Wild and cultivated plants of the world: diversity, human use. wild plants examples

Their main difference is that cultured man grows purposefully, displays various varieties within the species.

However, this is an unscientific classification of representatives of the flora.

Generally accepted classification of wild and cultivated plants

Scientists divide all plants into two sub-kingdoms: lower and higher. The first group consists of four departments: brown, green, red, and the higher ones include such horsetail, lycopsform, psilotoid, fern-like, gymnosperms and angiosperms. The first five groups of plants reproduce by spores, and the last two by seeds. Gymnosperms differ from angiosperms in that they have flowers, so the plants of this department are also called flowering plants. Mostly cultivated plants world belong to And in general, flowering and gymnosperms are by far the most numerous groups of plants.

Diversity of angiosperms

Wild and cultivated plants propagated by seeds are very diverse and numerous.

Let's first look at the scientific classification of these representatives of the flora. So, wild and cultivated plants belonging to the flowering department are divided into two classes depending on the structure of the seeds: monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous. Monocotyledons include such families as cereals and lilies. Such plants in most cases are cultivated. Dicotyledons include families such as birch, willow, nightshade, cruciferous, legume, Compositae, Rosaceae. Among them there are also many crops that are grown by man.

Variety of gymnosperms

In all the families listed above, genera and species are distinguished.

Other plant classifications

Depending on the life form, wild and cultivated plants can be divided into eight groups:

Wild and cultivated plants, examples of which can be seen in the pictures, can also be divided into groups depending on their lifespan. So, there are annual, biennial and perennials. Annuals and biennials, but perennials can be shrubs, semi-shrubs, trees, etc.

Wild and cultivated plants: examples

Consider cultivated and wild plants that are used by humans in various fields.

The table below shows them.

Wild and cultivated plants: groups, examples, use

cultivation	Groups	Examples
wild	medicinal	calendula, valerian, wild rose, field chamomile, coniferous
	for the pulp and paper and furniture industries	spruce, birch, pine
	for eating	cranberries, blackberries, blueberries, blueberries
	weeds	quinoa, bluegrass, nettle, sow thistle
Cultural	decorative	narcissus, rose, tulip, orchid
	legumes	soybeans, beans, peas
	cereals	corn, wheat, rice, oats, millet
	sugar-bearing	sugar beet
	starchy	potato
	fibrous	flax, cotton, hemp, kenaf
	oilseeds	sunflower
	gourds	watermelon melon
	fruit	apple, pear, plum
	vegetable	tomato, cucumber, cabbage, radish, radish, turnip
	stimulating	coffee, tea, tobacco
	fodder	fodder beet, turnip

Now you know what cultural and wild representatives of the flora are and what groups they are divided into.

The flora is incredibly rich and diverse. Plants are able to live everywhere, adapting even to the most severe living conditions. They can be found in hot deserts, marshy swamps and the North Pole. When people started farming many years ago, the whole vegetable world divided into wild and cultivated plants.

The difference between cultivated plants and wild plants

All plants that can be found on the globe, are conventionally divided into two large groups:

wild - herbs, shrubs and trees that do not need special care. They can grow anywhere, depending on where the seed fell, from which the plant later grew.
Cultural - plants that a person grows and for which he regularly cares. They grow in gardens, orchards, summer cottages, parks, squares.

All plants on our planet have much in common: structure, nutritional habits, absorption of carbon dioxide and production of oxygen. However, as a result human activity plants have acquired many differences, and this applies, first of all, to the methods of their cultivation.

So, wild plants are able to grow well without human influence. To do this, they use Natural resources that surround them. And even if the living conditions are completely imperfect, plants manage to adapt to them. Precisely because they grow in wild nature, they were called wild.

Rice. 1. Thicket

Types of wild plants:

trees;
shrubs;
herbs.

Cultivated plants, on the contrary, need careful and regular care. Man grows them for a rich harvest.

How did cultivated plants appear?

In ancient times, all plants on the planet were wild. Ancient people only collected edible berries, fruits, roots and herbs, and spent a lot of time looking for them. The situation changed when our ancestors guessed to grow plants using seeds, and began to grow them near their settlements.

From that moment on, wild plants began to be gradually cultivated. Under the influence of man, they changed: they became larger, tasty, fruitful. Thus, cultivated plants appeared on the planet.

Why is it necessary to cultivate plants?

