{"id":430,"date":"2014-12-08T08:59:34","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/?p=430"},"modified":"2014-12-08T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T08:59:34","slug":"orchis-mascula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/orchis-mascula\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchis mascula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Description of Orchis mascula:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The early Purple Orchis, common in English woods, is in flower from mid-April to mid-June.Bulb growing to 0.6m.A single flower-stem rises from the tuberous root, bearing flowers that as a rule are of a rich purple colour, mottled with lighter and darker shades, though often found of every tint from purple to pure white. Each flower has a long spur which turns upwards. The leaves are lance-shaped and do not rise far from the ground, giving a rosette-like effect, and are irregularly blotched with dark purple markings, which help to render the plant conspicuous. In woods and meadowland, the plant often attains a height of a foot or more, while on exposed and breezy downs it is seldom more than 6 inches high.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>cooked root is a source of &#8216;salep&#8217;, a fine white to yellowish-white powder that is obtained by drying the tuber and grinding it into a powder. Salep is a starch-like substance with a sweetish taste and a faint somewhat unpleasant smell. It is said to be very nutritious and is made into a drink or can be added to cereals and used in making bread etc. One ounce of salep is said to be enough to sustain a person for a day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Medicinal Uses:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Salep is very nutritive, astringent, expectorant and demulcent. It has been used as a diet of special value for children and convalescents, being boiled with water, flavoured and prepared in the same way as arrowroot. Rich in mucilage, it forms a soothing and demulcent jelly that is used in the treatment of irritations of the gastro-intestinal canal. One part of salep to fifty parts of water is sufficient to make a jelly. The tuber, from which salep is prepared, should be harvested as the plant dies down after flowering and setting seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description of Orchis mascula: The early Purple Orchis, common in English woods, is in flower from mid-April to mid-June.Bulb growing to 0.6m.A single flower-stem rises from the tuberous root, bearing flowers that as a rule are of a rich purple colour, mottled with lighter and darker shades, though often found of every tint from purple &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[647,655,32,31,654,653,652,656,649,648,650,651],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herba","tag-salabmisri","tag-arrowroot","tag-botany","tag-food-and-drink","tag-mucilage","tag-orchis","tag-orchis-mascula","tag-orchis-militaris","tag-salep","tag-salep-orchid","tag-sephardi-jewish-cuisine","tag-syrian-cuisine","latest_post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Orchis-mascula.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shaafiherbalcare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}