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Winter savory, and its annual cousin summer savory, Satureja hortensis, and known mainly as culinary herbs, though they do possess medicinal properties. Savory is a carminative herb recommend for gas and digestive upsets, including colic, diarrhea and indigestion. Its antiseptic and astringent properties make it a good treatment for sore throats. A poultice of the leaves gives quick relief to insect bites.
Winter savory has a stronger, more resinous flavor than the milder annual summer savory, both impart a peppery bite to foods and blend well with thyme, marjoram and basil. Both are used to marinate meats, add flavor to beans and vegetables. Savory are known especially as "bean herbs", because of the added flavor as well a reduction in flatulence and gas.
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Certified Organic Savory, Winter/Summer |  Satureja hortensis Origin- Turkey
Satureja montana Origin- Argentina |
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Preparation Methods & Dosage :Savory is used fresh or dried in cooking, and can be taken as a tea.
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Savory for :Culinary |
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Savory's peppery bite is a natural for fresh and dried legumes, including chickpeas, green beans, lentils, pinto beans, and split peas. It can also flavor soups, meats and vegetables |
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Savory for :Gas and Flatulence |
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Savory has aromatic and carminative properties, and though chiefly used as a culinary herb, it may be added to medicines for its aromatic and warming qualities. It was formerly deemed a sovereign remedy for the colic and a cure for flatulence, on this account, and was also considered a good expectorant. Maud Grieve, Modern Herbal Vol 1 (1931) |
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Satureja montana
- Flowers:Spikes of dainty white or lilac, with purple spotting on the lower lip
- Plant Class:Perennial Shrub
- Leaves: Semi-evergreen, narrow, dark-green and glossy
- Preferred Habitat:Light well drained soil in full sun
- Flowering Season:July - September. You can harvest fresh leaves as needes
- Distribution: natives of the Mediterranean region, grown worldwide in temperate zones
Winter savory is a perennial hardy to Zone 5. It is a compact shrub, 8 to 16 inches in height. It prefers well drained soil in full sun. Savory can be propagated from cuttings or root division, or you can start seed indoors and transplant to garden after all chance of frost has passed. Summer savory is an annual and likes the same conditions as its hardy cousin.
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 Savory was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and later imported to Europe. The American colonists brought both winter and summer savory to North America, and both are mentioned by the seventeenth-century botanist, John Josselyn. Savory was planted around beehives to flavor the honey. |
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 Mercury claims dominion over this herb, neither is there a better remedy against the colic and iliac passion, than this herb; keep it dry by you all the year, if you love yourself and your ease, and it is a hundred pounds to a penny if you do not; keep it dry, make conserves and syrups of it for your use, and withal, take notice that the Summer kind is the best. They are both of them hot and dry, especially the Summer kind, which is both sharp and quick in taste, expelling wind in the stomach and bowels, and is a present help for the rising of the mother procured by wind; provokes urine and women's courses, and is much commended for women with child to take inwardly, and to smell often unto. It cures tough phlegm in the chest and lungs, and helps to expectorate it the more easily; quickens the dull spirits in the lethargy, the juice thereof being snuffed up into the nostrils. The juice dropped into the eyes, clears a dull sight, if it proceed of thin cold humours distilled from the brain. The juice heated with the oil of Roses, and dropped into the ears, eases them of the noise and singing in them, and of deafness also. Outwardly applied with wheat flour, in manner of a poultice, it gives ease to the sciatica and palsied members, heating and warming them, and takes away their pains. It also takes away the pains that come by stinging of bees, wasps Nicholas Culpeper |
 The genus Satureja is named for the satyrs, ancient Greek mythical demigods of the forest who where known for their lusty habits and half-man/half goat shape. Legends held that the satyrs wore crowns of savory, and the herb was once held to be an aphrodisiac. | |
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