The quality of the fruits of wild plants is very different from the cultivated counterparts. It is enough to compare the berries of wild and cultivated raspberries: wild raspberries growing in the wild have very small and not so sweet fruits, and their number on the bush is much less than that of garden raspberries.

Rice. 3. Wild raspberry

Translated from Latin, the word "culture" means "cultivate", "cultivate". For many hundreds of years, people have cared for plants, carefully choosing only the best specimens. So gradually improved taste qualities cultivated plants, their productivity increased.

Thanks to the influence of man, the range of products has also grown. So, if a wild-growing apple tree has small, sour, greenish fruits, now there is a huge selection of apples of the most different tastes, colors and sizes.

Wild and cultivated plants

In nature, everywhere you can see plants that man has not planted. This wild plants. In the garden, in the field, in the garden, in the flowerbed, at home, people grow.

Fill the table. Bring at least three examples in each column.

Indicate with arrows which groups these cultivated plants belong to.

Our Parrot is a fruit lover and connoisseur. Complete his task.
Many wonderful fruits are grown in hot countries. Here are some of them. Do you know their names? Number according to the list. Orally describe the taste of fruits that you have tasted.

Here you can write fairy tale about a wild or cultivated plant, invented on the instructions of the textbook.

Tale of Burdock (burdock)

There lived Burdock. Everyone offended him and called him names for his large leaves and inconspicuous appearance. No one paid any attention to him from the flowers. The burdock was sad and dreamed that one day it would also bloom. And then one day, a bud began to appear in him, but from the cruelty and insults inflicted on him by other plants, he was unusual, but with thorns. When the time of flowering came, a tender red-violet flower appeared from a prickly bud, like a kind soul of Burdock. And then, something unusual happened. prickly globular flowers Burdock (Burdock) were able to travel, they were hooked with their small thorns-hooks for clothes, passing people, for animal hair and were transferred to new places where new burdocks germinated and appeared. All the plants respected Burdock and no longer laughed at him, because none of them could become a traveler like him.

The world of plants on planet Earth is very diverse. In the process of centuries of evolution, they have adapted to growing in different conditions: survive in northern regions with a cold climate, in deserts where there is practically no rainfall. This article will focus on wild plants, which are different. These are herbs, and cereals, and shrubs. Some of them have beautiful appearance, others are beneficial to humans, and still others are dangerous weeds that harm horticultural crops.

What plants are called wild

These are the species that spread by self-sowing or shoots without the participation and intervention of man. These plants do not need to create special conditions. They adapt themselves to life in their natural environment. Cultivated plant species appeared much later than wild ones. A person cares for them in order to receive good harvest. He sows them, fertilizes them, waters them, weeds them, loosens the soil in which they grow.

Wild plants have a high energy value, therefore, they are now increasingly being used as food additives or as an independent dish. The fact is that they are not afraid of the chemicalization of agricultural land, after which the soil contains a large amount of poisons and nitrates.

If this is an initially non-poisonous plant, it is impossible to get poisoned by it, like many vegetables, for the cultivation of which high doses of various substances are used. chemical fertilizers. Here is a small list of names of wild plants that can be eaten:

Nettle.
Horsetail.
Sorrel.
Oregano.
St. John's wort.
Mint.
Raspberries.
Currant.
Thyme.
Hop.
Plantain.
Chicory.
Burdock.
Sleep.
Lungwort.
Clover.
Angelica.
Blooming Sally.

Care must be taken when harvesting herbs. If, for some reason, to distinguish useful herbs from others is impossible, it is better not to collect them, they can harm your health.

Classification

All plants are divided into cultivated and wild. There are many types of wild plants, for example:

Herbs: nettle, euphorbia, cornflower, dandelion, plantain and many others.
Shrubs: raspberries, forest grapes, currants, blackberries, etc.
Trees: apple, pear, rowan, plum, oak, pine, birch, willow, etc.

