Eastern Sverbiga is a fodder honey culture with unique characteristics and properties. This perennial, rarely two-year-old, plant of the cabbage family, many of its popular names are known: jaundice, chicken sleep, wild radish, radish, field horseradish or mustard, fierce. It has a bitter taste. It can be distinguished by the appearance of a straight, not branched at the beginning, juicy, tender, with soft short warts, which further pass into coarse nodules, coarse, rough, branchy and rather strong stem, reaching one and a half meters in height. The upper leaves of the sverbigi are lanceolate, the base of the middle one looks like a spear, and the lower leaves are strugo-shaped. Its flowers have a strong attractive smell and a bright yellow color, attract bees, are honey-bearing. Sberbig is characterized by winter hardiness, it begins to grow early, and bloom in May, continues the flowering process in June and July, increasing its productivity every year.
Chemical composition
Biologically valuable plant sverbigu eastern makes its chemical composition. What is missing in her young greenery:
- 26% protein,
- 16% fiber,
- 10% fatty oil,
- squirrels,
- extractive substances that do not contain nitrogen,
- essential oils.
Salbigi salty paste, which can be stored for six months, contains 16% of vitamin C, and its freshly harvested greens - all 58%.Eastern sverbigi seeds contain from 10 to 30% fatty oil, which consists of various acids: 52% linolenic, almost 24% linoleic, 13% oleic, 4% palmitic, almost 4% arachidic, 2% stearic, 1 % - palmitoleic. In its aerial parts, sverbig has rutin, glucosinolates, flavonoids.
Scientists involved in the study of this culture, found in one kilogram in dry form a significant part of iron (214 mg), copper (8 mg), manganese (27 mg), titanium (50 mg), molybdenum (almost 6 mg), boron ( 20 mg), as well as nickel. Naturally, all-round trace elements of these microelements contain much more. All this composition says only one thing: the Eastern sverbig is extremely useful and valuable for living organisms.
Did you know? Sverbiga Oriental is also known in Ukraine thanks to the Zolotinka variety, developed by an outstanding breeder of forage crops by Professor Utoush Yury Adolfovich. Also here the variety Pavlovskaya is widespread.
What is useful
Eastern Sverbiga is an extremely useful plant not only for people, but also animals. 
It is very much appreciated in medicine and is used for the purpose of general strengthening the body, relieving inflammatory processes, destroying worms and preventing scurvy. This is an excellent culinary tool as a dressing for first courses, an important component of salads, seasoning for fish and meat.
In many countries it is grown as special valuable animal feed, because it is a rather unpretentious early growing culture, which can be started up due to the high capacity of sugar in sherbig for excellent and high-quality silage.
Also, livestock may graze on fresh water. Birds and other animals with great pleasure eat this plant, significantly saving their hosts on buying vitamin baits that complement the basic diet, because sherbig has almost all the necessary nutrients, minerals.
And although this culture is so rich in nutrients, it is still inferior as cattle food to legumes and cereals. In Germany, it has long been cultivated as the best animal feed. 
In agriculture, cultivate eastern sverbigi - very profitable businessbecause it breeds in huge quantities on completely different soils, not exposed to any pests and diseases.
And even better harvest can be achieved if you bring in a little mineral fertilizer to the land where the crop will grow, for example, one kilogram of nitrogen fertilizer will give you the opportunity to get up to 18 kg of dry sverbigi, which is up to about 120 kg of green mass.
Many years of not quite traditional Eastern sverbigu, containing a high level of proteins, just need to be grown along with more familiar cultures, because introducing it into the diet of an animal makes it possible to enrich its body, and, accordingly, the human body with the necessary microelements.
The content of useful fiber and the necessary protein in it is close to alfalfa, and the content of units intended as well as possible for raising livestock is the highest among all the plants used for this purpose. 
Also, Eastern Sverbig is a wonderful honey plant. Thanks to beautiful bright flowers, attractive smell and long flowering time of up to fifty days, bees always flock to sherbiga with pleasure. This is most active in the early morning, but also throughout the day, regardless of the weather. Honey turns out tasty and very healthy.
Did you know? Eastern Sverbig quite accidentally came to Europe from Russia in 1813 during the Russian invasion of France, after which local residents noticed a previously unseen plant. Although some sources claim that already in 1731 it was discovered in the UK.
Where grows
Very light-requiring sverbiga east grows in fields, valleys, meadows, open forest areas, in steppe zones, near roads.
It spread in Ukraine, in many areas of Russia, in Siberia, today its distribution area has covered almost all of Europe (France, England, Germany and other countries), part of Northeast China, some eastern regions of Canada (discovered in 1944) and the United States (identified in 1958). 
