a disaster for crops."

Only one plant of this genus has been introduced into the culture - garden quinoa, which has two varieties: a salad form with green and yellow leaves and decorative form with blood red leaves.

Forms with green and yellowish leaves can be grown in an area with little shading. And the red-leafed quinoa loves open, sunlit areas.

garden quinoa- annual herbaceous plant from the marev family. This is very rare vegetable crop in amateur orchards and orchards.

As a vegetable cultivated plant, garden quinoa was known back in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. It is currently widely cultivated in countries Western Europe and in the USA.

This is a very tall and powerful plant. Its stem is erect, pyramidal in shape, up to 1.8 meters high. The leaves are triangular, spear-shaped at the base, serrated, red, yellow, green or variegated. The flowers are very small, collected in bunches in spike-shaped inflorescences. The seeds are small, covered with a hard shell, because of this, they remain in the soil for a long time without germinating.

Now many varieties of this plant are known, but garden red, garden yellow and garden green are in the greatest demand.

garden quinoa- very cold-resistant plant, tolerates frosts down to minus 5°C. The most favorable temperature for plant development is 15-18°C. The garden quinoa is undemanding to soil fertility, but very demanding on the moisture content in the soil, and at the same time it withstands short-term drought well. But in this case, the quinoa quickly forms a flowering stem, its leaves coarsen and become unsuitable for food.

It is necessary to arrange beds with a quinoa in a bright place, although it can tolerate light partial shade. Delicate tasty greens can be obtained only with sufficient soil moisture.

They eat juicy greens with a salty taste. harvested leaves used fresh or cooked, in much the same way as chard and spinach. Moreover, it is necessary to use it as soon as possible, because the product fades quite quickly and loses its presentation.

Almost odorless, with the addition of onions, peppers, garlic, spicy greens, it is an ideal component for preparing a wide variety of salads, side dishes, various soups, while enriching them with protein. They make her and delicious meatballs. The leaves are also fermented and pickled, harvesting for future use.

In the countries of Western Europe, quinoa greens are widely used as a quality. winter vitamin seasoning for first and second courses, sauces, gravies. To do this, prepared leaves must be dried and ground into powder.

Red-leaved quinoa is also indispensable as a general tonic vitamin remedy. Quinoa leaves have the richest chemical composition. They contain vegetable proteins and various mineral salts, rich in vitamin C.- up to 95 mg/%, rutin- up to 110 mg/%. They contain much less oxalic acid than the famous spinach. And in terms of yield, garden quinoa is far superior to spinach, and it accumulates nitrates much less than spinach.

Quinoa can also be used as a medicine. From grass, for example, you can prepare poultices for sciatica and hemorrhoids. Leaves are applied to wounds, tea from the leaves is drunk for hoarseness, colds, coughs. Infusions are used for rickets, constipation. The juice of the plant expels worms well, cleanses the intestines, and removes unnecessary substances from the body.

Juice is prepared from young leaves and stems of quinoa, they are passed through a meat grinder and squeezed. Drink 0.25 cups with 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey 20 minutes before meals 2-3 times a day. Juice lubricates abrasions, as it has a remarkable antibacterial effect.

Quinoa- the earliest of all vitamin plants and can compete with spinach and early salads, but it is much more profitable than spinach, since its leaves are much larger, and it does not shoot as fast as he does. To have quinoa on the table all summer, it is sown at several times with an interval of 20-30 days.

garden quinoa- a very cold-resistant plant and therefore does not need to create any special conditions for its cultivation. However, a good harvest of delicate greenery can only be obtained on well-prepared beds with constant watering. It is very profitable to grow it as an early green in a greenhouse.

The soil for the garden quinoa is prepared in the fall: they dig it to the depth of the bayonet, first adding 1 sq. m for half a bucket of rotted compost, 1 tbsp. spoon of superphosphate and 1 teaspoon of potash fertilizer. In the spring, as soon as the soil allows, it is loosened to a depth of 8-10 cm, adding 1 teaspoon of ammonium nitrate per 1 sq. meter.

It is cultivated by sowing seeds in open ground from early spring, as soon as the soil allows, and then two weeks later before the onset of hot weather. In conditions- short daylight hours, flowering occurs later, and the yield of green mass is higher.

In gardens, garden quinoa is sown in rows with a row spacing of 35-40 cm. Seeds are planted to a depth of 2-3 cm. After sowing, the soil must be rolled. And if you are going to use the quinoa only as an early spring salad plant, then the seeds in the garden can be sown simply in bulk. Seeds germinate in 6-7 days.

From the first days of germination, it is necessary to provide plants with sufficient area nutrition. They are thinned out, gradually increasing the distance between them in a row so that the plants do not touch each other. With an optimal feeding area, they develop very quickly and are ready for harvesting after 25-32 days.

Caring for a quinoa during the growing season is simple: remove weeds in a timely manner and loosen the soil. It is harvested when the plants reach 18-25 cm in height, uprooting or cutting off the stem at soil level. It is advisable to use fresh herbs immediately.

The quinoa easily propagates by self-sowing, so once you grow a plant with seeds, you don’t have to worry- on the next year they will give excellent results.

Plant care consists in loosening row spacing and removing weeds. In the phase of two true leaves, seedlings are thinned out, leaving a distance of 15-20 cm between young plants, and after another 10 days this distance is increased to 30 cm. Plants are fed on poorly prepared soil after thinning with nitrogen fertilizers (1 teaspoon of urea per 10 liters of water ). Plants are watered during dry periods.