There are wild plants that grow in the garden: onions, garlic, watermelons. In addition, plants are divided into medicinal, useful, edible and poisonous.

families

In nature, there are a huge number of plants that are conditionally divided into groups with similar properties, structure, and appearance. Most of all on the planet are flowering plants, which are monocots and dicots. Each of these classes is divided into families depending on the structure of the flower. The most numerous and widespread species belong to the following families:

Liliaceae are herbs with a long life cycle. They form bulbs, corms, rhizomes. They differ in shape and growing conditions. For example, lilies, tulips, goose onions.
Bluegrass (cereals) - a family of plants (wild and cultivated) with a different life cycle. For example, bamboo, reed, millet, feather grass, etc.
Nightshade. Representatives of this family are mostly herbs or creeping shrubs and much less often trees. Among them are many poisonous species, such as henbane.
Rosaceae - This family includes trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. For example, pear, cherry plum, apple tree, raspberry, currant, blackberry, strawberry, hemp, nettle, fig.
Cruciferous are herbs, less often - shrubs, as an exception - shrubs. Examples of wild plants of this family: shepherd's purse, colza, levkoy, mustard, horseradish, cabbage.
Compositae - the family includes 25 thousand species of herbaceous plants, shrubs, semi-shrubs, lianas, stunted trees. Example: elecampane, meadow cornflower, thistle, dandelion, sunflower, yarrow.
Umbrella - this family includes herbaceous plants. The most famous species are Siberian hogweed, ribwort, speckled hemlock.

In many wild-growing representatives of the flora, all parts are edible, and in some, only fruits, such as acorns, can be consumed. They can be harvested after the first autumn frosts. Acorns are edible if properly prepared. But you should beware of unripe fruits of wild plants, they are poisonous. They are easily distinguished by their green color.

Wild apples are a favorite treat for children. They are especially good at winter time when they get cold. Foresters do not pass by wild raspberries and currants. The berries of these plants are much smaller, but they have unique taste and aroma.

Edible wild plants

They are often found on our way, but many people do not know that they can be eaten, although they are often used to treat various diseases. About what wild plants can replenish our diet with vitamins, read below in the article.

Shepherd's bag

The medicinal properties of this plant have long been known, but few people know that they eat it. However, in China, this herb is a vegetable. Here, the shepherd's purse is used for cooking first courses, salads, salt for the winter. Best time for use of a plant in food - spring.

Surepka

This plant is the most common. The place of growth are meadows, fields, vegetable gardens, pastures. Everything useful is contained in the leaves. But you need to collect them until the plant has bloomed. This herb has a bitter taste, so it is mixed with other types of greens when preparing a salad. Tasty and healthy are pancakes from flowers, but fully bloomed. However, for people with diseases of the stomach and intestines, a wild plant is contraindicated.

Chistets marsh

This is an edible plant with bad smell. But don't dismiss it right away. The smell will disappear as soon as you start cooking the dish. Ripe tubers are suitable for food, which should be collected at the end of summer. They are fried, boiled, dried, salted for the winter. Chistets tends to fade quickly, so you need to collect as many plants as you need for cooking.

Clover

This unpretentious plant grows in nature as an annual and perennial grass with flowers of white, red, pink hue. Clover is known for its useful qualities. It contains vitamins and minerals that our body needs. Many cultures use grass in various forms. It is dried for the manufacture of seasonings, additives to flour. IN fresh clover is used to make salads. In the Caucasus, pickled flowers of the plant are eaten. This grass is an excellent honey plant, flowers are pollinated by bees and bumblebees. Honey produced by bees from the nectar and pollen of clover has a great taste. This grass is an important part of the forage base of livestock.

cattail

This representative of the flora belongs to wild herbaceous plants. In nature, it grows near water bodies, in swamps and adjacent places. The roots of this herb are edible. They can be baked, boiled, dried, pickled, and also ground into flour. The leaves located at the rhizome are suitable for salads.

Blooming Sally

This plant is also known as fireweed. All parts of it are edible. wild plant many people use it for brewing tea, but not everyone knows that flour and salads can be made from it. The leaves and flowers are used to make wine, and the roots are used for casseroles.

Common bracken fern

The petioles of the plant, until they have blossomed, resemble snails. They are the ones used for food. Prepared from ferns vegetable stew, it is salted for the winter. If the leaves have blossomed, such plants are not suitable for consumption. Fern collection time is late spring or early summer.

Beautiful flowering wild plants

These plants during the flowering period are in most cases beautiful. In general, it is customary to talk about flowers as something special and sublime. But in nature there are many wild plants whose flowers will compete with garden hybrids and varieties. And there is another category of plants. Planting them once for beauty intentionally, you risk never getting rid of them. In the garden and garden, they compete with cultivated plants, as they consume 1/3 of all nutrients contained in the soil and moisture. Weeds are very tenacious plants, they adapt even to the herbicides with which they are treated. But many wild, herbaceous plants are so beautiful that they can hardly be considered weeds. These include:

Mayweed.
The bell is crowded.
Lily curly (saranka).
May lily of the valley.
Lychnis chalcedony.
Day-lily.
Bought fragrant.
Hellebore black.
Tansy and many others.

