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Monday, November 10, 2014

Lilac Medicinal Use

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 259-365

Scientific Name Syringa vulgaris


















For deforested mountains and hills here is an idea for planters Lilac. Tourism will bloom in the areas where there are lilacs.

One of the best places in the world to get a first-hand look at the different varieties is at the annual Lilac Festival in Rochester, where more than 1,200 lilac bushes — and 600 varieties — are on display on 155 acres. “The Lilac Festival has been a yearly event since the early 1900s. It was a single-day event a long time ago, but in the ’70s we went to a full week festival,

History

Lilacs — both Syringa vulgaris and S. × persica the finer, smaller "Persian lilac", now considered a natural hybrid — were introduced into European gardens at the end of the sixteenth century, from Ottoman gardens, not through botanists exploring the Balkan habitats. The Holy Roman Emperor's ambassador, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, is generally credited with supplying lilac slips to Carolus Clusius, about 1562.
 Well-connected botanists, like the great herbalist John Gerard, soon had the rarity in their gardens: Gerard notes that he had lilacs growing “in very great plenty” in 1597, but lilacs were not mentioned by Shakespeare, and John Loudon was of the opinion that the Persian lilac had been introduced into English gardens by John Tradescant the elder.
Tradescant's Continental source for information on the lilac, and perhaps ultimately for the plants, was Pietro Andrea Mattioli, as one can tell from a unique copy of Tradescant's plant list in his Lambeth garden, an adjunct of his Musaeum Tradescantianum; it was printed, though probably not published, in 1634: it lists Lilac Matthioli. That Tradescant's "lilac of Mattioli's" was a white one is shown by Elias Ashmole's manuscript list, Trees found in Mrs Tredescants Ground when it came into my possession (1662): "Syringa alba".
In the American colonies, lilacs were introduced in the eighteenth century. Peter Collinson, F.R.S., wrote to the Pennsylvania gardener and botanist John Bartram, proposing to send him some, and remarked that John Custis of Virginia had a fine "collection", which Ann Leighton interpreted as signifying common and Persian lilacs, in both purple and white, "the entire range of lilacs possible" at the time.
Trivia
In a sign of its complete naturalization in North America, it has been selected as the state flower of the state of New Hampshire, because it "is symbolic of that hardy character of the men and women of the Granite State".

Medicinal Use
In medicine it has been used successfully in the treatment of malaria and in American is given as a vermifuge.”
Lilacs can be steeped to make a tonic that reduces fever and to get rid of internal parasites. Skin burns or wounds are soothed and heal well when a paste or gel made from lilacs is applied.
Some modern herbalists use the essential oil of lilac to treat skin ailments such as rashes, sunburns and minor cuts and scrapes.

The bark, branches and foliage contain bitter glycoside. Folk medicine uses flowers for kidney diseases. Lilac flowers mixed with lime flowers are used as the sudatory and anti-malaria remedy.