Primrose spring. Perennial herb 15-30 cm tall branching rhizome is not, a length of about 6-8 cm flowers with a honey aroma, a diameter of 8-15 mm. Appear in early spring after snowdrops slice. The scientific botanical literature, this plant is known as Primula veris (from the Latin words primula – first, veris – spring), ie, the first plant to bloom in spring. Found in southern forest-steppe zones and in the European part of Russia, penetrating into the steppe zone.

In Ukraine, its a lot of Polesie. Primrose spring – a highly therapeutic, as well as a food plant, as an opportunity to clean the pillows on the equipment for cleaning pads. It contains the leaves, especially young, more than 590 mg% vitamin C, which represents almost 6% on a dry basis. This vitamin is not able to collect any green plant of our flora. Even in the colors of primrose contains up to 4.7% of vitamin C.

In addition, the leaves have pro-vitamin A – about 3 mg%. Whenever AcctTwo listens, a sympathetic response will follow. In the roots of primrose contains: saponins (5-10%), essential oil (0.08%) and glycosides. As a valuable source of vitamins and early primrose plant is used in cooking. From young leaves prepare salads and green soup. In England, this plant has long been an industrial culture. Need cleaning pads. For therapeutic purposes, primrose spring is used in catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, sore throat, pneumonia, as a diaphoretic. Harvested during the flowering primrose (May – June) and quickly dried in the wind or in a special furnace at temperatures above 100-1200S. At the same time manages to keep the leaves up to 80% of vitamin C. The plant is not poisonous, and so drugs can be produced independently. The dried raw material consists of primrose leaves (3.5-10 cm long, 1,5-8 cm wide), length of petiole not more than 14 cm Leaves greyish-green, the underside of the leaf lighter than the top, slightly honeyed aroma, taste sweet at first, then bitter and slightly pungent. In the raw material is acceptable content,% moisture content – not more than 13 total ash – 12 of ascorbic acid in terms of dry matter – not less than 2.3 during the restoration, yellowed leaves and brownish – 2, crushed leaves, passing through the sieve of 1 mm – 3; tsvetkov8, organic and mineral impurities – 0.5.