Dandelion

These plants are considered the most common urban weeds. They are very unpretentious, grow everywhere, with the exception of the Arctic, highlands and Antarctica. This flower belongs to perennial wild plants. The dandelion genus includes more than 2000 apomictic microspecies, but in our country the most common is medicinal (field or ordinary).

Violet

A genus of wild plants, numbering 500 species, of which about twenty are found in the European part of Russia.

Violets are annuals, biennials and perennials. They are most common in the Northern Hemisphere, regions dominated by a temperate climate. Violets of many species are cultivated, they are grown as ornamental plants, and in one place, without any transfers. But in abandoned gardens and parks, they run wild again.

wild medicinal plants

The flora of our planet is amazing and diverse. Among numerous families there are poisonous and edible plants, there are also those that are beneficial for Agriculture and other industries. But of particular importance are wild medicinal plants that help a person cope with a disease or prevent it. Some of them are listed below in the article.

Mother and stepmother

This wild plant blooms in April, as soon as the gentle sun warms the earth. In well-lit areas, flowers appear, painted in a yellow tint, similar to small suns. This is mother-and-stepmother. The plant is medicinal, it is used in medicine. So, for example, flower and leafy infusions are used to treat coughs. The plant is an excellent honey plant for the spring collection of pollen and nectar by bees.

calamus ordinary

Refers to perennial wild plants. It reaches a height of 10 cm. It grows near lakes, rivers, swamps, streams, in flooded meadows. It is believed that next to calamus always pure water. The roots of the plant have medicinal value. They need to be harvested in early spring or late autumn. They are dried and used nervous disorders, fever.

Melilot officinalis

This plant reaches a height of one meter. Places of growth - meadows, fields, roadsides. The leaves and flowers of the plant are valued, which should be harvested in June-August. The dried leaves are used to make a tincture, which is taken to treat gout, rheumatism, and insomnia. The plant also has diuretic properties. It can not be used during pregnancy and blood incoagulability.

Burdock (burdock) felt

This plant is easily distinguished by its large leaves and characteristic flowers and fruits. As a rule, burdock grows in wastelands, roadside, in the forest. This is a well-known and widespread representative of the flora. Rhizomes should be harvested before the onset of winter or early spring. An ointment is prepared from fresh roots for the treatment of wounds and burns. The leaves are used to protect against bacteria, they relieve heat well. They must be applied to wounds. A decoction prepared from the roots helps in the treatment of the intestines and stomach, it is used as a diuretic. The benefits of burdock in the treatment various diseases has long been known, but the fact that the leaves and roots young plant eat, few know. The roots of young plants are edible. But if the burdock is cooked incorrectly, it will be bitter. It is better to fry or boil it.

hogweed

This plant has a long life cycle, powerful, has big sizes: two meters high. Distributed everywhere. Place of growth - meadows, fields, coniferous forests, gardens, banks of reservoirs. IN traditional medicine rhizomes and leaves are used, from which soothing infusions are prepared for the relief of convulsions, the prevention and treatment of skin diseases (for example, scabies), and digestive disorders. fresh leaves used as a lotion for rheumatism. Hogweed is an edible plant. Its herb in dried, pickled or salted form is added to first courses.

sour

The plant is characterized by a small height (up to 10 cm) and creeping shoots. Places of growth - forests, shores of lakes, rivers. Oxalis prefers to grow in moist soil and in the shade. Based on the plant, an herbal infusion is prepared. It is used in the treatment of liver and kidney diseases. The herb has a diuretic and analgesic effect. It is also used externally, especially in the treatment of festering wounds. In addition, the acid is suitable for eating. Soups are made from it.

Nettle

There are two types of medicinal herbs that are used by official and traditional medicine: stinging nettle and stinging nettle. This plant has a diuretic and expectorant, laxative and anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and wound healing, analgesic and hemostatic effect. In pregnant women, taking infusions of nettle, the level of iron in the blood normalizes. In folk medicine, nettles are treated:

Cold.
dropsy.
Constipation.
Dysentery.
Gout.
Haemorrhoids.
Liver.
Bronchi and lungs.
Rheumatism and more.

