Sremus (bear's onion, wild garlic) is a wild species from the onion family.

Leaves and bulbs are used in food. Young leaves are harvested from March to the end of May.

Sremus leaves are rich in vitamin C, glycosides, and sulfur compounds. Sremuš is often said to be a "killer of poisons" because of its incredible power to cleanse the body, primarily the digestive system, blood, bile, and liver. Its power is especially great in spring, when cleansing the body is most effective. The ingredients of sremuš bind fats from the blood, intestines and stomach and thus expel them from the body. If you introduce it into your regular diet or use drops of sremus, you will feel spring fatigue much less. There is an opinion that people would be completely healthy if they ate it every day.

Sremus contains sulfur, magnesium, manganese, iron, essential oils, carotene, vitamin B1, B2, niacin, folic acid and vitamin C (it has 14 times more than lemon).

With the help of sremus, you can eliminate headache and insomnia and make breathing easier in bronchitis. It has an antibacterial effect and helps wounds to heal faster.

It has been scientifically proven that it has a lot of phenolic compounds, so it has an antibacterial effect on Shigella, Escherichia coli, Proteus mirabilis and prevents infection of the intestinal mucosa.

Phenolic compounds also have an antioxidant effect, i.e. they destroy free radicals that damage our cells. These compounds relax the muscles of the small intestine and facilitate digestion. The production of good enzymes in the liver also increases.

Aline from sremuš has a mild anti-clotting effect, thus improving circulation and protecting the heart and brain from the possible formation of clots (if you have recently had a coronary, the risk of thrombus formation is lower).

Sremus tincture dissolved in some edible oil helps with rheumatic ailments and when your joints and muscles ache. Apply a thin layer or place a compress on the wrist.

If you are picking sremush yourself, it is very important to distinguish it from lily of the valley and snowdrop because they are extremely poisonous plants. An important difference when picking is that the sremusha leaf smells like garlic.

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