It has grown considerably in the territory of the Urals, growing there in many places as weeds, as well as in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Scientists assume that the initial location of the eastern sverbigi is the Armenian Highland. Her bright yellow blossoms beautifully and attractively look on any background.
Collection and preparation of raw materials
For medical purposes, the Eastern Swedish is used completely. Spring leaves are collected; when it blooms - flowers and grass; autumn is the best time for digging up roots; seeds are harvested as they are formed. Only the roots of first-year plants are suitable for gathering; they, like seeds, can be stored for three years, leaves and grass save no more than one year.
Important! Sverbig eastern, easily breeding, can quickly form large thickets.
Recipes of traditional medicine
Sverbiga Oriental has excellent medicinal properties. The possibilities of using it for medical purposes are quite wide. 
First of all, it is used as an antihelminthic and anti-scintillation agent. It also has an anti-inflammatory and tonic effect. Remedies based on sverbigi are recommended when anemia is formed, scurvy, vitamin deficiency, weakness, decreased immunity, elevated sugar, metabolic disorders, polyneuritis, atherosclerosis, worsening appetite, melanoma, periodontal disease and other diseases. They help even with radiation damage.
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General recipe infusion: Pour 250 g of boiling water into a bowl with 20 g of Sverbigi, leaving it for about two hours to infuse, and then filter. Reception to carry out on one tablespoon three-four times a day. The tool is especially recommended for those who suffer from gastritis, while having a low acidity. Also, the infusion is very useful for weakness and hypovitaminosis.
50 g of freshly harvested and cleaned green stems, taken three times a day, will help replenish the body with vitamins, while taking 100 g three times a day will help melanoma and bleeding gums.
Juicing: rinse young green shoots and leaves with warm boiled water, scroll using a meat grinder, squeeze juice from the resulting mass. It is useful in the treatment of periodontal disease (you need to make an aqueous solution in a ratio of one to one), is also effective in washing and treating wounds. 
You can also make a decoction: Pour one tablespoon of minced sverbigi with hot water, let it boil for 5-7 minutes. Remove it from heat and let it brew for 20-30 minutes. This broth should be taken before meals for a third cup three times a day. It contributes to a significant reduction in sugar in diabetes and a qualitative improvement in the composition of the blood.
Cooking Application
Sverbig eastern has long been known as a plant that a person can eat. In Estonia, for example, when used as food, it was given the name "Russian cabbage", it is very popular among the peoples living in the South Caucasus, in England they made a cult of the plant for salads.
To taste sverbig someone reminds radishes, and someone - horseradish. In early spring, the fresh roots of first-year fresh plants are eaten with pleasure, it is quite possible to rub them, pickle them and even use them instead of horseradish.
If the roots are dried, they lose their inherent bitterness and can be used to prepare various seasonings and sauces for fish and meat dishes.
Eat fresh and stalks of sverbigi, of them, instead of radish, and cooked leaves are preparing salads. Also prepared from stems are zrazy, soups, caviar and more.
We advise you to read about the use of basil, arugula, dill, chervilloin, borage, cilantro, cardamom, oregano in cooking.
Boiled stems perfectly replace asparagus. But it must be remembered that the above-ground part of the sverbigi should be used before flowering, because then they, like roots older than one year, are not fit for human consumption. 
Sverbigu even harvested for the winter, it can be pickled, pickled, sour, dried. All dishes from this plant are delicious and, thanks to its microelements and vitamins, it is also extremely useful.
Important! In extreme conditions, for people left without food and water, Eastern Sverbig can help to survive.
Contraindications and harm
Eastern Sverbig is indeed a very useful plant, but with all this, it is necessary to begin the application and treatment with its help only after consulting a doctor.
If, after all, sverbigoy treatment is recommended, then the dosages must also be monitored, and it cannot be exceeded. Even the most useful and unique in its properties product, used in large quantities, can lead to very negative consequences. This also applies to Eastern swings. 
This plant is from the cabbage family, like all the others from this family, may cause increased gas formation, nausea, belching, bloating. And these are rather unpleasant and problematic moments that are easy to avoid, if you do not overdo it and not be sober-headed.
After all, the very name sverbigi, if you believe knowledgeable people, means a sequel inside, as if warning every connoisseur and lover of this plant about the consequences of overeating. Everything is always relevant in moderation.
In the pursuit of expensive and scarce drugs and products, we often do not notice beside ourselves modest, absolutely free, but no less valuable, plant helpers. Eastern Sverbig is just that.
This plant is unique in all its characteristics and properties. The scope of its application is striking in its diversity, and the fact that it can grow anywhere, as if it offers its own services, deserves worthy of attention. The plant is very unpretentious and equally useful, and in a difficult moment it can even save a human life.
