Chives (botanisch chives; Allium schoenoprasum L.) or grass allium is a spice plant from the family of the bulb plants (Alliaceae).

Description

Chives are a plant of several years and drive from a root bundle long sheets. Chives become 15 to 45 cm highly and form in the summer violet blooms.

Chives originate from the north; its origin lies in Canada and Siberia. During the ice age the Bering Strait was country (i.e. the sea level many lower), so that many Taxa occurred both in the northern America and in Siberia.

Location

Chives are to be found from valley situations to an altitude of 2600 m NN and prefer source moorlands, damp meadows and stony slopes. Chives are lime-loving.

Circulation area

It is assumed that chives originally come from central Asia. Today he comes however practically in the whole moderate widths wildly or verwildert forwards.

Vermehrung

The chives culture can be begun easily by sowing. Chives are a Dunkelkeimer. With 18 "°C the germ duration amounts to about 12 days. In addition, by division of the dried root bundle frequently new plants are pulled.

As a bad neighbour with the cultivation of chives asparagus is regarded.

Utilization

Differently than with other bulb plants only the aboveground plant parts are harvested by chives, whereby also the violet bloom is edible. The long sheets are cut off deeply and drive the whole year over after. The taste of chives is bulb-like, but substantially finer than for example with bulb or allium. Chives excluding freshly used as Beigabe for example to salads, egg foods, soups, or Quark.Er harmoniert well with parsley, Kerbel and Estragon and is well-known in this combination in the French kitchen as fines harsh.

Contents materials

Chives contain much Vitamin A, B and C. the Vitamin C content of the fresh plant amount to 130.5 mg per 100 g freshness weight. 100 g of the plant contain 6.0 g of ballast materials, 1.6 g of coal hydrates, 0.7 g fat, 3.6 g protein and 86 g water on average 27 kCal.

Chives in the Pflanzenheilkunde

From the Vitaminen chives contain mainly larger quantities of Vitamin A and C.Schnittlauch affect bacteriarestraining, energizing appetite and digesting and adjust carefully increased blood pressure, bend tumors and blood clumping forwards and lower the Cholesterinspiegel. Chives prevent the accumulation of water in the fabric and the formation of urine acid. It works and strengthens the digesting system and the cycle. Leonhart fox recommended in 16. Century chives as well as Weihrauch and vinegar to the Wundbehandlung and with drunkennessness.

Chives in the superstition

from chives flowers at the window all misfortune keeps away. At some places chives belong to the herbs, which one along-ate in the Green Thursday soup, so that one remained healthy the year over. The monks are to have cultivated chives also therefore so gladly in their monastery gardens, because he was considered as means against the Hexerei.

Etymologie

The name schoenoprasum sits down together out schoinos (Greek "‚Binse `) and prason (Greek "‚allium `), too German thus "‚to being EN allium `, and refers to the form of the sheets. The German name refers to the fact that by chives only the aboveground parts are harvested. From the German name the name for chives is derived, for example in the Czech one or in the Russian one shnit luk also in some slawischen languages ). The way of writing "chives "explains itself by the nomenclature, according to which plant names are separated by hyphen, with which the kind (in this case the kind allium) correctly is designated.

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