Mint

The genus includes about 42 species, and this is not taking into account garden hybrids. She is valued as medicinal plant containing a large amount of menthol, which has an anesthetic effect. This substance is part of drugs for the treatment of diseases of the heart, blood vessels: Valocordin, Validol, Zelenin drops. Mint has the following beneficial properties:

Normalizes bowel function.
Brings order to the nervous system.
Eliminates insomnia.
Relieves nausea.
Helps with diarrhea.
Reduces swelling, relieves pain in inflammatory processes of the respiratory organs.
Strengthens gums, destroys microbes. It is used for rinsing the mouth.

Plantain

For medicinal purposes, two types of this plant are used: flea plantain and Indian plantain. They contain ascorbic acid, carotene, phytoncides. Psyllium extracts obtained from the leaves of the plant are used to treat severe gastrointestinal ulcers. Juice is taken for gastritis, enteritis. It improves digestion. Leafy infusions help to remove sputum from bronchitis, pleurisy, whooping cough, pulmonary tuberculosis, and asthma. In addition, plantain is used in the following cases:

For blood purification.
Wound healing.
Removal of inflammation.
Pain relief.

Wormwood

This plant is used in gastroenterology. Its leaves are rich in substances useful for the human body. The benefits of nettle are as follows:

It has a stimulating effect on the reflex function of the pancreas.
Normalizes the activity of the gallbladder.
Relieves inflammation.
Contained in the plant essential oil excites the nervous system.
The bitterness present in the grass excites the appetite, normalizes digestion.

Quinoa

This herb is well known to the older generation. In the war years, as well as lean years, quinoa seeds were ground, added to rye flour and baked bread. He, of course, did not have an attractive appearance and was tasteless, but he helped to survive. The quinoa is valued for its chemical composition. It contains potassium and rutin in large quantities. Thereby medicinal herb widely used in cardiology. In addition, it is useful for the treatment of diseases:

Respiratory organs.
Stomach.
Skin.
Inflamed wounds.

Quinoa has a wound-healing and soothing, cleansing and expectorant, choleretic and diuretic effect. This herb is edible. Shchi, soups, cutlets, mashed potatoes are prepared from it, and even bread is baked. Quinoa dishes are very satisfying.

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Lesson objectives: to characterize the features of the existence of wild and cultivated plants in nature, their diversity, significance for humans; to teach to distinguish between life forms of plants and cultivated plants according to their purpose.

Equipment: ball, flags of different colors (red and green).

During the classes

1. Introduction to the topic.

– What are plants? (children's answer).

Plants are organisms that can convert the energy of sunlight into building material for their cells. This complex process is called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis occurs in special structures of plant cells - in chloroplasts, which contain a green pigment - chlorophyll, which colors the leaves and stems of plants green. In the process of photosynthesis, inorganic substances (water and carbon dioxide) are converted under the action of sunlight into organic substances - sugar and starch - the very building material of plant cells. Plants give off the oxygen we need to breathe. Therefore, the plant world (flora) of the Earth is the “lungs” of our planet.

Most plants have a stem, root, and leaves. The stem with leaves is called the shoot. In trees, the stem is called the trunk. Leaves and roots are the breadwinners of plants. The roots help the plant to stay on the ground. Many of the plants have developed defenses against herbivores, with leaves and stems being the most common defenses. The leaves of plants can be bitter and even poisonous, like wormwood and henbane, or stinging, like nettles, or hard and sharp, like sedges. The stems are often armed with spines or thorns. All of these adaptations help plants survive by reducing the number of people who want to eat them.

- What do you guys think, how long ago did plants appear on Earth?

– Tell us what our planet looked like billions of years ago? (If the children find it difficult to answer, then the teacher comes to the rescue.)

- 3.8 billion years ago, warm seas covered almost the entire surface of the globe, but the simplest plants already existed at that time.

Where did these plants live? (In the seas).

So, many millions of years ago, life was concentrated in sea waters. It was algae that managed to survive and become land plants.

2. Learning new material.

A conversation based on the knowledge of the students.

Wild plants.

Now the flora of our planet is extremely rich; more than 300 thousand plant species inhabit the Earth. Plants have adapted to all climatic conditions. They grow everywhere: they can live in the desert, where there is practically no rain, in Arctic zone where the bitter cold reigns.

Who waters these plants? Loosen the soil? Feeding with fertilizers? Who looks after them?

“These are wild plants.

Give an example of wild plants.

