In Medieval England, the young shoots were cooked and eaten like a vegetable. Today, the herb is mostly harvested for its thick, brown rhizome, which is harvested in the fall when the plant stores most of its energy for winter. Butchers Broom root is most often used to make herbal teas and tinctures. Small greenish flowers appear in spring, and are borne singly in the centre of the cladodes.
The female flowers are followed by a red berry, and the seeds are bird-distributed, but the plant also spreads vegetatively by means of rhizomes. It is also widely planted in gardens. The seed germinates better if it is given a period of cold stratification.
Germination can be rather slow, sometimes taking 12 months or more. Grow the seedlings in a shady spot of the greenhouse for their first growing season. Transplant into individual pots in the following spring and grow them on for at least another year in the pots before planting them out in early summer. Be very sure to protect the seedlings from slugs. Plants can be divided in early spring—larger divisions can be planted directly into the garden.
It's best to pot up the smaller divisions and grow them on in a lightly shaded cold frame, planting them out once they are well established in the summer. Seeds can be collected and roasted. Harvest the rhizome in the fall. It's a plant that resembles asparagus in its twig like nature. Its name actually came from it's use in butcher shops. The twigs were actually tied together and used literally as brooms. In ancient Greece, butcher's broom was used to treat a wide variety of problems having to do with blood vessels such as varicose veins.
It was also used by the Romans as well for circulatory problems. Now people continue to use it to treat those problems and more. Butcher's broom can be used externally or taken internally. Clin Drug Invest. Assessment by duplexsonography. An open-label, randomized multicenter study comparing the efficacy and safety of Cyclo 3 Fort versus hydroxyethyl rutoside in chronic venous lymphatic insufficiency.
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October The evergreen leaves of the Ruscus aculeatus are erect and tough. They features striated stems that are an eye-catching glossy green.
The leaves look thorny but the thorns are only false. They used the small hand brooms to clean their butcher blocks and cutting boards. The flowers quickly give way to brilliant, glossy, red berries. The berries only develop on the female plants and persist throughout the summer months and into the winter. It grows well in a wide array of soil conditions, however it does not tolerate flooded areas where it will be exposed to constantly wet roots.
Once established, it can withstand periods of long drought. The small, hardy shrub is virtually pest and disease free.
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