Platanthera bifolia

Platanthera bifolia
Family:Platanthera bifolia; Demulcent; Nutritive.
Common name:Butterfly orchid
Salep is very nutritive 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.

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