Its flowers have a corolla divided into four parts and enclosed in a lilac-purplish calyx, which is then enclosed in a green calyx. It’s the most widely known species, the one covering granitic areas like a carpet in autumn.
Heather is a cure against rheumatisms and to eliminate the surplus of uric acid, due both to a bad functioning of kidneys and kidney stones, even when joints are already affected. Moreover, heather can be helpful in many cases of urinary ways infection (cloudy urines, cystitis, blenorragia, painful disorders, suspect leaks).
Harvest
Heather can be found along the roadsides, in the woods or in uncultivated fields at the end of autumn. Gather flowers when they are still in bud: they can be kept very well for months if you arrange them in bunches and hang them in the attic. Heather can be grown in the garden too, in spring in a sandy and rich of humus soil.
Preparation and use
Flowers decoction (to heal all urinary ways infections, especially cystitis): boil a big handful of flowers in 1 l of water for 5 minutes. (3 cups per day).
Infusion (as diuretic and against kidney stones): one small handful of heather for 2 l of water (2 cups per day).
Baths (to heal rheumatisms): throw a handful of heather in the bath water (2 times per day)
Hand and foot baths (to heal rheumatisms): two handfuls of heather into a basin of water. Repeat it 3 times per day.
Decoction for your skin (to clear up freckles, to heal dermatosis and to soothe skin rashes): 5 pinches of flowers in half a litre of water.
Strong infusion (to prevent genitourinary disorders an especially prostate disorders): 3 pinches of heather flowers, 2 pinches of lime bark, 2 pinches of thyme in a big bowl of boiling hot water (to drink every night for one week).
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