Heather Flowers

  Heather is an evergreen xerophilous bush.

  On the language of flowers heather is a symbol of loneliness.

  Heather is a dweller of dry, sandy places and peat bogs. Heather bushes produce a layer of acid-specific dark gray soil mixed with white sand and nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus poor ground. This layer is called the heather’s land and is used as a garden soil for rhododendrons, camellias, orchids.

  Heather flowers are small, bell-shaped with pinkish-purple different shades, forming multi-flowered inflorescence.

  Scientific medicine recognizes the wide range of positive effects of the herb and heathers flowers. It is used as an antiseptic and anti-inflammatory remedy for kidney, bladder and nephrolithiasis. It works as astringent during enterocolitis, as a sedative preparation and a light sleeping pill on the point of a psychotic meltdown and as an expectorant during bronchitis. Stomach and sedation remedies contain heather. You can treat wounds, ulcers and burns with heather dry flowers. The infusion of heather is used against rheumatism and homeopathy.