Lilac Shrub - Symbolism Medicinal Uses and Other Facts

By Liliana Usvat

Who doesn't love lilacs? The ideal lilac shrub has about 10 canes and produces flowers at eye-level—all the better to enjoy that sweet, haunting fragrance.

Symbolism

Lilacs are often considered to symbolize love (see language of flowers). In Greece, Lebanon, and Cyprus, the lilac is strongly associated with Easter time because it flowers around that time; it is consequently called paschalia.


Syringa vulgaris is the state flower of New Hampshire, because it "is symbolic of that hardy character of the men and women of the Granite State"
The lilacs is the flower weddings and anniversaries, to outdoor parties. For a lilac bush has a long full life, it also means tradition, family, spiritual heritage can be given mother's parents and relatives.



Lilacs are hardy, easy to grow, and low maintenance. They can grow from 5 to 15 feet tall, depending on the variety. The fragrant flowers are good for cutting and attractive to butterflies.

Magical Uses  

Lilac drives away evil flowers by planting flowering plants or sprinkling. Fresh lilac flowers can be placed in a haunted house to be "clean" spirits. The plant is used for peace, clairvoyance, divination, creativity, happiness, harmony, exorcism, protection, psychic awareness, weddings and anniversaries reîncarnare.


Lilac is the flower, the outdoor parties. For a lilac bush has a long full life, it also means tradition, family, spiritual heritage can be given mother's parents and relatives.

Planting

• Grow lilacs in fertile, humus-rich, well-drained, neutral to alkaline soil (at a pH near 7.0). If your soil is in poor condition, add compost to enrich.
• Select a site where your lilac will get full sun—at least 6 hours. If lilacs don't get enough sun, they will not bloom well.
• Make sure the site drains well. Lilacs don't like wet feet and will not bloom with too much water.
• Plant in either spring or fall, although the latter is preferred.
• Transplanting lilacs from a nursery is also easy. If it's container-grown, gentle remove it and any rope before planting. Set the plant 2 or 3 inches deeper than it grew in the nursery, and work topsoil in around the roots. Water in. Then fill in the hole with more topsoil.
• Space multiple lilac shrubs 5 to 15 feet apart, depending on the variety.

Pruning Lilacs

• Lilacs bloom on old wood, so it's critical to prune in the spring right after they bloom. If you prune later in the summer, you may be removing the wood. Here's a tip: If your lilac flower clusters are getting smaller, time to prune!
• Every year after bloom, remove any dead wood. Prune out the oldest canes (down to the ground). Remove the small suckers. Cut back weak branches to a strong shoot. Cut back tall canes to eye height.

Festivals

Several locations in North America hold annual Lilac Festivals, including:

• The Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, which celebrates "Lilac Sunday" every May. The Arboretum shows off its collection of over 422 lilac plants, of 194 different varieties.Lilac Sunday is the only day of the year when picnicking is allowed on the grounds of the Arboretum.
• Lombard, Illinois, called the "Lilac Village", which has an annual lilac festival and parade in May. The village also contains Lilacia Park, a garden with over 200 varieties of lilacs, as well as over 50 kinds of tulips.
• Mackinac Island, in Michigan, which celebrates a weeklong lilac festival and lilac parade each June.
• Rochester, New York, which has held its Lilac Festival since 1898, the longest-running in North America. This celebration is held in Highland Park, which has the most varieties of lilacs at any single place, many of which were developed in Rochester.
• The Royal Botanical Gardens near Hamilton, Ontario, which holds its Lilac Celebration each May.

• Spokane, Washington, known as the "Lilac City", which holds an annual lilac festival and lilac parade.
• Franktown, Ontario, Canada, holds an annual festival

 Medicinal Uses

Decoct of the leaves boiled in sweet milk bat can be used for skin cleansing

Water lilac flowers and alcohol is prepared as follows:  

• a glass half filled with flowers of lilac 
•  alcohol is added to 1 liter, 
• close well and leave 
• in the dark for 30 days, 
•  then strain,  
• squeeze sediment , and
•  the obtained water is mixed with 250-500 ml of distilled water. 

Lilac water is used as compresses for skin.
 

The infusion of the lilac leaves of the  is used to 

• improve the respiratory tract diseases accompanied by cough, 
• bronchitis or
•  and 
•  kidney stones.
• Against rheumatic pain ointment is made from 40 grams of lilac flowers, put to soak in a liter of oil for two weeks in a warm dark place. Painful areas are coated with this mixture several times a day, massaging it easy.
• Lilac leaves, boiled in milk, clean skin spots. 

• White lilac burns remedy - White lilac leaves can be used as a remedy against all kinds of burns. Lilac leaves are picked and boil until the water turns black. Allow broth to cool and when it is hot, remove the leaves and apply on the affected area of the burn. Fitted with a strip of gauze or clean cloth and keep 24 hours, during which the dressing should not be allowed to dry for wound not worsen. 
• Glaucomul - External use White Lilac - Infusion of a spoonful of flowers per cup of water (250 ml)  Leave covered a minute and then strain. It compresses on the eyes, each 15 minute 
  
  

This plant has anti-inflammatory properties enviable.  

• In addition it is used to treat rheumatism,
•  malaria and  
• high blood pressure.

Other uses

•  The lilac has an antiseptic effect on the environment, destroying germs on a surface of up to 1.5 meters around it.

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