Lungwort Herb c/s

Botanical Name - Pulmonaria officinalis

Other Names -   Common Lungwort, Our Lady’s Milk Drops, Spotted Lungwort, Oak Lungs, Sage of Jerusalem, Herbe aux Poumons, Soldiers and Sailors, Spotted Dog, Joseph and Mary, Jerusalem, Cowslip and Bethlehem Sage.

Origin - Hungary

Typical Preparations - Honey Sweetened Tea, Tincture, Distilled Water Infusion,Vegetable Substitute

Flavor Profile - Bitter with a high mucilage content.

Culinary Usages - Lungwort can be substituted for spinach in some dishes, but as a vegetable the cooked leaves tend to be a bit slimy. Due to the mucilage, the best use of these leaves is as a thickening agent. Use them as a substitute for okra in West African and cajun cookery. 

In German it is called 'Lungenkraut'. In some languages in Eastern Europe, the plant derives its common name from a word of 'honey'. Like in Russian it is known as 'medunitza', while the Polish call it 'miodunka plamista' - both terms meaning 'honey' in the respective languages.

Lungwort is a herb in the Boraginaceae family, so is a relative of borage, comfrey, the alkanets, fragrant manjack and lasora as well as viper’s bugloss among many others. There is another plant called lungwort, (Lobaria pulmonaria) but that is a moss or lichen which is also called oak moss, because it grows on or under oak trees.

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