Healthy wild garlic protects our vessels

Tasty and healthy: wild garlic cleans the vessels
Wild garlic is known as a delicious garlic substitute. The spicy plant is found in pesto, various pasta sauces or even oil. Wild garlic is not only extremely tasty, but also has a lot to offer for the health.

Wild garlic: a wonder of nature. Image: Dušan Zidar / fotolia

Vascular expanding ingredient in wild garlic
Wild garlic has long enjoyed great popularity in home cooking. The plant, which tastes similar to garlic or chives, is not only delicious but also healthy. As the news agency dpa reports, wild garlic boosts circulation and can even relieve migraine, because there is a lot of adenosine in the green leaves. This substance has a vasodilator effect and is also contained in garlic, for example. In addition, wild garlic leaves contain sulfur compounds in the essential oil, which make up the typical odor and stimulate the liver and bile. In addition, wild garlic, magnesium, manganese and iron are abundant. The consumer information service has pointed this out.

Raw, the plant is especially healthy
In natural medicine, the wild vegetables are used among other things in complaints such as asthma, fever, bronchitis or hypertension. As the dpa writes, it is especially healthy when the plant is eaten raw, for example in salads or quark on the bread. But you can also flavor butter, oil or mustard with wild garlic. Or you can process the plant into pesto, for example to a walnut pesto with wild garlic. In principle, the plant should only be boiled or steamed for a very short time in order to preserve as many ingredients and flavors as possible.

Likelihood of confusion when self-collecting
If you want to gather wild garlic yourself, you have to be careful. Consumer advocates warn again and again that the smooth leaves are easily mistaken for poisonous lilies of the valley or even those of the highly poisonous Herbstzeitlosen. These plants grow at the same time and in similar places as wild garlic. Consuming the doppelganger can cause life-threatening poisoning. If signs of nausea and vomiting, convulsions, cardiovascular complaints and blood in the stool appear, a doctor should be consulted immediately. (Ad)