During the growing season, the greens of the quinoa are cut off for food 2-3 times, cutting off the leaves and tops of the plants, leaving part of the leaves for the development of the plant. You can also cut the whole plants or uproot them when they reach a height of 40 cm. In the area freed up, vegetable plants can be re-sown.

To obtain fresh herbs throughout the summer, repeated crops are done after 12-15 days.

To obtain seeds, the seed bush is not touched until autumn. So that the shoots do not fall, they must be tied to a support. autumn seed plants cut and grind. In seed stores, good varieties are most often found Ogorodnaya yellow, Ogorodnaya green, Sadovaya red, etc.

Red quinoa is not only useful food product, it is very decorative, so it can be used in flower beds and bouquets. To preserve the decorativeness of the bush, flower stalks are cut off. Although after the seeds ripen, the plant looks even more beautiful: the bracts that cover the fruit form bright crimson clusters. By autumn, the entire bush becomes red-crimson. Quinoa inflorescences look good in bouquets with white asters.

The garden quinoa, like all its wild "relatives", is prone to self-seeding. And it should not be allowed, because it greatly clogs the site.

V. A. Loiko

(Ural Gardener No. 21, 2013)

Every gardener is familiar with the quinoa plant, beneficial features which deserve close attention. An unpretentious weed, also called white gauze, belongs to the family of gauze. In most countries it is cultivated as ornamental plant and leaf vegetable. Unfortunately, the common man does not know healing properties such a wonderful product. The article will focus on the healing power, indications and dangers of herbs. We hasten to assure you that after reading this, you will not want to destroy such a wonderful product in the garden.

What do we know about this herb?

The first mention of the plant was found in ancient Greek writings. Hippocrates himself strongly recommended the use of parts of the herb to treat gout and constipation. Until the 19th century, garden marijuana was widely used in cooking. In large volumes, it was cultivated all over the world along with cereals. Thanks to this, it was possible to develop new varieties.

Garden quinoa is no less popular in Russia. Useful properties (photo can be seen in the material) and high the nutritional value make the plant popular among herbalists. Shchi has been cooked from young leaves for a long time, added to salads. Seeds were mixed with cereals and cooked porridge. The crushed grass was added to flour, thus increasing the energy value of bakery products.

In our century, the demand for leafy vegetables is almost lost. But this does not prevent experienced herbalists from using the plant as a medicinal product. In addition, many landscape designers plant decorative varieties on the garden lawns. Especially popular red quinoa. Useful properties of this kind of shrubs can compete with spinach and beets. The purple color of the plant and beautiful spreading leaves give the garden a solemn look.

Growth area and harvesting methods

In the wild, it is found in vast territories: from the Caucasus to Western Europe. Russia is no exception. Even on Far East the bush is doing great. You can find grass on sandy slopes, in ravines, forests, floodplains. It tolerates frost and drought well.

The beneficial properties of the leaves are preserved fresh, dried, pickled and frozen. Harvest begins to harvest in the period active flowering(June-September). For medicinal purposes, ground parts are used: stems, leaves, flowers. The raw materials are dried, transferred to a glass or wooden container and stored for about a year.

What is the benefit?

In terms of nutritional value, leafy vegetables can compete with animal products. The composition is replete with protein compounds. Nutritionists advise including quinoa in the diet of losing weight people. The product is low-calorie, quickly saturates and does not provoke weight gain. The garden quinoa, the beneficial properties of which have been thoroughly studied by experts, is enriched with a set of irreplaceable minerals, as well as rutin and carotene.

The main advantage of grass is the presence oxalic acid. She's in charge of stimulating intestinal tract, contributes to a better movement of oxygen to the tissues of the body. It is impossible not to mention the fiber contained in green leaves and shoots. Seeds bring enormous benefits - they are used for beriberi and in the fight against constipation. The composition contains 17 amino acids that are not synthesized in human body. Now let's find out for what pathologies and disorders parts of the bush are used.

Weed plant to help people

After analyzing the biochemical composition, we understand why the ancestors treated the grass with reverence and respect. This is not only a "box" with valuable substances, but also a cure for numerous misfortunes. Ground parts are brewed, infused and used in the treatment of dermatological diseases. For bronchopulmonary diseases, quinoa is used. Useful properties (photo illustrates appearance herbs) weed plant hard to overestimate.

Note Recipes

Ancient recipes for decoctions save people today from various ailments. With proper preparation, quinoa, the beneficial properties of which have been used in traditional medicine, will help heal skin inflammation.

• Take fresh leaves, crush in a mortar. Apply the pulp on damaged areas (boils, purulent wounds, splinter), fix with gauze on top.

To improve the functioning of the digestive tract and get rid of constipation:

• Dilute grass juice with water in a ratio of 1:3. Drink 50 ml daily, three times a day. The tool can be used for preventive purposes. Salads are made from leafy vegetables, seasoned with olive or vegetable oil.

Quinoa will help from helminthic invasion:

We treat cough:

• Stir a dessert spoon of dry grass in a glass of boiling water. Insist for 10 minutes. Add honey to the decoction and drink.

About harm

Virtually no restrictions on the use of quinoa. Useful properties and contraindications are at different levels. Use with caution in persons with allergies. It is not recommended to use for stomach ulcers and intestinal tract, as well as for colitis.