Description
Meadowsweet is a herbaceous, melliferous and medicinal perennial plant, 100-120 cm high, with white flowers in corymb. It is frequently encountered on the shores of streams, on plains, up to the upper limit of beech, as well as in the moist meadows and it flowers starting in the month of June, until the end of August.
For medicinal purposes, the aerial parts, collected during the flowering period, are used. The inflorescence is cut with the scissors, at maximum 1 cm from the axis which supports it, and the fresh flowers give off an odour of methyl salicylate when rubbed.
Use
In the dermato-cosmetics field, meadowsweet is used under the form of tea, extract for its astringent, clearance, anti-inflammatory, skin firming, healing and wound healing properties.