Bratoszewice

The resting snail is Cepaea nemoralis. Native to Europe or... Himalaya region, but now widely spread over oecumene. Possibly poisonous plant! The stems and seeds contain oxalic acid, saponins, and betadine alkaloid. Foraging plant. Edible plant - leaves raw or cooked, a very acceptable spinach substitute; seeds dried and ground into a meal and eaten raw or baked into a bread, seeds can also be sprouted and added to salads; young inflorescences cooked, a tasty broccoli substitute. Herbal plant - the whole plant is a very nutritious and healthy addition to the diet; the leaves are anthelmintic, antiphlogistic, antirheumatic, mildly laxative, odontalgic, an infusion is taken in the treatment of rheumatism, the leaves are applied as a wash or poultice to bug bites, sunstroke, rheumatic joints and swollen feet, whilst a decoction is used for carious teeth; the seeds are chewed in the treatment of urinary problems and are considered useful for relieving the discharge of semen through the urine; the juice of the stems is applied to freckles and sunburn; the juice of the root is used in the treatment of bloody dysentery; oil made from this herb is used as medicine, although authorities disagree on whether chenopodium oil is the oil of fresh, flowering, and fruiting parts of the plant or seed oil, despite serious safety concerns, people take chenopodium oil to kill roundworms and hookworms in the intestine. Useful plant - a green dye is obtained from the young shoots; the crushed fresh roots are a mild soap substitute.