What three groups can such plants be divided into? (Trees, shrubs, herbaceous)

– Look at the drawings on pages 54-55.

- Name all the plants, indicate which ones are wild.

cultivated plants.

- How tasty and healthy oatmeal, oatmeal, gingerbread!

- Where does oats grow?

- How long do people have to look for oats to cook oatmeal flakes for children, bake oatmeal gingerbread cookies? (Oats are not looked for, they are grown specially in the fields).

What does it mean to grow?

(They prepare the soil, sow, fertilize, fight weeds and pests, harvest on time.)

That is, a person himself takes care of getting a rich harvest of oats, and does everything possible for this. Such plants are called cultivated.

Give an example of cultivated plants.

“People started getting interested in growing plants around 10,000 years ago. This process was caused by the desire to alleviate the problem of obtaining food.

3. Physical education.

4. Classification of cultivated plants.

Questions for students.

- Where do plums, currants, cucumbers grow?

- So, into what groups can cultivated plants be divided?

- Look at the diagrams on pages 54-56 of the textbook and complete them by naming 2-3 cultivated plants of each group.

5. The game "define the plant" (flags are used).

The condition of the game is negotiated: red is a cultivated plant, green is a wild plant.

The teacher calls different plants, children with a flag of the corresponding color show which group it belongs to.

6. Solving a crossword puzzle.

Horizontally:

1. Blue uniform,
white lining,
And in the middle - sweet. (Plum)

3. Cheers in the spring,
It's cold in summer
Feeds in autumn
Warms in winter. (Wood)

4. Little man,
Bone coat. (Nut)

5. Two sisters are green in summer,
By autumn, one turns red,
The other turns black. (Currant)

Vertically:

2. What grass does the blind know? (Nettle)

6. Breathe, grow,
And he can't walk. (Plant)

7. The result of the lesson.

Well done boys! Today at the lesson we got acquainted only with some representatives of wild and cultivated plants.

- Why cultivated (wild) plants are so named. (Student answers)

Homework: pp.62-65.

Additional material.

An important field crop among cereals is oats. Delicious and nutritious, oats are easy to digest and therefore recommended for children and children. diet food. This has long been appreciated by the British, who every morning have breakfast with oatmeal. No wonder the flakes made from oatmeal were named after the ancient Greek hero, who was distinguished by remarkable strength, “Hercules”. Eat oatmeal and you will gain strength.

A thousand years ago, vegetables, herbaceous plants, entered human food. They are grown in all countries of the world, not only tasty, but also healthy. Vegetables not only help keep people healthy, but also restore it to those who are sick. More than 100 species of vegetable plants are known on the globe.

Man began to grow carrots 4000 years ago in the Mediterranean. Interestingly, at first, carrots were used exclusively as a medicinal plant, and humanity appreciated its taste qualities much later. The main wealth of carrots is provitamin A, or carotene. The lack of this vitamin in the body leads to increased fatigue, loss of appetite, increases the risk of colds and infectious diseases. Carrots are good for dietary nutrition in diseases of the cardiovascular system, liver and kidneys, but it is not recommended to use it during an exacerbation of peptic ulcer and inflammation of the small intestine. It is carotene that gives color to carrot roots, it is also used as a food coloring for coloring various fats, butter, margarine, confectionery creams. Carrots are indispensable for cooking soups, side dishes, sauces, salads.

A very valuable cultivated plant. All 2,000 varieties of domestic plum originated from the crossing of two wild species: blackthorn and cherry plum. Plum has been known in culture since the 4th century. BC. Plums are eaten fresh, compotes, jams are prepared, and also dried.

Currant.

crossing different types currants, a person received many varieties that can be divided into three groups: red, white and black (according to the color of the berries). All berries contain many vitamins, but the most useful is blackcurrant. Moreover, not only berries are useful, but also buds and even leaves. Currant fruits, leaves and buds rich in vitamins and minerals will help relieve inflammation, get rid of a number of fungal infections, have a positive effect on rheumatism, atherosclerosis, and cure headaches. Baths with a decoction of leaves and buds help with diathesis and dermatitis, lotions with this decoction treat eye diseases. Mixed with sugar, blackcurrant berries are stored all winter, being an excellent source of vitamins. But few people know that this delicacy also lowers blood pressure. Juice from fresh berries treats ulcers, liver diseases, normalizes metabolism. That's how much blackcurrant gives a person!