The sugar root (Sium sisarum), also Gierlen, or sugar-notice mentioned and belonged to family of the Apiaceae It is an age-old useful plant from Asia. The original game form is until Siberia common of the Caucasus. The plant becomes about 120 cm highly and is winter hard.

Use

Root vegetable

Primarily the plant is used as root vegetable, whereby it is far going in the nature form received. The meat tastes sweet and mehlig. The root meat contains 4-8% sugar (Sacharose), why she was cultivated much also in former times, when sugar was still rare and expensive.

Cure

In its 1543 published new Leonhart fox (1501-1555) designates, professor for medicine and Botanik, the "Sisern" as lovely and sweet, in the taste the gels equal carrots. "The Same powdered and in wine is taken well so He (Schluchzen) has and Grimmen in the body. Sisern make desire that for conjugal working, strengthen the heart, are useful those, thus very much vomited".

Nicholas Culpeper (1614-1645), an English physician and Astrologe, writes, the plant works "opening, cleaning and urine-floating". The root helps the liver and strengthens digesting. And like some other such as Sellerie or Giersch also the sugar root has aphrodisierende characteristics.

Historical

The sugar root probably came toward end of the Middle Ages over Russia to Europe.

During the Renaissance cakes and other fine courts from the sugar root are to have been served for the first time at English boards. Jacobus Theodorus "Tabernaemontanus" writes in its herb book of 1625: "It is the Keyser Tiberius, how Plinius LIB.19.CAP5.schreibet/had to eat such desire to this that it them all year at the Rhine stream order to let and in the Italiam lead let, then it seindt the stomach be useful and well". Here it concerns however probably a mistake with the Pastinake (Pastinaca sativa), likewise a since the sugar root was not domestic in Germany.

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